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Live Earth on MSN Link

2007-07-09T08:21:00.000+08:00

I found this video on MSN and thought you might be interested in it. Live Earth is a monumental music event that will engage, connect, and inspire individuals, corporations and governments to take action to solve the climate crisis. Click this link to go to my favorite part of Live Earth - The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis

Main page

You can also upload your own videostories, click here

Blue Man Group video featured on "Earth To America!"

2007-06-25T08:51:00.000+08:00

Greenpeace Brasil

2007-06-25T08:48:00.001+08:00

Note: Thanks Monica for the link :-)

3rd Video Conference on Global Warming with Waseda University students

2007-06-22T13:26:00.000+08:00

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Chaos in the Future?

2007-06-22T12:07:00.000+08:00

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About the work and video shooting of our team

We had a brief idea of what we’re going to do for the final project in the Wednesday class. Then we had seen many examples of how we’re going to present and what is it going to look like of this project. The central idea is about global warming, and what we will do is to shoot videos to give the audience ideas of what may be caused by global warming, and what will affect us because of the warming issue in our daily lives. Also we need to make a poster as a warning of consequences of global warming with a slogan on it.

We had a discussion over this to plan for the contents we would like to present in the commercial and on the poster. We had decided that we shoot two videos. One is when global warming has come to the extreme point, the weather would become extremely awkward and unsteady. At the beginning, we might still be capable to know what is going on around the world through news media. There would be a day when things going out of control that even reporters dare not to be at the scene reporting the latest news. After that the globe would be in great chaos that no one knows what is happening. People run for their lives. We shot this video in the campus of Wenzao on a raining day. Another one we’d like to show is that if we don’t see and solve the climate change problem caused by global warming, it’s very likely that a draught might happen. Until then people would have no clean waters to drink, and their only chance to keep them from being killed by dehydration would be drinking whatever the liquid is they find. Then disease will start to take over the world because people start drinking dirty water which contains many bacteria. We shot this video at Pallas’s apartment.

The future is in your hands

2007-06-22T10:39:00.001+08:00

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Script
Carrie: Mirror, mirror on the wall, What has happened to Taiwan because of the climate change?

Mirror: Several years before actually before the climate had break out, Taiwan was beautiful, clean, unpolluted. Filled of fresh air. Until you people, the misery shall happen in Taiwan in several decades time.
You will not have to go to Italy for vacation because you will be living in Viena.

照片分割 Narration
第一ㄍ影片: Carrie: Mirror, mirror on the wall, What will happen to Taiwan because
of the climate change?
中文：魔鏡，魔鏡，因為氣溫的變化，台灣將會面零什麼危機。

第二ㄍ影片: Mirror: Several years actually before the climate change had break out,
Taiwan was beautiful, clean, unpolluted. Filled of fresh air.
在氣溫變化還沒真正發生的好幾年前，台灣是美麗的、乾淨的、無污染。充滿著新鮮空氣

狗與騎車的影片(轉換中): Until you people,
直到你們

十年後的照片: the pain shall happen in Taiwan in several decades time.
再過幾十年痛苦將會隨時而來

淹水ㄉ照片: You will not have to go to Italy for vacation because you will be living
in Viena.
你放假將不用去義大利，因為你將住在維也納。

神之手之前ㄉ照片: Stopping climate change, stop your habits
停止氣溫變化，停止習慣

神之手: the future is in your hand
未來在你ㄉ手上

Live with Global Warming

2007-06-20T21:35:00.000+08:00

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In another commercial, we pointed out some inevitable truth like our summer day became hotter than before but we used air con more often. It is just like a vicious circle. We must do something to curb the problem immediately. We provided some practical ways in response to the global warming. These are all the useful and economic methods to prevent our environment from deteriorating.

Give your child a dream

2007-06-20T21:32:00.000+08:00

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In this presentation, we chose a topic that is related to our life, we took a little boy as an example. He wished that one day he could see the snow, so he started to save money. However, thing became different after he arrived the land. We would like to arouse public awareness through the simple way, and we would like to put emphasize on how our environment is worsen.

Save Earth from Heating!

2007-06-20T20:51:00.001+08:00

Poster study from Candy's Group

In this poster, earth is heating because of global warming. Our earth is suffering because we human beings are destroying earth by satisfy our desire and ignore the basic right of all kinds of life on earth. We have to try to stop global warming and save this beautiful earth from heating. Moreover, the small picture below is our logo which means we have to gather everyone’s effort to create better lives.

