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So he is an ENGLISH teacher. Now, on +the other hand, if you say 'I am an ENGLISH TEACHER,' notice that both +of the words there are stressed equally, an ENGLISH TEACHER. That means +that you are a teacher whose nationality is English. Now I just want to +throw out a parallel case, quite a well-known one, which is: Where does +the president of the United States live?" <p/> AA: "The White House." <p/> +BAKER: "The White House. And you stressed the first word, WHITE House. +Now, one the other hand, if you stressed both words equally and you say +WHITE HOUSE, how would you use that?" <p/> AA: "I live in the white house." <p/> RS: "As opposed to the blue house or the green house." <p/> BAKER: "Correct." <p/> +AA: "Moving on, Rick Ming is a junior majoring in English in China, and +he would like to know how to get his classmates more interested in +current affairs. He says: 'Unfortunately, not all my classmates care +about current affairs. So the point is, how I am able to motivate them +to express the views on news freely in class?'" <p/> BAKER: "People +are interested in something or they're not. Most people are interested +in things that are of some kind of relevance to their lives. So I would +say if you want to discuss current events with your classmates, try to +select topics or issues that affect their lives in one way or another. <p/> +"But I suspect that a larger problem is, it's not that they're not +interested in current events, but rather it may be that his classmates +just feel that they don't have enough English to be able to do this +competently. So some ideas that come to my mind are, instead of talking +about, for example, Voice of America news headlines, to select the +feature stories, which have the scripts, posted on the Internet. <p/> +And before having the discussion with his classmates, each person could +read the scripts and that would give them the opportunity to spend some +time learning the vocabulary and thinking about the background of the +topic involved. So that's one thought that I had. <p/> "Another one +that I had was to give some thought to the linguistic skills that are +necessary in order to sustain a conversation or a discussion in +English. If you're talking about current events with somebody, you +would need to know how to express an opinion. You would need to know +how to agree with somebody or to disagree with somebody. You would need +to know how to ask questions. You would need to know how to ask +somebody to repeat what they have just said, or to explain what they +have just said. <p/> "Now all of those how-to's that I've just +mentioned are called language functions. And it might be useful for +this student to approach his English teacher and ask the teacher to +help him and his classmates learn some of these functions." <p/> RS: "It might also be a good idea for him to start a separate study group." <p/> BAKER: "I thought of that." <p/> RS: "A group that perhaps looks at an English language newspaper or looks at the VOA Web site, or -- " <p/> BAKER: "Or a club." <p/> RS: "Or a club, exactly, where interested people come together for this particular purpose." <p/> +BAKER: "Sure. One other idea that I had is to make use of the Internet. +There is a Web site, for example, called Dave's ESL Cafe. And there are +all kinds of discussion forums. But if you went to a search engine and +you typed in something like 'ESL discussion groups' I suspect you would +find others as well. So I think it's very worthwhile to make use of the +Internet, you know, via an online discussion group." <p/> RS: "And make new friends." <p/> BAKER: "That's right." <p/> +AA: Lida Baker teaches in the American Language Center at the +University of California at Los Angeles -- that is, when she's not +writing books for English learners. Lida can't answer questions +personally, but send them to Rosanne and me. <p/> RS: Write us at +VOA Wordmaster, Washington, DC 20237 USA or word@voanews.com. And our +Web site is voanews.com/wordmaster. With Avi Arditti, I'm Rosanne +Skirble. +</span> + </smilText> + </par> +</body> +</smil> |