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Hello Nelly, I also provide my adult learners with structure and explain the grammar. They can understand it more, I just don't have them do 3 pages of...
Dear Constadina, After college, I went to Africa to teach English in Chad, but lost weight and grew sick. At 107 lbs, I decided to call it quits after three...
Dear Costadina, My credibility in this group depends upon my response to your question. He it is: Grammar describes how people use langage. Grammar is not a...
I think that intelligence has nothing to do with our 'internal biological clock'. It's not the case that one type of intelligence matures or whatever - though...
In the mist of a heated discussion, regarding learning types, intellegence, etc., I think we should all realize that our goal is the same: to help our students...
Hi George, Thanks, I was particularly interested in your closing sentences "I think practice should take at least 80-90 per cent of the total process,...
Hello again. I also agree that too much testing isn't good, at least in the beginning. With our younger students, we must concentrate on developing skills...
I'm not sure if I've got the point but since Lewis came up with his so-called lexical approach, everyone started hating grammar - at least, in words. I think...
I agree with you Will. My only concern is school administrations that insist on "graded" assessments. Teachers are pressured to cater to standards provided by...
Hello everyone, I just would like to ask a few "silly questions". First, can grammar be seperated from vocabulary? Aren't they somehow connected? When we...
A humble comment: Grammar is the description of how a language is used. Vocabulary is a tool to use grammar correctly. Vocabulary is the pieces to make...
I think that in the business world, perfect English means effective English, being an effective negotiator, or an effective team manager or a brilliant ...
Corinne Wilhelm
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Dec 6, 2003 6:41 am
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To close this conversation and go on to something else, hopefully, I just want to say a few things. Firstly, I believe that you don't have to know "perfect...
... I teach in a US high school. I am required to give grades. But I am concerned that my students do more than earn a grade. I want them to develop learning...
For a discussion on the issue of meaningful learning such as you pose go into the following group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/meaningful_learning/ NELLIE...
Well, as for grammar skills and vocabulary acquisition, I have a page at http://english.specialist.hu/a3/a2/d1.htm , where a way of practising grammar and...
Hi George, The layout of your sample page is interesting .... and the thoughts behind it have some similarities to the "WS Grammar" project that I mentionned...
Hi Corinne - I'm very glad that you have found the time to join our discussion group...I know that you are busy with our things! Anyway, thanks for raising an...
Thanks Will, one of my concerns about using technology for training, particularly language training is the lack of flexibility, for example I once did an oral...
Corinne Wilhelm
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Dec 8, 2003 3:57 pm
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Hello George, I agree with Will, your approach to using grammar and vocabulary sounds good. I going to give it a try with my students. I like the idea of...
There's one thing I still don't understand, why is it that people are complaining about translations and memorization? Is it because that's all their students...
I have nothing against translation, but rather the way students use it. When they translate words, its not a problem, when they translate sentences though,...
I know what you mean about syntax, what I try to do if students are having a tough time 'getting it' is, I'll put together a sentence in their native language...
Corinne Wilhelm
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Dec 10, 2003 11:21 am
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I think translation is a natural process that adult learners turn to for obvious reasons but translation can land your students in a big hole of ...
Corinne Wilhelm
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Dec 10, 2003 11:39 am
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But then if your students are having problems using the TL (morpho)syntax correctly it's probably because they still haven't understood it or assimilated it -...
I completely agree with your point of view. Translation should be seen as a help to understand a message,speak, read and write. I think that translation is a...
Hi Costadina and Will, Thanks for your remarks on my message (and thanks to Nellie, too). The idea of practising like that came when the first child in the...
Matthew here, no teaching credentials, just an instinct for language. Thinking in a second language IS important, but not so important that it should be...
Translation is fine, as long as you don't try to translate everything "word for word", then you come up with some really strange sentences, which have no...