Keep it or melt it

2007-06-20T20:24:00.000+08:00

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Note from Group Members:
We produced this commercial in order to show the serious situation around the world about global warming. We first showed the picture of large quantity of emissions from factories and transportations and picture of forest had been cut down. These emissions are the main reason of global warming and the photosynthesis has become weaker and weaker because of decreasing amounts of trees. We then showed a picture of drought. Because of the climate change, some places are facing problems of drought which will directly cause lack of food. Following pictures are pictures about the frequency of fire, melting icebergs and hurricanes which are occurring around the world because of the climate change. We put a picture of an earth-like ice cream which is melting to show that the earth is facing these problems now, and then put our slogan “Keep it, or melt it?” in order to aware the public that people should be aware of what is happening and also should try to do something to stop this problem.

1094200065 Tony Sun
1094200067 Gloria Dai
1094200068 Lydia Liao
1094200075 Sharon Lin
1094200076 Joe Su

Small steps, Big Changes

2007-06-20T20:23:00.001+08:00

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UE2B

1094200065 Tony Sun
1094200067 Gloria Dai
1094200068 Lydia Liao
1094200075 Sharon Lin
1094200076 Joe Su

* Essay writing

AD 1 – Joe Su
AD 2 – Tony Sun

* Narration

AD 1 - Lydia Liao

AD 2 - Sharon Lin

* Pictures searching

Gloria Dai

* Poster edit

Joe Su

* Movie maker edit

Lydia Liao

Stop Global Warming Propagranda Strategies

2007-06-07T09:36:00.001+08:00

Taiwan's share in controlling global warming

2007-06-02T20:40:00.001+08:00

Taiwan helps prevent global warming [10]

2007-06-01T16:11:00.003+08:00

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Taiwan helps prevent global warming [9]

2007-06-01T16:11:00.001+08:00

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Taiwan helps prevent global warming [8]

2007-06-01T16:10:00.003+08:00

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Taiwan helps prevent global warming [7]

2007-06-01T16:10:00.001+08:00

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Taiwan helps prevent global warming [6]

2007-06-01T16:06:00.000+08:00

Austin's presentation

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Taiwan helps prevent global warming [5]

2007-06-01T15:14:00.001+08:00

Candy's Presentation

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Taiwan helps prevent global warming [4]

2007-06-01T15:13:00.001+08:00

Claren's Presentation

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Third Presenter

2007-06-01T14:42:00.000+08:00

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Can you give me the name of the presenter?

Taiwan helps prevent global warming [2]

2007-06-01T14:40:00.000+08:00

Pallas' presentation

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Taiwan helps prevent global warming [1]

2007-06-01T14:38:00.000+08:00

Sharon Chen's introduction

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Online Guest: Maggi Doty

2007-06-01T13:54:00.000+08:00

Name: Margaret A. Doty

Description: My first passion is the planet we live on and how most of us sit back and are passively watching it being destroyed for our children and those to come. It is time to start doing something NOW and so I started the group environment to show everyone what's happening and what everyone can do about it, even simple everyday things in your own life. You can make a difference if you care.

Time: 8:30 pm, June 2
Place: http://www.alado.net/webheads
Back-up meeting place: Yahoo messenger

Reminder: Online Chat on June 2

2007-05-28T17:15:00.000+08:00

Online Chat on June 2, 2007 at 8:30 pm (Taiwan time) at Alado.net/webheads

Please make sure that you go to Alado before June 2 and check if you need to download any required software.

Let me know if you're having problems.

To log-in, simply enter your English name, no password is needed.

If you want to meet online before June 2, let me know when and what time so we could do a technical check.

Singapore Conference Student-Report

2007-05-26T21:45:00.001+08:00

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Message from a 12 year old child to the United Nations Conference on the Environment

2007-05-18T17:07:00.000+08:00

This video was shared to us Mr. Andrew Pincon, Alado.net, and he said,

Message from a 12 year old child to the United Nations Conference on the Environment in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Take the time to play this video, listen to the voice of our children, and then decide what you do about what you hear.
Kindest regards
Andy Pincon

I've listed a few questions based on this video and I suggest that you visit the BBS to check them out.

Aiden

Suzuki Interview

2007-05-16T12:49:00.000+08:00

David T. Suzuki PhD, Chair of the David Suzuki Foundation, is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster discusses climate change.

