Category Archives: Punctuation

Surprises about English punctuation

Posted on 13/07/2008 by alexcase

I’m continuing to learn from and ponder on the information in the Cambridge Grammar of English, and as before testing the matters I’ve been chewing on against your native speaker intuitions would be appreciated (sorry for the very unpleasant mental picture from … Continue reading →

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Believing everything about Hiroshima

Posted on 09/08/2007 by alexcase

A recent editorial from the Asahi Shimbun gives a perfect illustration of the difficulties of teaching English and American academic writing and debating style to Japanese and other Asian students. First of all it does that great Asian almost zen-like trick … Continue reading →

Posted in Academic writing, Cultural differences/ cultural training, EFL exams, English for Academic Purposes, IELTS, Linguistics, applied linguistics and SLA, Paragraphing, TEFL, TESOL | 3 Comments

Those pesky emails are now done!

Posted on 07/08/2007 by alexcase

Trying to find fun stuff to practice emailling in class is one of the banes* of my life, so I think I deserve a little smugness on having come up with a new idea on how to do so. You … Continue reading →

Posted in Business English and ESP, Cultural differences/ cultural training, Email, Error correction, Lesson planning, Pairwork and groupwork, Paragraphing, TEFL, TEFL games, Writing games | 2 Comments