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:D I'm really very happy that you are interested in Chinese. My advice for you is since Chineses is considered to be the most difficult language to learn in the world, you should be ready to suffer a lot in learning it. This language does not have gendre, tense, sex etc. Some people even thind it do...

I'm an English major from China. I just found it strange that nowadays many people dislike literature. They think books are boring and they cannot calm down to read books writen in both English and Chinese. One reason may be that there are not many books worth reading recently. However, we are not t...

I'm an English major from China and I have taken young adult literature for one semester. I think the following books are very interesting and worth reading: Nothing but the truth (by AVI) Are you there God, It's me, Magret! (Judy Bloom) Hatchet The outsiders (by S.H. Histon) A Dday no pigs would di...

I'm an English major from China. My foreign teacher often asks four of us to form a group and gives us four piece of paper, which contain different version of one event. For example, who is to blame if the students find the school is boring? Four of us may play different roles, such as teachers, par...

My advice for you is to get a dictionary, maybe Lonmand Dictionary, which will give you a list of word of difference. Maybe your topic is too large, I'ma fraid. British and American English are different in grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, intonation,spelling,etc. If I were you, I'll narrow down ...

Thank you for your help. I've tried on google and other websets, but it's a pity I can only find some papers of peer correction in writing of ESL students in senior high school or papers by native speakers who done this in their own country. I've tried that web and I got some hints.Some of them can ...

I think you can design certain games in your lesson. For esample, guessing game. You give students several questions and they have a competition. Or you may ask them to guess a name of an object according to your description. The losers will sing a song or tell the whole class a joke.

I'm an English major from China. In my college, there are several foreign teachers from all around the world. The foreign teachers in our department mainly teach oral English. They just encourage us to talk more with little correction. Some of us find the oral class rather boring. Although their pro...

I'm an English major from China. My scores in writing is comparetively good since the teacher always ask us to do peer correction in writing. However, I become nervous in the examination. :roll: So I'd like to do a research in peer correction in wtrriting and I'll use questionaire. I'm not sure wher...

I'm an English major in China and I'm going to be an English teacher in a few months. Now I'm goning to write an papper about peer correction in writing, and my target students are English majors in a Chinese university(my classmates). However, I don't know how to design the questionaire. Can anyone...