Teaching English as a Foreign Language Online
Posted in Accents, ESL Facts & Figures, ESL statistics, Learning Language Teaching, Statistics on Feb 3rd, 2009
Source: The Bilingual Family: A Handbook For Parents by Edith Harding & Philip Riley, 1999, CUP. Over half of the world’s population is bilingual. This fact is usually surprising to many Europeans, who are under the impression that living with two or more languages is exceptional. (p. 27) What matters and what doesn’t in second [...]
Posted in Accents, Commonly Made Mistakes, Course Design on Oct 30th, 2008
I came across this book quite by chance. The title of the book – Learner English by M- Swan & B. Smith – has little to do with the contents at first sight (I did not expect to find detailed analyses of different languages in it as well as pragmatic lists of difficulties that learners [...]
Posted in Accents, Learning Language Teaching, Observations on Oct 8th, 2007
I am teaching elementaries this year – this is very unlike me for I find this level somewhat tedious to teach. To make matters worse, instead of two nationalities, I’ve got four – it is a real challenge, for I do understand what sort of problems Russians and Estonians might encounter in terms vocabulary, grammar or pronunciation, [...]
