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The ‘clown prince’ of junk food to teach English to young Swedes

david — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:30:13 +0000

It’s headlines like this that make you feel like you’re fighting a losing battle. English-language worksheets featuring bloody Ronald McDonald, extolling the virtues of fast food, is being used by some Swedish schools, ‘to the chagrin of educators, outraging some parents, and apparently ‘unbeknownst’ to the company‘ according to newspaper Svenska Dagsbladet.

The paper, as reported by the digital journal, has reported that several schools have been using these worksheets as homework assignments. The concerns are not so much about the brief history of McDonald’s in Britain, rather that it addresses health concerns by suggesting students can take a side order of carrots instead of French fries with their Big Mac.

That’s right, folks. People are complaining about McDonald’s trying to get kids to eat vegetablez.

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English education Swedish style

david — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:46:04 +0000

Sweden and South Korea: ‘Today the English language level of the Swedish population is among the highest of all non-English-speaking countries in Europe. In Sweden we never imported English teachers from abroad,’ exlaims Ylva Olausson in the Korea Herald. ‘We never even considered it as an alternative. I believe the main reasons for this are on one hand that you can be very good at a language but still not good at teaching. It is very hard for me to understand why in Korea a lot of people with influence think that they can pick language teachers from the street and put them in the classroom, and it will work as long as the teachers speak native English.’

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Germany and Sweden: How Good Is the English Written by Swedish Advanced Learners?

david — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:21:46 +0000

Monika Mondor describes what is characteristic for the written English of advanced learners and examines how students of English at university level use phrasal verbs in written English. Mondor’s study reveals three principal differences between Swedish learners and native speakers.

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