The document discusses traditional and modern methods for studying English. The traditional method involves listening to teachers, reading grammar books, and studying word lists, while the modern method emphasizes interacting with the language through conversations, message boards, and noting word stress and intonation. It also provides suggestions for practicing the four skills of reading, writing, listening, and speaking, such as reading interesting materials, interacting on message boards, and watching TED talks with subtitles. The document encourages not being shy about practicing speaking and asking questions.
What do your words say about you?
Active Outcomes share their approach to writing high-impact, attention grabbing text to engage and enthrall your audience!
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This PPT is intended to be used with an intermediate (or possibly pre-intermediate, given some careful pre-teaching) class. I used it in my first week as a motivational tool. It allows for the students to have plenty speaking opportunities. See http://www.davidteaching.blogspot.com for the full lesson.
What do your words say about you?
Active Outcomes share their approach to writing high-impact, attention grabbing text to engage and enthrall your audience!
Interested? See what else we can do at: www.activeoutcomes.co.uk
This PPT is intended to be used with an intermediate (or possibly pre-intermediate, given some careful pre-teaching) class. I used it in my first week as a motivational tool. It allows for the students to have plenty speaking opportunities. See http://www.davidteaching.blogspot.com for the full lesson.
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A talk I gave on how to prepare TOEFL, invited by NCTU Language Teaching and Research Center.
How I prepared my TOEFL (scored 112), and how you can prepare it.
Pragmatics in the EFL classroom: An introductionJerry Talandis
Here are the slides from my presentation at the JALT 2013 national conference, in Kobe, Japan on October 27th. Here's the abstract:
If pragmatic competence is indeed a crucial part of successful communication (Murray, 2009), it follows that language learners need both instruction of pragmatic routines and awareness raising in order to achieve proficiency in a second language (Charlesbois, 2004). The field itself is quite broad, however, encompassing areas such as speech acts, discourse organization, sociolinguistics, and conversational structure, implicature, and management- all areas not traditionally addressed in language teaching curricula (Bardovi-Harlig & Mehan-Taylor, 2003). For English teachers in Japan largely unfamiliar with pragmatics yet interested in learning more, guidance is needed in exploring its many benefits for improving oral communication skills. This workshop will therefore aim to make pragmatics more accessible and practical by defining the field in lay terms, making a case for its inclusion within an oral communication curriculum for low-intermediate and above learners, and providing specific ideas on which aspects to focus upon and how to teach them. Participants will have an opportunity to experience and reflect on various activities that introduce, practice, and assess progress in building pragmatic competency. Space will also be included for participants to discuss their teaching contexts and exchange ideas on how to effectively introduce pragmatics to their students.
References:
Bardovi-Harlig, K. & Mehan-Taylor, R. (2009). Teaching pragmatics. English Teaching Forum 2003(41:3).
Charlebois, J. (2004). Pragmatics: The heart and soul of linguistic proficiency. The Language Teacher, 28(4).
Murray, N. (2009). Rethinking pragmatics pragmatics for the classroom: A deductive approach. PAC7 at JALT2008 Conference Proceedings.
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5. Advantages of Traditional Method
• Comfortable
• It does work
• Voluntary, free reading is the best
thing you can do
Disadvantages of Traditional Method
• Listening and Speaking are hard
• Slow progress
• Language doesn’t feel natural
6. Modern Method
•Interacting with the language
is really helpful
•Conversations
•Message Boards Bill eats apples.
That movie was
Bill. eats. apples.
interesting.
•Word Stress, Intonation, and Bil-lea-tsapples.
Timing are key for That movie was…
listening/speaking skills interesting.
•Note and practice these like
you would note and practice
a new word
7. Ways to Practice
(Reading)
•Read things that interest you.
•Read things that are just a little
hard.
•Talk with someone about it or write
about it.
8. Ways to Practice
(Writing)
•Reading is the best thing for
getting better at writing.
•Interact with people.
•Message boards are great.
•So is Wikipedia.
•Buy a TOEFL or GMAT prep
book. and follow the writing
“rules”.
9. Ways to Practice
(Listening)
TED.COM is AMAZING
1.Watch a Video
2.Watch with English Subtitles
3.Read the Transcript
4.Watch with Korean Subtitles
5.Watch without Subtitles
6.Write a Comment
7.Wait a Week
8.Watch again, and again, and again…
10. Ways to Practice
(Speaking)
•Don’t be shy. (“How’s it
going today?”)
•Note interesting word
stress, timing, and
intonation points and
practice them.
•EnglishCentral.com
•RachelsEnglish.com
11. So what about the MBA?
•You’re going to improve and it’s going to get easier
•Don’t be shy about asking clarification questions
•Read the chapters, etc. before you get to class
•Focus on the introductions and outlines of writing
assignments
•Set specific goals. (“I want to be better” doesn’t
count)
Editor's Notes
Well, the best is to talk with us foreigners more. If you just start saying hi and asking “how’s your day?” that’ll go a long way. Otherwise, voxopop.com is a nice site. Note and practice common shortenings. Some word stress, timing, and intonation handouts. EnglishCentral.com is a nice site too Rachel’s English is another nice site