Comments for miguel bengoa elt

Comment on Writing sub skills by satya

satya — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:06:22 +0000

its really nice

Comment on Writing sub skills by vindhya

vindhya — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:26:38 +0000

its useful for me as i m an elt student.thank u so much.

Comment on Fifty Links for learners by Mohammad

Mohammad — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:41:34 +0000

here is a link for Gre Toefl Vocab

topgrewordslist.blogspot.com

Comment on Listening sub skills by vicky

vicky — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:22:20 +0000

You saved me a job having to research all this tonight!

Thank you very much.

Comment on Strategies for listening, note taking and discussion by Miguel

Miguel — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:04:40 +0000

Hi
Great to hear that you have found the site useful! I visited your site quickly and noticed that you are using the @ in your email. Maybe you are aware, in which case forgive me, but this could leave you open to attack from naughty people and bots. Many people prefer to simply write “at” and example being booatyahoo.com. This makes it much more difficult (so I understand) for bots to spam you.

I am now teaching slightly different courses. We have a seven week modular system and so teach a different course every seven weeks. Stops us becoming bored. Recently I have been experimenting with a student bog. If you like you can see it at http://ieuc3.wordpress.com/

Comment on Strategies for listening, note taking and discussion by Charles

Charles — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:53:59 +0000

Miguel,

Came across this entry on a Yahoo! search for listening +curriculum +elt it’s the second time i’ve come to your site via a search engine and was happy to be back.

How’d the note taking training work out for you in your course?

Comment on Babel test by Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:22:32 +0000

We are currently using your Babel test in a project in Abu Dhabi. It works really well at roughly predicting IELTS levels. Thanks for making it open source!

Comment on About by Miguel

Miguel — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:00:06 +0000

Everything should now be working properly – it was a little .php problem. Thanks for telling me.

Comment on About by David

David — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:26:31 +0000

I just found your site today via google. It looks like it is jam packed with great information, but I cannot access any of it! Everytime I click a link to ‘read more’ of the articles it simply sends me back to your main page. Maybe many more visitors are relegated to window shopping as well.

Comment on Phonology: features of connected speech by Pablo

Pablo — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:00:53 +0000

I found this website REALLY helpful

I mean it, congratulations!

Comment on TBL – a rough guide by sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:27:35 +0000

Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. Cheers! Sandra. R.

Comment on Listening sub skills by Tamara

Tamara — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:26:40 +0000

thank you so much this has really helped me.

Comment on Writing sub skills by tom bastille

tom bastille — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:15:21 +0000

useful. thanks alot

Comment on TBL – a rough guide by taide

taide — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:50:15 +0000

I think this is an excellent website for us teachers to look up and to find resources for our own teaching. thanks

Comment on Glossary by Miguel

Miguel — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:39:25 +0000

There are several benefits that I can identify, although they are mainly related, of course, to listening.

1. Deducing meaning and use of unfamiliar lexical items through understanding word formation and contextual clues.
2. Recognising and understanding phonological features of speech [especially those forms associated with supra-segmental features].
3. Understanding relationships within the sentence: the syntactic and morphological forms characteristic of spoken language
4. Understanding relationships between parts of text and utterances through cohesive devices [especially grammatical cohesive devices such as reference]
5. Understanding relationships between parts of text by recognising discourse markers [especially for transition and conclusion of ideas, for anticipation of objections or contrary views and for turn-taking]
6. Understanding the communicative function and value of utterances with and without explicit markers [e.g. definition and exemplification]
7. Understanding conceptual meaning in spoken text and utterances [e.g. comparison, degree, cause & effect, result, and audience & purpose]
8. Understanding attitudinal meaning in spoken text and utterances [especially ability to recognise the speaker's attitude towards the listener and the topic by intonation]
9. Identifying the main points or important information in discourse [especially through vocal underlining and verbal cues]
10. Distinguishing main ideas from supporting detail [the whole & its parts, fact & opinion, statement & example, and proposition & argument]
11. Understanding explicitly stated ideas and information
12. Understanding ideas and information in spoken text and utterances which are not explicitly stated [e.g. through making inferences]
13. Interpreting spoken text by going outside information in the text to information not contained in the text [e.g. through picking up exophoric reference]
14. Transferring and transforming information in speech to diagrammatic display [e.g. through completing a diagram, table or chart]
15. Skimming: listening to obtain the gist of spoken text
16. Scanning: listening for specific details in spoken text
17. Note-taking from spoken text

