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Hi I'd recommend " How to Teach Vocabulary " by Scott Thornbury......published by Longman. It's excellent. If you want to investigate vocabulary learning strategies further then visit http://www.wordsurfing.co.uk The "Word Surfing" site looks at this topic in depth... and you should be able to find ...

Hi, "I've become very interested in blogs and blogging recently. I was wondering if anyone has used blogs with their students either as a reading activity or as somewhere for them to produce writing. Any ideas for how best to exploit this exciting medium?" asks Nik Peachey from the British Council. ...

Hi....

Here are just a couple of links that might point you in the right direction

http://iteslj.org/questions/

http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search/ukie? ... TOPICS&y=y

Hope they help

Will
http://www.wordsurfing.co.uk

Hi, I was on the British Council website this morning.... http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/ .... reading some interesting articles about the Lexical Approach. Then ;) ;) , I stumbled across THIS !!! http://www.dfilm.com/index_main.html Please have a look - and let others know too. There's lots of c...

Hi, Larry asks ... "What are some of the creative ways you may have found to talk with your relative beginner students (I, personally, am most interested in finding ways to talk to adult students, but ideas relating to young students would also be valuable) without "talking down" to them? What do yo...

Hi, Larry raises an important point here , I feel. STT vs TTT Isn't the real issue something like - how much positive Interaction Time there is in a class? Talking and listening might just be moving mouths and empty ears..... and what does it really matter who is talking as long as communication and...

Hi....just a few thoughts on the last few contributions Lorikeet "Most, however, are content to keep their errors as long as they are understood" ....yes, I'm sure that this is right. Not everyone wants to put effort into perfecting language skills - they have other priorities - family, job, money, ...

Hi Harzer! Thanks for your nice reply and amusing tale. It reminds me of an American poet friend of mine. Kenneth L. Brown. He would have laughed hysterically at seeing two people exchanging money over such an activity..... and with desperate tears of laughter running down his cheeks would have scre...

Hi, Maurice's post deals with one of the biggest problems connected to language learning.... and asks for PRACTICAL methods of dealing with "fossilization"..... More important , maybe, is to find practical methods of not creating it in the first place. The best way to give up smoking is not to start...

Hi Last night I came across a game called " 8 Letters in Search of a Word" in the internet. It's excellent - and can now be found at ... http://www.wordsurfing.co.uk/43682.html .... and then clicking on "Word Games". Plenty of other interesting vocabulary games can be found on this page - and I'm co...

Hi.... Here are just a couple of links that might point you in the right direction http://iteslj.org/questions/ http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search/ukie?p=ESL+CONVERSATION+TOPICS&y=y The top one is very useful generally. The second one was just the result of typing... ESL Conversation Topics ... into ...

Hi Harzer, Here's an old saying, I think it's some buddhist thought or something. It's about presents.... and insults, (or anything else negative) It goes something like this "If someone offers you a present and you don't accept it .... to whom does the present belong?" Anyway, I'm sure Stephen wasn...

Hi Roger, Yes, I think AGE definitely needs to be emphasised as well as level - .....age is absolutely crucial to the language learning process.... ...but I'm not so sure that grammar is being NEGLECTED these days.... ...and definitely don't feel that any neglect or "communicative approach" is the c...

Hi, I like the lexical approach - a lot I like the grammar-based approach - to some degree I like the rote learning approach - a little bit too sometimes I really dislike the rigid "this is the way we've always done it and this is the way we're going to keep on doing it" approach. Everything has it'...

hi Sian I think you mean where is the link to FUN2LEARN on the Word Surfing website?!? Right?!? Actually I was going to start a forum myself along similar lines as I think that they can be very important to "learner autonomy" - and the whole enjoyment and efficiency of the language learning process ...