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Tweet “I am a boy and you are a girl – please repeat after me,” says the English language teacher. The unlikely setting for the class is the remote eastern Afghan village of Kodi Khel, against a backdrop of the White Mountains of the Hindu Kush, reports the BBC. In 2001 the White Mountains saw [...] Tweet United Kingdom: Speed-dating techniques have been adopted by a Cheltenham school to give pupils a taster course in languages, notes the BBC. Youngsters at Pate’s Grammar worked against the clock to learn a variety of words and phrases in languages such as Hindi, Portuguese, Thai and Filipino. The approach is normally used by busy [...] Tweet There are some controversial questions which to some extent may never be satisfactorily answered, suggests lexiophiles.com. One important question which falls under this category is the following: What is the hardest language to learn? ‘When I went to school we had to choose between French and Latin. All the students who decided in favor [...] Tweet VANCOUVER, CANADA: The B.C. Court of Appeal has found that a two-month jail sentence was unfit after it imposed on a foreign student who faked records to stay in Canada. The B.C. Court of Appeal substituted a sentence of 17 days of “time served” for international student Shihao Hupang, now 20. “In my view, [...] Tweet South Korea: What is the future of English language teaching? The answers appear to be more students taking more exams and using more technology in the classroom, suggests the Korea Times. However, the question is whether this is really a surprise to anyone working in an ESL or EFL environment like Korea. Read on… [...] Tweet United Kingdom: It’s finally happened; the fingerprinting of overseas students for biometric identity cards has begun for those extending their visas, notes BBC news. This is the first phase of tighter visa restrictions which will eventually affect more than 300,000 people applying to study in the UK each year. The tougher rules are intended [...] Tweet Malaysia: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad yesterday defended his decision as prime minister to teach Mathematics and Science in English in schools. “We have to master the learning of these subjects in English first. Right now, all the research in science and technology is written in English.” He said that learning the subjects in English [...] Tweet Sarah McCarthy-Fry said girls could be put off by boys in the classroom and separating them for lessons could be the answer, reports the Daily Telegraph. In her first interview since replacing Lord Adonis in the Prime Minister’s recent reshuffle, she said: “Girls do much better in science in single-sex classes. They sometimes feel [...] Tweet For the majority of TESOL teachers, getting the kind of car that suits their particular lifestyle choices may take longer and require that bit more saving for than it does for people in other walks of life. Nonetheless, there’s no harm in doing a bit of research and reading up on that car you’ve [...] Tweet After decades of hair-splitting over an appropriate methodology for teaching the English Language, particularly among the young, the Sri Lankan state has hit on what seems to be a workable, practical solution to the apparently complex problem. I’ll believe that when it slaps me in the face. Read the full story… Sphere: Related Content  |
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