In pursuit of learning teaching skills teachers face a daunting task in determining actual career promoting teaching skills that are necessary to learn compared to those with sole purposes of learning for the time being...
Some time ago, talking to a vietnamese friend, I asked something like, “Do you still have to study much about Karl Marx at school?” He looked very puzzled...
When teaching phonetics or phonology, the biggest question I have seen teachers face is whether to teach a bottom up approach based on graphemes and blends, or whether to use a top down approach based on sight-reading...
While traveling with my husband in Asia, I used a program designed for journalists covering the Olympic Games in beijing called “Say it Right in chinese,” which came with a book and a CD...
The teaching of idioms and slang is a subject that is left unexplored in many english courses and it is definitely something that only the more advanced students would be able to accurately understand...
By overlooking materials from an online tefl course, a text of a first-hand account of teaching in thailand, and a critical study of successful methods of teaching english to thai students, this paper will explain common obstacles that thai students encounter when learning english, as well as an introduction to a number of methods best suited to cater to those unique problems...
According to a Nottingham University prospectus, the role adopted by a teacher 'very much depends on the level of study, how we want students to develop, and the type of teaching activities we are engaging in...
Students who are learning english as a foreign language at any level need to have access to a learning environment which is vibrant, purposeful, challenging and supportive...
“italy’S FOREIGN LANGUAGE EMERGENCY”, “english KNOWLEDGE: IN SPITE OF INVESTMENTS, italy’S STILL AMONG THE LAST”, “italianS STUDY english BUT MORE THAN HALF DO NOT SPEAK IT”...