Dictation redux
Image via Wikipedia A while back, I posted about using dictation in EFL classes. I recently gave dictations in my final exams, and reading the results taught me some further uses for dictation. Students failed to notice how a falling intonation indicated the end of a sentence. I did not announce the punctuation, as I [...]
Timed writing
Blaine Ray wrote, Having [students] do time writings without editing is an excellent way to assess fluency. I’ve been having my students write for 5 minutes almost every class, usually at the beginning, sometimes at the end. Sometimes I set the topic, but most times I left them free to write whatever they wanted. I [...]
Academic Writing Part 2
Image via Wikipedia This is a follow-up to my previous entry on this subject. If you are looking for a website to help you teach academic writing to university students (whether EFL students or native-English-speaking students), I recommend those by Gavin Budge (Writing for the Reader), and by Andy Gillett: Academic Writing. As many of [...]
Academic Writing
Most of my classes are of the “Oral English” type, but I also teach some classes in which students are required to produce academic writing in English. At first, I assumed that my students were getting basic instruction in academic writing in their native language (Japanese) in other classes, e.g. their seminar classes. They probably [...]
Blogrolls and feeds
When I first started blogging, I used Bloglines as my aggregator, along with millions of other beginner bloggers. About 6 months ago, after Google bought Blogger, I started using Google Reader, and found it so user-friendly I abandoned Bloglines in a fit of mid-life-crisis fickleness. With Bloglines, I faithfully kept all my feeds, adding to [...]
Plagued by students plagiarising?
I’ve been using Snagit, a Windows program that takes screenshots including grabs of scrolling windows, and they send me a newsletter every now and then. Today’s a link to a website that allows you to input some (student-written) text and see if it’s been plagiarised or not. I’ve no idea how it works, or if [...]
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