New England English Teacher Reports from Venezuela

About Me In my personal contact with education-related blogs, I continue to review and ruminate about articles related to teaching English to children. As I mentioned in my previous entry, my English courses are usually for students at least 11 years old. I consider my approach to English to be integral; I am interested in helping each student to listen, speak, read, and write with a good understanding of the English used. You might not see a lot of evidence of my reading in this blog entry. Sometimes the authors prefer to send me directly their blog entries. I continue to read blog-related articles on education, changes in the English language, and difficulties in other languages like Russian and Arabic. Years ago I ran into a little bit of the type of Arabic difficulties mentioned.  I got some Arabic materials to share with a friend only to find out that it was not his type of Arabic. He could not understand the materials, but he appreciated my effort. I always run into Engli...

Greetings on June 25, 2013. In my personal blogs I am reviewing some articles about teaching English to children, especially by music. My English courses are usually for students ages eleven (11) and older. However, sometimes I get younger students or visitors. The insights and practical materials about English and music in the blog articles may help me a lot with these younger students. I especially like the book on nursery rhymes. I may try to use some of them. I am also reading some blog articles on changes in the English language. I always run into a simpler kind of word usage with my students. My old favorite word "dialogue" is now, more often than not, written as "dialog." I used to go "travelling", but now it seems like everyone goes "traveling." I should not complain too much about these more recent changes; my generation also changed some of the the previous generation's words. I shall keep you up to date on my personal teachin...

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