skipper
skipper's Latest Posts
ASSESSING DICTIONARIES IN ASIAN EFL USAGE
The primary subject of this work is the dictionary entitled, “Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition” hereafter referred to simply as Merriam’s. Further reference by way of a comparison, which is essential to evaluate carefully the primary work, will be made to the “Longman English-English-Korean Dictionary,” hereafter referred to as Longman’s, and the “Collin’s Concise Dictionary,” hereinafter referred to as Collin’s.
Dictionaries Usage in EFL and Learner Development
Sinclair’s new style of presenting lexicographical information is by offering examples from actual texts as well as omitting rules or ideas about words that are shown to be in error. A simple exercise using the COBUILD dictionary in class, as described by Boyce (in Nation 1994: 191) is only one step in familiarizing learners …
English Only (EO) In The Classroom: Time For a Reality Check?
That the EO question, at times, has been framed in “all or nothing” views, has appeared to take away from a common sense approach. There may be a more middle ground area, at least as a point of departure towards meeting the requirements of the English language teaching curriculum.
ASIANEFL RESEARCH PROTOCOLS
The search for ‘truth’ is pervading educational research. In particular, and limiting research to the EFL/ESL sphere, theories and research results abound proving and disproving and altering that truth. The field of research has been likened to the judicial adversarial system where results are argued over.
L1 / L2 Learning in Children: Explicitly Reframed
Some scholars have tried to frame second language acquisition (SLA) within children as a neat and clean proposition. The question for examination is whether children learn a second language implicitly (rather than explicitly) in the same way they acquire it in L1 (Fromkin et al., 1999, 347).
Courtroom English
Consider the following English case recorded in the English law journals. A seaman who was a witness in the case was being cross-examined. He was asked if he knew the plaintiff. The seaman said he did not know what the word ‘plaintiff’ meant and could not answer the question.
The Business of Words; Whose domain?
“Politicians frame words.
Lawyers play with words.
Judges interpret words.
Teachers teach words!”
Both the teaching of English and the practice of law have one thing in common. They both concentrate on ‘words.’
The Chinese Learner: A Neo Globalized Learner – or the Re-Birth or an Old Culture
What is the “Chinese learner and are there social phenomena acting upon this entity that is changing the way the Chinese government determine future educational curricula to meet China’s changing needs? In this work Chinese learner is basically defined as a Chinese national living within mainland China who falls inside the broad category of ‘student.’
Korea. A cross cultural communication analyzed
This work will analyze cross-cultural communications between Korean native speakers and myself, and will review the literature to date. I have chosen Koreans as the report emanates from Pusan, Korea, an international port city of some 4 million Koreans. Pusan Korean is spoken, and said by all, to be a ‘vulgar’ dialect of Korean.
The Pervading Influence of Neo- Confucianism on the Korean Education System
Modern Korean education is based on two competing systems, that given by the government and that given by private enterprise. The later clearly dominates the students life from elementary school through to University studies. Hitherto rote learning had characterized the Korean education system, with students rewarded for pure memory as opposed to creativity.