You can set the sort order of messages? Just click on the link in the date column. Your preferences will be remembered, so you don't have to do it again when you return.
Hello there: I got a letter from Will re the WS Cards. He writes: "I'm wanting to make things available on pdf files but can't do this myself here at the...
Re: [wordsurfing] Digest Number 101Hello Diane: Thank you very much for your letter! Please contact Will McCulloch a.s.a.p. You may also check out his WS...
Hi Sergei and Will! Regarding producing materials in .pdf format: You might try the "Open Office" software. Open Office is easy to use if you are familiar...
Hi Diane, Many thanks for your mail and pdf file this morning.... fantastic – but, unfortunately, I failed to upload it to the WS website ( and I'm not even...
Does anyone in the group have any strong views about the relative importance given to direct grammar instruction and testing at different stages in the...
Hello, I have always wondered what was the right time to start teaching grammar. I used to think that the sooner the better, but found that if I started too...
I agree that vocabulary-based communication is perhaps the most important feature of present day language learning and so we shouldn't go too far in overdoing...
Hi George, I liked your web page – thanks. Simple example sentences following a similar pattern. This sort of approach – without a lot of testing – seems...
Dear Will, Thank you very much for your efforts to educate the users with very impressive projects. I'll surf the stuff and try it. Thanks again Will. With...
Hi all! Does anyone out there agree that pronunciation "is often left to the wayside of our teaching" (Ciancio, 2002)? And, if so, why does that happen? And...
Hi, A very good question indeed Marcus. Normally we don't discuss on this topic as we assumed that the English pronunciation varies from one mother tongue to...
Hello, I have always felt that there are always as many ways of pronouncing words as there are people to pronounce them. With as many countries speaking...
Dear all, I certainly agree that intelligibility is what matters *most*. However, I also believe that someone's pronunciation affects their listening skills to...
Hi, Marcus! ... wayside of our teaching" >(Ciancio, 2002)? And, if so, why does that happen? And how should pronunciation be taught? ... I am not an ESL...
Hi Marcus, thanks for raising a very interesting and important topic. I absolutely agree with the value that you attach to a vital area. Your observation about...
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/about.html The above link shows the placement of the mouth parts during the production of various English words and...
Hi everyone At the school at which I am Director of Studies, in China, all teachers use the phonemic chart when teaching vocabulary and pronunciation. They...
Hi Diane, Many thanks for your posting and useful link which has now been added to the WS site at http://www.wordsurfing.co.uk/47352.html in the pronunciation...
When English borrowed a foreign word or phrase, it often re-spelled the borrowed item so that the result looked like common English words. For example, Aramaic...
<<<Does this type of transliteration happen in other languages?<<< Dear Sir, None of the transliterations you describe occured anywhere else but in your...
Hi Izzy and Frank, I find your messages quite valuable - especially as regards Frank's stating that the transliterations in question are but a game of...
Hi all, I just started a group on "Nederlands NT2", Dutch as a Second Language: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nederlands_nt2/ "This is a forum for anybody...
Hi all, I just started a group on "Nederlands NT2", Dutch as a Second Language: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nederlands_nt2/ "This is a forum for anybody...
Dear lovers of English, I have found an interesting and amazingly wonderful English website: www.nonstopenglish.com On nonstopenglish.com students can: -...
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Years ago, before CDs and a whole lot of other things had been invented, I owned a program called Vocabulary Management System. It was really simple to operate...
