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Chem i'd like anyone's thoughts on the idea that TESOL is just another form of imperialist power.....esp with what's going on in the world these days. anyone else out there with a guilty conscience?? Such a notion is absurd. Imperialism has to do with Politics, not with learning a language. Why not ...

You are posting about problems in American public schools involving native English-speaking children. I am not arguing for or against the points you mention. I am simply stating that the threads you are referencing are out of place here, in a thread about teaching large conversation classes in Chin...

Roger, are we, perhaps, trying to be aloof, magisterial and a little dictatorial? How so? In what way was I dictatorial? I have the distinct impression you are a Chinese person, at least, you are someone from relatively outside the TEFL field. I have a TEFL Cert, although it hasn't helped me at all ...

D Doesn't Stand for Disrespect The above article points out that student mishavior is related to ineffective teaching methods. If one wants to keep students attention one has to learn the proper methods of teaching. Unfortunately, the proper teaching methods can no longer be found in the public sch...

Please see my earlier post:

Why Phonetic Based Teaching

I'd recommend the Spalding Method. The proven research-based method that has helped millions of children for more than forty years. Expanded, updated, and easy to use. Significantly improves student classroom performance. Dramatically increases standardized test scores. For classroom, home, special ...

Linda Schrock Taylor on Reading for sucess Teaching and learning with Phonics Word Guessing Illiterates Linda Scrhrock Taylor lives in Michigan. She is a free-lance writer and the owner of "The Learning Clinic," where real reading, and real math, are taught effectively and efficiently. She has been ...