Click here to watch video

Watch the video and answer the following questions. Post your answers on the BBS:

1. According to David Suzuki climate change is a "slow motion catastrophe"? What do you think he meant by that?

2. Suzuki says that the media has to take responsibility for the fact that climate change is still controversial? Why?

3. What is the media's role in Global warming/climate change?

4. Why did Suzuki used the policies on 'seatbelt' and 'airbags' as examples. How are they related to the climate change issue?

5. Suzuki is an advocate for promoting people's awareness about the seriousness of climate change. As students in this course, what can you do to advocate on the same issues Suzuki is fighting for? Give suggestions.

Waseda students' videos

2007-05-15T15:22:00.000+08:00

Right click here to download (mp4 file)

Waseda Student on Global Warming, click here to download (mp4) file

Global Warming Video Conference 2

2007-05-15T14:22:00.000+08:00

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Watch the world melt away

2007-05-01T23:16:00.000+08:00

13-minute news report from CBS

click here

Clean Air Technologies

2007-05-01T21:58:00.000+08:00

When it comes to air pollution, there is good news, there is bad news, and there is reality. The good news is that during the past three decades, environmental measures and new technologies have helped reduce air pollution dramatically, by almost 50 percent. The bad news is that worldwide, the atmosphere over our cities is still smoggy, more areas are urbanizing, and the number of cars on the road is increasing. The reality is that engineers have developed dozens of creative methods to curb pollution, and although there is no magic bullet, some combination of these approaches may hold the answer. In this slide show, get to know a handful of tools for reducing and preventing air pollution.
—Lexi Krock

Click here

Discoveries in Global Dimming

2007-05-01T21:51:00.001+08:00

In the early 21st century, it's become clear that air pollution can significantly reduce the amount of sunlight reaching Earth, lower temperatures, and mask the warming effects of greenhouse gases. Climate researcher James Hansen estimates that "global dimming" is cooling our planet by more than a degree Celsius (1.8°F) and fears that as we cut back on the pollution that contributes to dimming, global warming may escalate to a point of no return. Regrettably, in terms of possibly taking corrective action, our current understanding of global dimming has been a long time in the coming, considering the first hints of the phenomenon date back to 18th-century observations of volcanic eruptions. In this slide show, follow a series of historic events and scientific milestones that built the case for global dimming. —Susan K. Lewis

Click here

Dimming the Sun

2007-05-01T21:49:00.000+08:00

The Producer's Story:
A Taxonomy of Skepticism
by David Sington

Dimming the Sun homepage

Filmmaker David Sington has been making films about the Earth sciences since 1991, but it was a film he made 10 years later called "The Day the Oceans Boiled" that really opened his eyes to the threat from global warming. "Dimming the Sun" is the second film he's done on the subject, and he's working on a third. Here, Sington offers his opinion as to why many people in the U.S., more so than in his native Europe, remain skeptical about how much global warming is due to human activities.

Click here

2nd Video Conference

2007-05-01T21:06:00.000+08:00

The 2nd Video Conference is on May 10, Thursday at 1:30-3:30

Students do a live presentation of the collected evidence about what their government is doing to stop global warming. Students will present and discuss their government’s plan and policies in curbing global warming.

Please arrange the presenters according to availability.

Students from Waseda will present first. We'll probably present around 2-2:30. Prof. Nakano will be joining us face-to-face. She's already here in Taiwan. Say 'hi' to her when you see her in campus.

Aiden

How Taiwan Contributes to Global Warming

2007-05-01T16:25:00.001+08:00

Global Warming Virtual Conference 1

2007-04-19T16:17:00.000+08:00

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Please post your reactions to the conference on this blog. Click 'Comments' to post

Midterm

2007-04-19T13:18:00.000+08:00

Students watch the first second part of the interview with George Monbiot, author of “Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning”, discusses the Stern Report on climate change. What was the importance of the Stern Report and were its recommendations strong enough? How does politics compromise science in such matters?

Task:
Students watch the video at http://www.iwtnews.com/videoplayer/george_monbiot_pt2
and answers questions posted above based on their understanding of the content.

Reading more about global warming and spreading the word

2007-04-19T13:15:00.001+08:00

“The results are in and the reality of global warming is beyond dispute or debate. It’s not just an environmental issue. It affects ours public health and national security. It’s an urgent matter of survival for everyone on the planet — the most urgent threat facing humanity today. It’s going to take action from you and all of us working together.”
http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_learnmore.asp

Virtual March

2007-04-19T13:14:00.001+08:00

Students join the Virtual March online at http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_takeaction.asp

Mitigating Global Warming

2007-04-13T16:55:00.000+08:00

Download to read the PDF file, Mitigating Global Warming
Those who will be reporting on 4/19, better read this article.

