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An interesting assessment. If I understand right this means there is a shortage of Spanish-language teachers and too many English teachers.

Corey

Hi,

There is a good book by H. Douglas Brown on strategies for learners. The publisher is Pearson. I believe the name is "Classroom Strategies" but I'm not sure.

Good luck,

Corey

Hi,

Contact the company that supplies your books. They usually have posters and other things that they give away for free.

Good luck,

Corey

I'm not sure about how great the internet has affected English. It has brought in new words however I think with time many will fade from the language. A few will become ingrained. In grammatical terms, I'm not really sure if the 'net will consolidate various forms of English, fuse them together, fr...

I'm not sure what happened in the last thread you talked about but I have learned a language "top-down" and I also believe it is a better way to teach a language. In fact, I think it is the basis for much of modern communicative language teaching theory.

Corey

You mean you use one NI book for 15 weeks or all four books?

Corey

Wow - you must be good if you can get a course to like you!! :shock: You are probably right about the situation in Germany but in many other countries (any in Latin America for example) qualified teachers are harder to find - more if it is required that they be native speakers. The money just isn't ...

they do not have to like a person they just have to learn It helps the learning a whole lot if the students like the teacher/instructor. There is a whole body of evidence linking better learning and happy/relaxed students. Back to the original question... The first step IMO is to find out exactly w...

Why don't you ask for the meaning of life!!!

Just kidding.

That's a lot of work. All I can say is read some of the other posts here.

shmooj wrote:So.... what's to report. Any news on this new job?

One-time poster.

Hi Shmooj,

Would you believe I caught a fugitive by checking. Very important to check references.

As for the people who can barely speak English - that's what the trash can is for.

Corey

Go to a directory (like DMOZ) for a particular country and then go to the specific category and run through the sites and collect the data.

Good luck,

Corey

Since you're new - don't try to change things too fast. Take some time to get a feel for what's really going on.

Good luck,

Corey

TKS wrote:I think the school owners should take more initiative and get the curriculum for the teachers.

I disagree. Unless it is a small school the owner should hire a good DoS or Academic director to do it.

I don't know of any decent school that would have a teacher write the curriculum.