* Extracting salient points to summarise specific idea or topic in text
* Selectively extracting relevant key points from text [especially involving coordination of related information and tabulation of information for comparison and contrast]
* Reducing text through rejection of redundant or irrelevant items or information [e.g. determiners, repetition, compression of examples, use of abbreviations, and use of symbols denoting relationships between states or processes]

Comment on Glossary by SASO

SASO — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:52:55 +0000

WHAT ARE THE BEBEFITS OF DICTOGLOSS IN THE ORAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT?

Comment on Teaching Speaking Tactics by Tony

Tony — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:36:55 +0000

An interesting but longstanding issue relates to the Tarski theme displaying “no comments” when the comments count is zero. Do visitors think comments are closed? I decided to write a post about it. Hope it helps!

http://tonytrainor.com/journal/2009/03/do-you-really-want-no-comments-on-your-blog/

Comment on Teaching speaking: fluency or accuracy? by nostalgian

nostalgian — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:16:23 +0000

Thank you for creating an excellent site.
It’s very helpful for me as I’ve got some ideas to work on my thesis, which focuses on students’ fluency in using humanistic exercises.

You are well-organized your website as it’s easy to read and follow each parts. Also, the background and color don’t harm my eyes.

Comment on What MA? by Margaret Horrigan

Margaret Horrigan — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:25:47 +0000

I don’t know if this helps but I did my MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL with Leicester University from 2002-2006. You actually have 3 years for the distance programme ( I took 4 for a bereavement). The content was pretty good and has certainly been of help for my own ‘knowledge’ base in ESL/EFL. I would say that the feedback was sketchy at time though and worst of all it was inconsistent between markers.

I suppose like most courses you get out of it what you yourself put in!

Hope that this helps!

Marg

Comment on Approaches to testing: direct and indirect testing by Mark Louie Ano

Mark Louie Ano — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:26:29 +0000

Well, your website really helps me a lot so I really appreciate you people who come up with this kind of website, thanks a million!

Comment on About by john

john — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:58:26 +0000

Mike,
Great to see you on the web.
Drop me a line when you can,
John

Comment on Reading sub skills by uyen

uyen — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:14:25 +0000

Thanks for this entry. I’m using it to teach reading skills to my students..

Comment on Approaches to testing: direct and indirect testing by Anis

Anis — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:05:05 +0000

And I liked, will be looking at your site.

Comment on Recycling specific vocabulary: the vocabox by Irene

Irene — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:04:02 +0000

I FOUND VERY USEFULL ALL THE INFORMATION YOU HAVE IN THIS SITE. IT IS CLEAR AND EASY TO FOLLOW. THE ACTIVITIES SUGGESTED ARE MORE THAN ENOUGH AND ALSO THEY ARE FUNNY. I’VE BEEN WORKING AS AN ENGLISH TEACHER SEVERAL YEARS, BUT NOWADAYS I’LL PRESENT MY TKT CAMBRIDGE EXAMINATION. THAT’S WHY I FOUND YOUR SITE, BECAUSE I WANTED TO REINFORCE SOME SUBJECTS. WHY DON’T YOU INCLUDE A SECTION THAT HELP US WITH ALL THE TRICKY QUESTIONS THE EXAM HAS? MANY TEACHERS WILL APPRECIATE YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND YOUR HELP.
THANKS
IRENNE GOMEZ S.
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Comment on What Masters’? by Peter Cornish

Peter Cornish — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:43:46 +0000

Just to clarify for those interested

Was on the Surrey MSc in ELT Management and found faults in their materials

Queried the problem and was patronized

Asked for a 3rd party opinion and was proved right

Not a good example of student care from an organisation teaching about student care