Click here to visit Taiwan's EPA website

Here's another source, from Taipei City Government, click here

Energy star program in Taiwan

Climate change (in Chinese)

Assignment for April 25

2007-04-10T20:32:00.000+08:00

Collecting evidence of what the government is doing to stop global warming

Students work in groups and collect information about what their government is doing to stop global warming. Students will research on government plan and policies in curbing global warming.

Research documents (news reports, links to TV reports, government websites) will be published on the class blog to be shared with other participants.

Dates for Video Conferencing

2007-04-10T19:46:00.000+08:00

1st video conference, April 19 (Thursday)

2nd VC, May 10, Thursday

3rd VC, June 21, Thursday

For April 19, some of you will be presenting live. You will show the pictures you shared in bubbleshare with the students from Waseda. You will put the same pictures on powerpoint and you will take turns in explaining how that picture provides evidence that Taiwan is contributing to global warming.

The work you did in bubbleshare should serve as a foundation to help you prepare for your live presentations.

Students do a live presentation of the collected evidence that show how people in their country contribute to global warming.

Note: This presentation should only present the current situation of what people do to heighten the global warming dilemma that affects us all.

GOVERNMENT POLICIES, SOLUTIONS OR ACTIONS TO TAKE WILL BE DISCUSSED IN THE NEXT VIDEO CONFERENCING.

I'll announce in class tomorrow who the presenters will be.

Aiden

Lydia Kuo's group's bubbleshare

2007-04-10T19:37:00.000+08:00

Evidence of Taiwan's contribution to global warming
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New Audio forum for Lessons learned from the Inconvenient truth

2007-04-07T17:45:00.000+08:00

Click here to join the audio discussion on 'Lessons learned from the Inconvenient truth'

Ann's Group: Collecting Evidence

2007-04-04T13:42:00.000+08:00

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Bubbleshare Accounts for Collecting Evidence

2007-04-04T07:57:00.000+08:00

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Gloria's Group, http://www.bubbleshare.com/album/145176
Our group members are: Gloria, Lydia, Sharon, Joe and Tony. (posted 2007/4/3/)

Collecting evidence of how Taiwan contribute to global warming

2007-03-28T11:05:00.000+08:00

Using Bubbleshare, students work in groups and create a photo album where they will post the pictures they have taken/collected that show how the people in their country contribute to global warming.

Students leave an audio description of the photo. So, when we look at the album on slide mode, we would be able to see a photostory of the collected photos.

Online English Reading Help

2007-03-27T14:41:00.000+08:00

ESL Reader is an Online Reading Help for students learning English as a Second Language (ESL). Use it to speed up your reading time and improve reading skills. Anytime you need to read online text in English, copy that text and run it through ESL Reader. It will make each word into a link so you can easily look-up word definition or translation simply by clicking on it.

Click here to try it out.

Paste the text from "Humans Responsible For Climate Change, Says UN Report"

Reminder: Sentence Outline Assignment due on March 28

2007-03-27T14:15:00.000+08:00

Students watch the first part of the interview with George Monbiot, Columnist for The Guardian and author of the bestselling books Captive State, The Age of Consent, and Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning. He discusses the science of climate change. What causes global warming? What is the tipping point? And why are countries failing to act with any sense of urgency on the issue.

Task:
Students watch the video at http://www.iwtnews.com/videoplayer/george_monbiot_pt1
and answers questions posted above based on their understanding of the content by preparing a sentence outline

Upload your word file on the ecourse

Go to http://ecourse.wtuc.edu.tw/

Sign in

Look for 英語聽力與會話(二)

Once you are in the Listening Course page, click "Homework"

Click 'Present' Assignment 2, upload your assignment (saved in word document)

I've adjusted the deadline to March 30. Friday.

Please do not post your homework on the Yahoogroup.

Polar Bears to become extinct?

2007-03-14T12:44:00.001+08:00

Powerpoint presentation grabbed from slideshare.

PPT

2007-03-14T12:40:00.001+08:00

March 14, What causes global warming

2007-03-14T12:36:00.000+08:00

How much do you know?

2007-03-06T14:40:00.000+08:00

How much do you know about global warming? Do you know of a song that talks about nature or environment? How does it go?
What are your views on global warming? Are you concerned?

Join this online voice discussion and share with us your opinions. Click here to post your voice recording now.

