Teach English to beginners

Teach English to beginners

I want to teach English to people who are from countries where English is not a usual medium of communication. But I have no idea where and how to start and even if I did then I don’t even how to continue the course. Is there some sort of a...
Recommend some movie for learning English

Recommend some movie for learning English

Please introduce some movies (not animations) in which actors speak slowly and with clear pronunciation. I want to learn English with movies. thanks. Answer: Actually, broadening/improving one’s language skills is a very broad concept, it should be done in more than one ways at the same time which is highly...
Good websites, software or books for Learning English

Good websites, software or books for Learning English

Hello! I am interested in English grammar. I am looking for good web resources, websites, software, books or any other method that will help me learn english grammar well. Thank you in advance for your help. I m Interested in learning English Grammar. Can u suggest good websites, software or...
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Solution some ideas on activities to do with a kindergarten girl who is learning to speak English

Solution some ideas on activities to do with a kindergarten girl who is learning to speak English

By the way for one hour a week I’m going to be going into an elementary school to work with a little girl who speaks Spanish and help her to learn English. I’m told she understands English, but has a hard time speaking it. Does anyone have any ideas on projects I can do or...
Do you know what difficult part of learning English

Do you know what difficult part of learning English

By the way I’m teaching some students English as a side job during the summer, and their biggest concern seems to be pronunciation. I am a member of a website, though, where that’s not always the case. I’m making documents to help people for whom English is not their native language, and I was wondering...
Solution recommend to an 13 year old girl who is learning English as a second language

Solution recommend to an 13 year old girl who is learning English as a second language

Hello! What books would you recommend to an 13 year old girl who is learning English as a second language? The purpose is to stimulate her interest in English, enlarge her vocabulary and learn more grammar. The girl is kinda intimidated whenever she is required to speak English in class. Answer: We think the book...
Problematizing one's own epistemological stances

Problematizing one’s own epistemological stances

Apart from pennycook’s ideas, in my opinion, promoting the problematizing spirit can be done by identifying where we fit in these tentative four epistemological categories:(1) I know that I know;(2) I know that I don’t know;(3) I don’t know that I know; and (4)I don’t know that I don’t know.They are not necessarily sequaenced as...

Problematizing sectarian secularism and spiritualism

Let me now turn our attention to my personal contemplation:I know some spiritual insights that have influenced my life, but I do not (and certainly will never) know the totality of how being”critical”reflects spirituality. In a religiously affiliated educational institution in which I belong to at present, to be”critical” may be comprehended as putting”worldly” worldviews...

From Bakhtin’s perspective to a critique of Paulo Freire and beyond

One of the central thoughts of a Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin’s (1981) philosophy of language is heteroglossia (p. 263). It is a field in which the contesting forces in discourse (centripetal versus centrifugal forces) intersperse and class (p. 272 onwards). Centripetal forces contain an authoritative voice4 that usually necessitates people to obey or at...