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- Tue May 18, 2010 9:56 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Breaktime!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 29351
- Tue May 18, 2010 9:52 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Do the Brits have a corner on the grammar book market?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10309
- Tue May 18, 2010 9:50 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: What do you think?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5130
- Fri May 14, 2010 8:36 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Is it true that Azar, Murphy and Swann are the biggies?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4681
- Fri May 14, 2010 1:11 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Indentation Nazism
- Replies: 14
- Views: 111320
Indentation Nazism
I have been quite hot on putting indentation arrows at the start of paragraphs in my marking recently. Is it always necessary? Are the habits of computer based writing spilling over onto the hand-written page? Would you obey the sometimes heard rule "NO indentation after a title" when typing? Writin...
- Fri May 14, 2010 1:01 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Complex? Simple?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 14501
Complex? Simple?
Right, having cleared that up for Fluff, here's my problem. My houseguests returned from a long day of shopping and went straight to bed. No, not literally. This is the example W.R. Smalzer uses to introduce the term "simple sentence". It's not the one I would choose, since it has a tricky "double h...
- Fri May 14, 2010 12:53 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Breaktime!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 29351
- Sun Apr 25, 2010 10:32 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Was Wall Street Institute the first to use computers?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4958
ESL is a huge and diverse global industry, and most ESL people don't have very good general knowledge about it - the sources aren't very good to get that, for my money. Reputations are localized, and mostly negative. Computers are not necessarily used "effectively" anywhere in the classroom, though ...
- Sun Apr 25, 2010 7:32 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: fanboys
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9104
I'm also fairly partial to the comma-as-pause school of thought, but yes, academia doesn't seem much in favour (Mr.Pullum attacked the idea very recently on LL, I seem to recall). I think that clearly very many native writers use commas that way, because they don't know clause from gauze for one thi...
- Sun Apr 25, 2010 9:37 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: fanboys
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9104
fanboys
The UK university I work for gives foreign students a US book which teaches the FANBOYS rule, which states you should have a comma before for, and, but, etc (all conjuctions) which separate clauses. (My mother taught the polar opposite). That's a rotten rule for the UK, I'm sure, but does it have an...
- Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:56 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Silent Way
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7377
I cannot locate my readings, I'm afraid, Ibrahim. I have been (sorta) allowed into the ivory towers back in the old UK, you'll all probably be disgusted to hear, and curiously even here nobody seems to make use of "the silent way" we were all trained in. They rather seem to favour the pompous and bo...
- Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:46 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Was Berlitz the first school to use total immersion?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 27186
Direct method has no real meaning. This is what the collective brain of humanity says: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_method_(education) Sounds just like any typical modern ESL really. As ever, the most important thing is to bash the process of carefully translating sentences out your native la...
- Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:22 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: too or either
- Replies: 16
- Views: 44188
Korea mixes you up more than Spain I think. I'll finally be leaving soon though. And region is important too. I have you down as Home Counties - I can't remember if you ever said. I think that "wrong" is something you wouldn't use yourself in the same context and wasn't used simply because the user ...
- Sun Feb 21, 2010 5:49 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: too or either
- Replies: 16
- Views: 44188
I'm sure your ability to intuitively spot what is not the norm in standard British English is better than mine Juan. However I doubt you or anyone else have eyebrows inside, and unless the wincing that experts mention is meant to have the force of "wrong!!" then I don't know why they feel the need t...
- Fri Feb 19, 2010 5:47 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: too or either
- Replies: 16
- Views: 44188
Astonishingly, that bending before pure unexamined intuition currently often seems to be the "correct" academic attitude to take about wrongness. For one thing though, US English often grates on British English ears, even when we are trying not to let it happen. They are big and brash and we are sma...