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Tara B wrote: What ages are the EFL students & teachers at your school? Thank you for the question. Our students are from 4 1/2 up to dear-old age. No age-limit. And there is no age-limit for the difficulties either. The teacher trainees start college at 18 or above and after the initial 300 hours o...

Stephen Jones wrote: May I make a suggestion. You post here examples where you feel 'traditional grammar' is inadequate and I will attempt to explain them using mainstream explanations. Start off by posting only two or three examples at a time, to allow for space to explain the basics. Hello Mr Step...

Stephen Jones wrote: May I make a suggestion. You post here examples where you feel 'traditional grammar' is inadequate and I will attempt to explain them using mainstream explanations. Start off by posting only two or three examples at a time, to allow for space to explain the basics. Hello Mr [Pro...

Dear Stephen Jones Thank you for the possibility for learning about English Grammar. Our InterNet provider will set it alright for Firefox. For the time being please use IE. I must admit, I don't find the two initial presentations that easy to follow. The Power Point Presentations are much clearer b...

Hello Lorikeet

Thanks for the feedback. I'll approach our InterNet provider to set it right for Firefox.

Leslie

Hello Joshua2004 Thank you for your comments. I'm very happy about the parts you understand and partly agree with. I want to reply to the part you don't understand and / or you don't agree with in more details. I'm going to write in a style that we call 'tandem writing'. It makes it possible to reac...

Hello I know that I’m not in the right place since the topic I want to write about is strictly speaking not Applied Linguistics. I also know that I’m at the best place since the topic I want to write about is a distant relative of Applied Linguistics, and as far as I know, you are the most active Fo...

"I clicked on some subjects and the same answer appears: Critical error. Could not be connected with database."

Hello

I have a different problem with some forum topics.

Too many extremely good topics cool down too soon with nobody to react on them.

Leslie

Hello I would add one more element to make the cycle more complete and it is training. We have been training teachers for the EDEXCEL - University of London Diploma in Teaching English for Speakers of Other Languages and some 100 candidates have been doing it online. If we do not start with the trai...

Hello

As far as I know, this is the only active discussion forum on the topic.

I would be more than happy to discuss ICT & ESP with you and others may wish to join us.

Leslie

Hello Why not try a program with a very reasonable price, i. e. it is FREE. It is [ http://ilsgroup3.blogspot.com/ ] and through the option 'view my complete profile' they can move on to all the other blogs. Students can use it free and they only pay if / when they need direct teacher intervention /...

Hello

We use a lot of exercises in our NetEnglish program

[ http://www.ilsgroup.hu/ilsgroup.php?in=docs/NetEnglish ]

and by far the most effective is on the line of guided writing [ parallel sentences - parallel paragraphs - free composition.

Leslie

Hello Precious We have not had too many Chinese students in our school. I have had three of them in my class and they were very similar in their attitude to the language, to learning, to peers, and to the teachers. They have all viewed English as Chinese language translated into English. To start wi...