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After a year and a half, i think you know each other well. She must understand you well too in English. Just go with your gut. You know when she is testing you so just laugh and point it out to her. it is great that she wants to be the teacher, especially if she does it in English. She probably does...

I found they are always impressed if you include a short but effective grammar lesson. Use as many visual aids as possible. I use the chalk board if available but carry a special pen that writes on windows.

Wherever I was, I would search the library or bookstores or bookstalls for children's stories from that place. Sometimes you can only find them in the home language and then I would get my language teacher to help me translate them. The children usually know the stories in their own language and so ...

Chomsky wrote a colleague of mine in Mongolia and they had a great discussion about one topic they were both interested in. I would hesitate to say that all linguists would do that but it is worth a try if you have a good question or problem. There is a Journal of Chinese Linguistics and an Internet...

Why don't you email Halliday and ask him about it. He taught in China and did his PhD is about cdiffeerent dialects there. I am sure he would keep up with what is being studied and knowing humans, someone is doing something.

Chia Suan Chong Part 4

But you are saying this from the point of view of an English as a first language speaker and probably a good student. Why can't we study language like we do anything else in the world just to see if there is something interesting there. I get as excited by a new article in the field as by a new disc...

I googled exophoric ellipsis and got an interesting paper bry G Phillups but can't seem to copy the Internet address - sorry. There are a lot of references in the paper, I think this is important because students who are studying have to understand this to properly read what they need to study and a...

I had my students write books in their own language with all the words that they normally heard or said for a week. They can tape their conversatioins or just get together in groups and act out scenarios so they remember what they usually say. Then we worked on translating to English. They were ofte...

One of the contributors named Kennan has written a lot on all aspects of learning English but there is one on grammar. Just type 'Kennan' in the search box at the top and you read all 45 of his posts

You could use a mobile microphone. But if the class is that big, some people will probably still be bored when other students speak. I never understood that myself because you can learn a lot from your peers. We are thoroughly trained to think the teacher is the only one worth listening to I guess. ...

Ask him. If he has made it to Engineering he has developed some strategies. Everyone with dyslexia is different so he will have some different ways of learning but obviously he is successful. You can look on the many sites for dyslexia for tips. There is an organization for teachers with tips and id...

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