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Topic	I'm an English teacher, and I think my co-teacher can't read.
_____Cait 05/11/21 9:26:47 AM #20:	SothaSil posted... A) its grammatically correct. Grammatical correctness has nothing to do with sensibility. B) C) this is why it bugs me when people without a pedagogical background go teach esl overseas and call themselves teachers We need to teach them native sounding English, as well as English for their standardized testing. The tests are awful and rigid, but they matter here, unfortunately. And even if it is technically correct, it sounds awful, and I feel we should at LEAST teach them to sound slightly native while speaking, within reason, as to not stress them out. There is a fine line we need to walk between native speaking and test English. This, however, is pretty glaring and unnatural. I can let i proper plurals, tenses, and conjugation by on occasion, but this just sounds bad. --- ORAS secret base: https://imgur.com/V9nAVrd 3DS friend code: 0173-1465-1236 <cite>_____Cait posted [p:953786007] in I'm an Eng... [t:79453173]...</cite> <quote>SothaSil posted... </cite> <quote>A) its grammatically correct. Grammatical correctness has nothing to do with sensibility. B) C) this is why it bugs me when people without a pedagogical background go teach esl overseas and call themselves teachers</quote> We need to teach them native sounding English, as well as English for their standardized testing. The tests are awful and rigid, but they matter here, unfortunately. And even if it is technically correct, it sounds awful, and I feel we should at LEAST teach them to sound slightly native while speaking, within reason, as to not stress them out. There is a fine line we need to walk between native speaking and test English. This, however, is pretty glaring and unnatural. I can let i proper plurals, tenses, and conjugation by on occasion, but this just sounds bad. --- ORAS secret base: https://imgur.com/V9nAVrd 3DS friend code: 0173-1465-1236</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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