Using listening transcripts in ESL classes
I don’t know for sure if all the tech advances we’ve seen over the last few years (or even the last few months!) will help us make our students better language learners, but I am sure that the ability to access classroom listening material out-of-class has to be a move in the right direction. Doesn’t [...]
FULL Teacher’s Manual
Hi Teachers, It’s been a frenzied start to the semester, so sorry that things are coming in piece-meal. The Teacher’s Guide is available now on the password-protected page. (Click the tab above that says “For Teachers.”) TK
Teacher’s Manual PDF
For you patient teachers: Just got a .pdf containing part of the Teacher’s Manual for Nice Talking With You, which you can download here. As soon as the entire TM is available, I’ll post the download link for you here. Sooooo, subscribe to this blog, and you’ll be sure not to miss it! Tom
Zipped Audio for Teachers
Hey to fellow teachers, I’ve just added all the audio files you need for teaching Nice Talking with You. You can get them in two big zipped folders, available now on the “For Teachers” page of our site.
A “Nice Talking with You” student comments
This is Jun Kaneda, who used Nice Talking with You as a freshman at Nagoya University of Foreign Studies. As a job-hunting senior today, she has something to say about the future — a view that might surprise you.
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Cambridge University Press author Tom Kenny shares ideas on teaching and learning in this blog, updated weekly.
Tom is associate professor of linguistics in the Department of British & American Studies at Nagoya University of Foreign Studies in Japan.
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