English, Jack

Second thoughts on English and how she's taught

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

The Oxford Learner's Thesaurus

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Up until now, there have only been two thesauri (or thesauruses if you prefer) for learners of English: The Longman Language Activator and...
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Sunday, May 25, 2008

ETJ

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English Teachers in Japan is a mostly eponymous group (I say mostly because there are some members like me who aren't in Japan) that run...

What you trade and what you get

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Trading places with your students is good experience for any language teacher. A good long trade really is the best: the kind where you go a...
Friday, May 23, 2008

Determined to get into the OED

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For some time there was a fair bit of debate over at en.wiktionary about whether to list words such as all, most, every, this, etc. as adje...
Thursday, May 22, 2008

Early English in Japaneses Schools

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A while ago, Tom Merner wrote , "The implementation of mandatory English in the 5th and 6th grades of elementary schools in Japan is ju...
Saturday, May 17, 2008

Said determinative

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Said is most commonly the past tense of say , but as a past participle, it became used in legal writing to refer to something that was ment...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Podcatch?

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My own sense of podcast as a verb matches that of Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English Main Entry: podcast Part of Speec...
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Sunday, May 11, 2008

Commas, Turning Up, Everywhere

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Via The Onion April 25, 2008 | Issue 44•17 WASHINGTON—In the midst of a crisis...
Saturday, April 26, 2008

Preposition post

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Rodney Huddleston pointed out to me that I hadn't included post as a preposition in the Simple English Wiktionary. (I have since added ...
Thursday, April 17, 2008

Lack of funds may cut ESL classes for 30,000 Ontarians

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If the Ontario government is indeed earnest about wanting to "help internationally trained professionals work int heir fields of exper...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Part-time college teachers to unionize

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Here in Ontario, it has been illegal for part-time college teachers to unionize. A ruling in BC last year made it clear that that would have...
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Sunday, April 13, 2008

Singluar 'they' - legally encouraged in Canada

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I do hope that this sounds the death knell for the pointless proscription of singular they . The Canadian Department of Justice actually rec...
Saturday, April 12, 2008

Declining standards of language

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By Craig Brown Last Updated: 12:01am BST 12/04/2008 Sir - Listening to people on television being interviewed, I find to my horror that the...
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008

This year's LLL finalists

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"Every year, the Extensive Reading Foundation recognizes the best new works of language learner literature in English. From books publi...
Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Language Log down

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If you've been having trouble accessing Language Log, you're not the only one. [addition: Back up Old LL here , New LL here .] Check...
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Thursday, April 03, 2008

Frindle

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Last summer when my wife was taking courses and I was taking care of the kids, M. & T. and I would go down to Chapters and spend a few h...
Saturday, March 29, 2008

Received in the mail

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Provided without comment: "A new important site: Learning you English Language, It learning you everything about spoken English special...
Thursday, March 20, 2008

Firsten redux

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A few days ago I disagreed with Richard Firsten's analysis of the construction "for us teachers". Where he said us is a pron...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Communication(s)

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The following question and reply (by Barbara Wallraff) were published in the Detroit Free Press. David Tobin of Houston writes: "You...

on radio and the tv (and the perils of lazy capitalisation)

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on 19-mar-08, at 6:13 AM, jennifer tamura wrote: "Would someone be kind enough to give a reasonable explanation as to why we say, for e...
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