Vol. 5 Issue 5 – Research Paper: ‘Pedagogical Blogging: Promoting Tertiary Level Students’ Critical Thinking by Using Socratic Questions’ by Zahra Shahsavar & Tan Bee Hoon

English remains an often confusing and difficult language to learn (and teach!) for many reasons. The common “gap” between how a word is spelled and how it sounds is one challenge. Another source of confusion and many headaches remains the surprisingly large number of homonyms and homophones, different words with the same sound. Just as computer speech software programs like Siri on the iPhone find it difficult to distinguish the number 2 from the preposition “to” from the word “too”, so do many listeners.

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Vol. 5 Issue 5 – Research Paper: ‘Using Facebook to Extend Learning into Students’ Digital Lives’ by Chris Harwood & Brad Blackstone

English remains an often confusing and difficult language to learn (and teach!) for many reasons. The common “gap” between how a word is spelled and how it sounds is one challenge. Another source of confusion and many headaches remains the surprisingly large number of homonyms and homophones, different words with the same sound. Just as computer speech software programs like Siri on the iPhone find it difficult to distinguish the number 2 from the preposition “to” from the word “too”, so do many listeners.

Continue ReadingVol. 5 Issue 5 – Research Paper: ‘Using Facebook to Extend Learning into Students’ Digital Lives’ by Chris Harwood & Brad Blackstone

Vol. 5 Issue 3 – Mobigam: Language on the Move in Gujarat

Some English students make learning English even more difficult by expecting themselves to speak “perfect”, with “no accent” just like ” a real native English speaker.” May I suggest that this noble goal is both very difficult to achieve – especially for adults – and often even unwise.

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