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- Fri Oct 28, 2005 8:53 am
- Forum: English for Specific Purposes
- Topic: What does the "english for specific purposes" mean
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6726
English for specific purposes or ESP needs not only social English for normal communications, but the technical language for specific occupations. So Medical English means learning to communicate with patients, relatives, and health professionals at all levels, and to know, understand, and use medic...
- Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:31 am
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: does EFFECTIVE pronunciation pedagogy exist?!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7407
kk, you're on the right track at the end of your post. Tell students to listen to tapes of English, and record into a seperate recorder or computer, then do A/B and B/A listening. Tell them how terrible anyone's voice sounds at first when they hear it, but get used to it so they don't get scared off...
- Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:52 am
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: How do you pronounce "representamen" ?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5753
- Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:46 am
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Thick Indian Accents
- Replies: 7
- Views: 23145
- Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:43 am
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: reduced final consonant clusters (dropped final /t/)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15102
A different problem. My Chinese students all hang on to the final consonant, so 'eat' becomes 'eater' with a short 'er', 'dog' is 'dogger' 'that' is 'thatter' etc. I have to teach them that when a 't' or 'd' is followed by a consonant, to run the two words together, with no pause at all, eg ' the do...
- Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:10 am
- Forum: English for Specific Purposes
- Topic: Beauty Salon English
- Replies: 9
- Views: 31558
May not be what you are looking for, but for Oral English for my students I buy second hand or outdated fashion mags for about 5Y, cut out all pages with fashion styles, cosmetics etc etc, and hand them out for the girls to look at, and ask them to discuss what they think. A good start for communica...
- Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:11 am
- Forum: English for Specific Purposes
- Topic: English for nurses
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5134
Depends on what you intend to be the endpoint of your teaching, and to whom. For China, there is a need, as most of the nurses want to go overseas, but the Chinese Nursing qualification is not recognised, so they need IELTS at 6'ish, and often do further language training in the Uni at great expense...
- Mon Aug 15, 2005 1:43 am
- Forum: English for Specific Purposes
- Topic: just started... pretty unsure
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3055
An open question like this is impossible to answer. You should give student ages, class size, prior knowledge of English, texts offered etc, to get a useful reply. However, start very simple, get their confidence, then get answers in short phrases to pick up grammar and context. Keep it to stuff the...
- Sat Jul 23, 2005 8:42 am
- Forum: English for Specific Purposes
- Topic: Medical English Teaching Jobs
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5181
Search the websites for any medical teaching jobs in China. Many universities and schools are asking for medical English teachers, rather than nursing terminology, there is a shortage of FTs. Do you want schools? Some teach English nursing as a programme, so you finish up teaching Oral English and M...
- Sat Jul 16, 2005 9:09 am
- Forum: English for Specific Purposes
- Topic: nursing college - mixed levels - no time for hw - - text?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4922
Hi, I have just replied to one on nursing training in Thailand, some of the info may be of use. Start simple, find out the knowledge level of students, group them accordingly if you can, and have fun. Role play in two's or fours is important, use the best students to set an example, then work down t...
- Sat Jul 16, 2005 9:01 am
- Forum: English for Specific Purposes
- Topic: Teachers of English for Nurses Thailand
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7752
HI, I am teaching English and Medical English to student nurses in China, the big problem is that they have little experience in people skills, so something like consent forms is difficult. As suggested, get them used to form filling, simple forms, then to understand what a consent form is, then go ...