Comments on: Six more things to know about Global

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:54:13 +0000

Very funny indeed! Why does it always take a TEFL connection to get me on these sites??

By: Lindsay Clandfield

Lindsay Clandfield — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:16:03 +0000

You know, I only just saw this properly! lol!! That was hilarious. Was that you Nick?

By: Nick Bilbrough

Nick Bilbrough — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:24:37 +0000

Though I’ve never used them with students, it strikes me that subtitle adding sites like these could be a fun and very useful thing to do with language learners. I wish I’d known about them when I wrote the book.

Mine’s not a patch on your ‘Any Given Dogme’ though Lindsay.

http://tinyurl.com/y8fpkb4

What tools did you use to do this?

Nick

By: Nick Bilbrough

Nick Bilbrough — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:57:22 +0000

It seems Global is already selling like hot cakes!

http://tinyurl.com/yjk7hrp

(Another great dialogue building site that Russel Stannard alerted us to on Twitter)

Nick

By: lclandfield

lclandfield — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:53:56 +0000

Hi Hall,
Thanks for mentioning this, that’s great. I think it’s always interesting to find out about differences in the students’ own language. In Spain they can really get into explaining regional differences (sometimes this can get ahem a bit political too!)

By: Hall Houston

Hall Houston — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:27:00 +0000

Today I used the David Crystal text, “Same Language But Different”, from Global with my university students. I also included the six internet acronyms mentioned in an earlier Six Things post, as it relates to the last paragraph of Crystal’s article.

I learned quite a bit about language differences in Taiwan and mainland China. For example, one student pointed out that they use different words for bicycle and police.

They knew some of the internet acronyms, but were a bit puzzled by some of them, especially LMAO (laughing my ass off).

Overall, I got a very positive response from the students. I’m hoping to try out Global with my classes next year.

By: lclandfield

lclandfield — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:20:36 +0000

Thanks for dropping by Ruby! Your course sounds great, would this be the same stylistics that Widdowson talked about? There is some great stuff on that out there.

By: Ruby

Ruby — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:55:07 +0000

You’ve sold it to me! Looks like there’s a lot of things that I would have included had I been in the position of producing a book (boy – there’s an interesting grammar example) but in particular:
- I’m not surprised that David Crystal has been so helpful, supportive and academically top-notch. As you know, I think he’s a superb example of a really great human being, as well as knwoing his subject inside-out
- I too think it’s a great pity that literature has disappeared from the curriculum. When doing my Master’s I discovered literary stylistics, and for me that was the missing link – linguistics as a way into literature, and for once the non-native English speakers could offer as much as the NESs. Combine it with a corpus of language to get corpus stylistics and the access to analysis of literature throws open the doors! I’m hoping to soon provide a new course in pedagogical stylistics, aimed at precisely giving access to literature. Check it out – pedagogical stylistics is the way forward! http://sites.google.com/site/pala2010budapest/

By: Sandy Mac

Sandy Mac — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:44:00 +0000

Looking at the opposite of global, there is the little island called the UK. So, in an effort at a free bit of shameless publicity, Lindsay, your UK readers might like to trip over to my blog and vote on this:

“NOVEMBER POLL: Whose interests do the British Council and English UK serve via their accreditation processes?”

I’m hoping for a big turnout on this one, chaps!