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I hate all that learning styles crap too. It's just another excuse to blame teachers for students' failures and pile more unnecessary responsibility on us. There are so many aspects of language learning that you simply can't adapt to a kinesthetic-dominant learner, for example. The learner has to ad...

OK, OK! I take it back Revel. Sorry! But I'm still right! HA! And I don't skip over all your posts. I read the bits where I'm mentioned and ignore the rest. :lol: You looked at TWALT and decided you couldn't take me seriously, right? That's just my 'humourous' side. Don't knock it! It's all that's l...

UP! Just for Revel!

Well that's only fair Revel, after all I gloss over your posts amongst others. I rarely find anything worthy of interest or comment in them. I wrote TWALT for people just like you, by the way! You hate it because you see yourself in the parody, only for you it's serious teaching...or so you thought!...

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Vanity publisher? Ha ha! Nice try, Fluff, but ever so predictable!

What do we call a good English teacher? "Rover!" "Come here Rover! Be a good boy and be nice to all these students! Sit up, Rover! Beg, Rover! There's a good doggie! Play dead, Rover! Here's a treat! Rover! Class time Rover! Play deaf, Rover! Pretend they speak English well, Rover! Rover! Next class...

Well thank y'ol for your best wishes. Just a couple of points: (1) I don't care whether you read my books or not. I'm not writing for approval or necessarily for wealth, although I see no reason why I should not profit from information that I regard to be the best I have to offer. I'm simply passing...

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How about enlightening us instead of playing Mr Mysterious? Some of us come here to share our knowledge and experience. Oh, you mean my method based upon over 20 years of language learning, eight years of language teaching and as many years searching, researching and testing for more effective ways ...

No hamster, I haven't provided many examples of language that is ungrammatical because there would simply be no point. My response will be the same - strive for correction, correct all mistakes. The example I used was just off the top of my head. I am not writing any more tossy university linguistic...

Larry, I salute you!

You can be in my gang in the playground if you want.

Nobody has been complaining about language that is ("both") idiomatic and grammatical (two sides of the same coin, when you stop and think about it). The only complaining has been from you, about what we should do if language is ever 'idiomatic and ungrammatical'. My reply was in response to this: O...

Why do you think idiomatic language is ungrammatical, Londo? No, of course not, but some is. 'Long time no see' being a prime example. The point is, if it's idiomatic and ungrammatical how are you (the teacher and the student) going to know unless you have a solid grammar base to work from and to us...

Had such instances come up before, I would have responded to them. Of course idiomacity must be taken into account, but if you don't know what is grammatical then you can't recognise what isn't grammatical but is idiomatic. How do you do one of those smug smiley things? It is the fact that grammar i...