English, Jack

Second thoughts on English and how she's taught

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

TGE & determiners

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This is the third post on Ron Cowan's new and rather poorly considered The Teacher's Grammar of English. I wrote to Ron a week ago a...
Thursday, June 19, 2008

TGE & verb forms

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Yesterday, I promised that I would write a number of posts explaining why Ron Cowan's new The Teacher's Grammar of English ( TGE )...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

The Teacher's Grammar of English: Stay away!

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Cambridge ESL embarrasses itself once again with the recent publication of Ron Cowan's The Teacher's Grammar of English . I've a...
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Monday, June 16, 2008

Oxford 3000 profiler

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When Oxford released the 7th edition of its Advanced Learner's Dictionary , it included a list of 3,000 key words. "The keywords o...

Guessing unknown words

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Language learners are constantly faced with the task of dealing with unfamiliar vocabulary. Unfortunately, their teachers too often expect t...
Sunday, June 15, 2008

Allowed doing

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The trampoline in our backyard is quite a magnet for the local kids. Over the last few nice weekends we've had up to nine of them here a...
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Saturday, June 14, 2008

Nouns that don't genitive

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One of the characteristics of English nouns (common, proper, and pro-) is that they can almost all appear in genitive (possessive) case. But...
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Friday, June 13, 2008

More on the Queensland grammar brouhaha

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Geoff Pullum has posted a new bit on Language Log describing another negative review by Rodney Huddleston of some pedagogical grammar arti...
Monday, June 09, 2008

CIITE and the CLB

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Last week I attended a meeting of representatives from a number of Ontario Colleges who are undertaking to benchmark the language requiremen...
Sunday, June 08, 2008

How embarrassing...

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Wild Geese

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Earlier this year I had a particularly thoughtful and engaged student from South Korea. She happened to be here looking after her son, an in...
Friday, June 06, 2008

Milestone at the Simple English Wiktionary

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On Friday, the 4,000th entry was added to the simple English Wiktionary . In fact, the count is somewhat arbitrary as it includes some relat...

More obligatory adjectives

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About a year and a half ago, Geoff Pullum noticed a situation in which it appeared that the adjective was obligatory and the article option...
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Thursday, June 05, 2008

What can we learn from Korean IELTS scores

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According to Kang Shin-who reporting in the The Korea Times , " Koreans spend a lot of energy and money on studying English but their...
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Government backtracks--Star plows ahead

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Again, Lesley Taylor of The Toronto Star reporting : The government of Canada has backed off its plan to have all immigrants take the IELTS...
Monday, June 02, 2008

Language tests for immigrants & Honesty tests for newspapers

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This morning, the Toronto Star's Lesley Ciarula Taylor reports on the government's plan for the IELTS test to become the single an...
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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...
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