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English Language Teachers Needed Starting September 2011 in the Sultanate of Oman

By jonduckett on | From happycatstefl.com
CECN EDUCONSULT-OMAN, an educator provider–education consultancy company, is seeking applicants for the following positions in colleges, starting September 2011: English Language Teachers Duties and responsibilities • Teaching English to college students • Preparing and conducting exam papers and quizzes • Assessing students • Maintaining students' records • Presenting reports on students' progress Qualification • Native English Speakers from the US, Canada, Britain...Read Full Story

Center for Applied Linguistics Suggests Workshops at TESOL convention

By Eric Roth on | From compellingconversations.com
How does one choose between the many tempting workshops at the TESOL convention? Naturally, I chat with a friends and co-workers collecting tips. I check titles, times, and locations. I seek more information online! The outstanding Center for Applied Linguistics website includes many resources for ESL teachers, program administrators, and university researchers. Their goal, which I share, is to bridge the huge gap between academic theory and classroom practice, finding effective ways to...Read Full Story

Is UP Even UP Anymore?

By April Lorier on | From aprillorier.blogspot.com
I'm hearing the word UP a lot these days, especially in the grocery store. Yo! What's UP? (or wassup?) Better straighten UP before I jack you UP. There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is 'UP.' I'm wondering if UP is even UP anymore? It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are...Read Full Story

English Course in USA

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English Course in USA - A Infallible Plan to Double the Benefits Obtained from your English Course in USA. You´ve made your decision. You´ve signed up for your English course in USA. This is it! A great chance to really improve your English and enjoy all the things American culture has to offer. However, you must think about this: no matter how great your course is, no matter how skilled your professors are, you could miss out on great opportunities to take your English speaking to the next...Read Full Story

How to use word association to master Japanese in your sleep!

By Brett McCluskey on | From jappermon.blogspot.com
How to Use Word Association to Master Japanese A good goal when learning another language is to try to remember words so that you won’t ever forget them. That last sentence contains quite a lofty goal. You make absurd associations that are meaningful to you and in this way by making absurd associations between something that reminds you of the meaning of the word in Japanese but sounds like something you can relate to in English. The more absurd the associations, the less likely you are to...Read Full Story
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A Crash Course in Linguistics
Simply defined, linguistics is the systematic study of language. Though various types of language studies (including grammar and rhetoric) can be traced back over 2,500 years, the era of modern linguistics is barely two centuries old. Kicked off by the late-18th-century discovery that many European and Asian languages descended from a common tongue (Proto-Indo-European), modern linguistics was reshaped, first, by Ferdinand de Saussure (1857...  
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High school students to compete in linguistics competition at UNT
North Texas high school students will use a set of rules and their analytical skills to decipher unfamiliar languages and translate them to English during the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad on Feb. 2.  
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