August 28th, 2010
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Category: English Lesson Plans HELP
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August 18th, 2010
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Category: Information Literacy VIDEOS
Phil Orr, a librarian at USI’s Rice Library, shows media studies students how to explore the Internet for foreign television programs. In part two, he shows “doctortew” how to use the website Wikipedia. The explanation was filmed by Chad Tew, a journalism professor, for an assignment in his course “Introduction to Mass Communication” that is taught at the University of Southern Indiana. In the assignment, students adapt a foreign TV program for a US and international audience. Their mission: To create a sales pitch that reduces the distributor’s uncertainty. Outcomes: Students learn about media economics, narrative style, and global media.…
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August 14th, 2010
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Category: Information Literacy VIDEOS
Phil Orr, a librarian at USI’s Rice Library, shows media studies students how to explore the Internet for foreign television programs. In part one, he shows “doctortew” how to use the website IMDB.com. The explanation was filmed by Chad Tew, a journalism professor, for an assignment in his course “Introduction to Mass Communication” that is taught at the University of Southern Indiana. In the assignment, students adapt a foreign TV program for a US and international audience. Their mission: To create a sales pitch that reduces the distributor’s uncertainty. Outcomes: Students learn about media economics, narrative style and global media.…
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August 3rd, 2010
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Category: Technology Literacy ARTICLES
While e-discovery may be Greek to many, it is those documents written in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Russian that cause much of the trouble. These “multi-byte” languages have exponentially more characters than the 26 letters and few other punctuation marks that Latin languages like English, Spanish, French and German need. In fact, the number of Chinese characters included in the Kangxi dictionary is over 47,000 (though only 3-4,000 are reportedly necessary for full literacy). The impact on e-discovery is significant considering the increased sophistication necessary for case evaluation.
At the most basic level, computers think in ones and zeros, with a…
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May 13th, 2010
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Category: ESL Articles
Why Learn German As A Foreign Language
Reasons why people should learn German as a foreign language Visit here http://waystolearngermanfast.blogspot.com
Hello, I am Shawn and I speak fluent English, Mandarin and German. I’m here to write about German. Why should people pick up German as a foreign language? There are several advantages to learning German. This article shall show that there is a need and even an advantage in learning another language apart from English. In particular: why you should learn German.
Perhaps you might not need any convincing, because you already have a personal reason to learn German. You might have a…
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May 8th, 2010
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Category: English Lesson Plans HELP
I want to setup an agency that provides English teachers to students in Far East Asia. Can I obtain an English teaching curriculmn from somewhere in order to make my life easier as I want to ensure that my tutors are consistent with their lesson plans?
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April 11th, 2010
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Category: ESL Videos
Alexander Arguelles presents a four part video lecture on the subject of accent formation and pronunciation in the study of foreign languages. For more information, please refer to http:/www.foreignlanguageexpertise.com
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April 10th, 2010
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hi.i would like know where i can find lesson plans.i attend seminars about teaching english to speakers of other language.and i need a lesson plan about teaching grammar based on the Communicative Language Teaching.could anyone help me?
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March 7th, 2010
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A video-chat about how to improve your EFL students listening skills.
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March 4th, 2010
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Category: ESL Articles
Native English-speakers are increasingly exhorted to learn foreign languages to play a more effective role in globalisation. However, we tend not to learn foreign languages for three very valid reasons.
1. Many other peoples in the world are not just exhorted to learn English, they are required to do so. Thus, you can find English virtually everywhere you go.
2. The grammar of most other languages, certainly most European languages, is much more complex than English. Thus, native anglophones often view language learning as a daunting, and even demoralising task.
3. Most native anglophones, especially in North America, live in…
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