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		<description><![CDATA[I have been staying in an English speaking country for 3 months and counting. Have I improved my English? What I have noticed - (a) I am hearing the words I have read in books written by British authors. (b) I am finding it difficult to string together an academic sentence. I am usually at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacylnng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3852251&amp;post=61&amp;subd=jacylnng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quelle est votre matière préférée?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was given the opportunity to go for school visits here in Scotland which was an invaluable experience. I managed to witness something interesting in a French class &#8211; the teacher was asking the students which subjects they dislike the most and the answer: English Language. I was moderately surprise. I can only hazard one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacylnng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3852251&amp;post=57&amp;subd=jacylnng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Click and Find</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my one hour break time at work &#8211; I would huddle around the computer with a few friends to play this wonderful game of hide and seek. It is a computer game where you have to locate certain items to beat the game. My friends were really gung-ho about the game &#8211; why gung-ho? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacylnng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3852251&amp;post=54&amp;subd=jacylnng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Subtitles</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you go to the movies in France to watch a Hollywood blockbuster, I could guarantee that the movie would be dubbed in French with no subtitles. If you go to the movies in Malaysia to watch a Hollywood blockbuster, I will guarantee that the movie would be in English with Malay subtitles. So in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacylnng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3852251&amp;post=52&amp;subd=jacylnng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fiction or Fact</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dinosaur, Easter Bunny, Father Time, and the Ghosts of Christmas past. What do these objects have in common? Besides being extinct, or a figment of our imagination or even our beliefs &#8211; it starts with &#8216;t&#8217;. Yup all these characters represent time which is associated to age. Age has been discussed as being one of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacylnng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3852251&amp;post=43&amp;subd=jacylnng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mind your P&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“How much information of a certain language do we need to be made understood by native speakers?” “Isn’t it enough to get around using body language and certain lexical items?” “Is there a point to actually learn the different meaning conveyed by sentences in a language?” “Learning that language won’t help me in communicating with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacylnng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3852251&amp;post=38&amp;subd=jacylnng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Give a Mouse&#8217;s Donkey &#8211; Decipher</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The chapter on Krashen has finally closed (doubt it won’t stay close for very long). It’s not that I am happy to see it end but he has been happily screwing my mind with his ‘Monitor Model’. I love the way he hypothesizes his theories which does make perfect sense if we think about but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacylnng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3852251&amp;post=34&amp;subd=jacylnng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>*Gasp* Advocate of Behaviourist.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It finally hit me today in Brona’s lecture that I advocate 1/10 of the behaviourist way of teaching. I used to teach Communicational English or English for Communicational Purposes. At the end of the day, students must be able to hold a decent communication in English with other speakers of that language according to various [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacylnng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3852251&amp;post=29&amp;subd=jacylnng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who? What? &amp; Why?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was walking home from the TESOL &#38; Learner workshop, my mind was still processing on the information on Language Learning and this incident which happened when I was 7 years old.   When I was about 2 – 7 years old, I was home-trained in the English Language and Malay Language. Before I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacylnng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3852251&amp;post=24&amp;subd=jacylnng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Needling along</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comprehensible output versus comprehensible input. Swain vs Krashen. Which one of these big heavyweights will reign supreme in the ring? I think it depends which part of the world you come from. Both theories do have their strengths. Swain’s theory on CO is that language acquisition happens when we attempt to attempt to transmit a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacylnng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3852251&amp;post=11&amp;subd=jacylnng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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