TOPICS

Class A

Taiwan time [GMT +8]

Friday, 1-2 pm (5am GMT)

or Tuesday 9-10 am (1 am GMT)

ONLINE GUEST SPEAKERS

Class B

Taiwan time [GMT +8]

Wednesday,11-12 noon (3am GMT)

 

ONLINE GUEST SPEAKERS

 

What's lost when a language dies?

Read article before joining the discussion. Click here to read article. With Vocabulary guide, click here

Listen to the discussion

Class B with Michael Coghlan, Part 1 Intro, Part 2- the online discussion

Class A with Vance Stevens, James Bakker, and Robert Brannon aka Elderbob [the volunteers prepared the questions and projected their material online]

 

March 04, Friday, 1-2 pm (5am GMT)

 

 

Vance Stevens

James Bakker

Robert Brannon aka Elderbob

March 02,

Michael Coghlan

eLearning Coordinator for Douglas Mawson Institute of Technology Australia

Listen to Michael's feedback

 

 

World Englishes

Performing Identity: a Stage for Multilingual English and Multicultural Englishness

Read article before joining the discussion. Click here to read article.

For translation of some words, click here [courtesy of Jum Duber]

Non-Native Pronunciation Guide [courtesy of Maria Jordano]-

 March 15, Tuesday

9:am Taiwan time or 1 am GMT/ 8 pm EST

 

 

 

Rita Zeinstejer

EFL Teacher, Asociación Rosarina de Cultura Inglesa, Argentina

March 16, Wednesday

 

 

Leanne Mackenzie

ESL teacher, British Columbia Canada [16 hours behind Taiwan time]

 

 

 

What's in a name?

Listen to:

Class B's online discussion

 April 08, Friday, 1-2 pm (5am GMT)

Christina Ljunggren teaches Swedish, EFL and SSL (Swedish as a second
language)at Nils Ericsonsgymnasiet in Trollhättan,
Sweden.

March 30,

Barbara Dieu

Franco-Brazilian school in São Paulo

 

 

The Etymology of the international insult.

 April 29,

April 27,

 

Colloquial language. Do you speak American?

PBS Link

"My Cousin Vinny"

 May 10, Tuesday 9:10-10:00 am (1am GMT)

Dafne Gonzalez

Professor, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela

May 11,

Buthaina al-Othman

ELU of Science, Science, Language Center, Kuwait University, Kuwait

 

 


 

Online Schedule

 

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