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: -...
Thank you *very much*! =) ... Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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...
I have wondered for some time if it would be possible to accelerate considerably the learning of foreign language vocabulary by making use of hypnosis. It...
Hello everybody, I have some students preparing for exams. I need some ideas on how to help them make a notebook that will help them prepare for voc. that...
Hi Costadina, The WS notebooks aren't really designed to simply try to aid the memory of a large number of selected words in the short- term in order to pass...
Hi - the following article by Shaun Dowling about lexical notebooks will, I hope, be of great interest to other members of this group - and I look forward to...
Hi all, I teach ESL and have been interested in the idea of the lexical notebooks. I've told several of my students about them and encouraged them to begin one...
Diane Research suggests that keeping a vocabulary notebook is really important in order to learn vocabulary most effectively. However, it does take a lot of...
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Thanks Will. I'll try to read the text. Regards Delinnia Will McCulloch <wslesson@...> wrote: Hi - the following article by Shaun Dowling about lexical...