Aiden

Stop Global Warming Virtual Propaganda Introduction

2007-03-06T14:32:00.000+08:00

Download Syllabus for Spring 2007

2007-03-06T13:53:00.000+08:00

Click here to download syllabus for Spring 2007

Day 5, RELC

2007-02-24T20:48:00.001+08:00

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Day 4, RELC

2007-02-24T20:46:00.000+08:00

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Day 3, pm, RELC

2007-02-24T20:45:00.000+08:00

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Day 3, am, RELC

2007-02-24T20:44:00.000+08:00

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Feb 11, 2007 RELC

2007-02-24T20:43:00.001+08:00

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aidenyeh has shared relc_singapore_feb10_16_2007 with you

2007-02-10T08:25:00.001+08:00

aidenyeh has shared a photo album with you. Click the following link to check it out!

http://www.bubbleshare.com/album/122142

Your friend's message:
airport, Feb. 10, 2007

Share your own photos for free!
http://www.bubbleshare.com/

What's in a name Workshop

2007-02-09T14:11:00.000+08:00

Stop Global warming links

2007-02-04T20:52:00.000+08:00

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/

http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/gsteps.asp

http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/default.asp

http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/becomeactive/

Ethnic Make-up

2007-01-11T18:50:00.000+08:00

Watch this interesting vodcast (video podcast) online. It's pretty heavy download so better watch or download it at home. Here's the link:

http://mediasnackers.com/focus/vodcasts/

The first part is about Ethnic Make-up. This video segment was created by teenagers. When I saw this video, it reminded me of Claren's group's presentation (poem rendered in rap style).

Enjoy watching the video!

Aiden

Language and Cultural Identity

2007-01-11T18:36:00.000+08:00

Final Project: Slang

2006-12-13T12:45:00.000+08:00

Linguistic Imperialism

2006-12-06T10:29:00.000+08:00

Read this article and get ready for discussion on 12/6

2006-12-04T17:08:00.000+08:00

Read this article and get ready for discussion on 12/6

Click here to read the rest of the article, click here

To print this article, click here

Comments and Feedback

2006-11-22T13:35:00.000+08:00

Tina's Group, Project 1

2006-11-21T19:59:00.000+08:00

Click here to view presentation.

Thomas's Group: Teaching English in Taiwan

2006-11-21T18:18:00.000+08:00

Click here to view presentation.

Is it too early to learn English?

2006-11-21T17:48:00.000+08:00

Click here to view presentation. Please be patient. It takes some time to download the entire file.

Taiwanese_lexical_borrowing

2006-11-19T16:45:00.000+08:00

Taiwanese Lexical borrowing

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Common Errors in Taiwanese English

2006-11-19T14:23:00.000+08:00

Tina's Group, click here to view presentation.

Gloria Dai's group, click here

Please be patient. It may take some time to download the file.

Video Presentations -Assignment 1

2006-11-19T01:41:00.001+08:00

Gloria Dai's group, click here to view presentation

Files may take some time to download. Please be patient.

Assignment for November 16

2006-11-15T12:05:00.000+08:00

Watch the online video lectures and jot down 3 questions (for each lecture). Type your questions and submit tomorrow, Nov. 16, 2006 during the live video conference.

Tomorrow's online discussion will be graded, so come to class prepared.

Submision of Videos for the third conference

2006-11-08T14:33:00.000+08:00

Deadline of submission of vidoes is on Nov. 15, Wednesday.

Make sure to read the assigned readings and watch the assigned video lectures for Nov. 16 video conference.

Aiden

Code Switching and borrowing

2006-11-01T11:03:00.000+08:00

Code switching refers to a situation in which a speaker uses a mixture of distinct language varieties as discourse proceeds. It can often happen within a single-sentence. Some speakers mix distinct languages, a situation often arises in bilingual or multilinguals.

example

It's now ocho y media (eight-thirty) on a Saturday night, and we're gonna hear a new artist con (with) his new group. You're tune in with la maquina ritmica.

Borrowing occurs when speakers of one language borrow words from another language, the foreign words come to be used as regular vocabulary items.

example

croissant

Guide Questions for CodeSwtiching and Lexical borrowing

2006-11-01T10:53:00.000+08:00

Guide Questions for CodeSwitching and Lexical borrowing of Taiwanese EFL students

Q1 Do Taiwanese EFL students code switch? If yes, what are the factors (reasons) why they code swtich?

Q2 Provide examples of localized borrowed English terms

Q3 Do you see it (lexical borrowings) a linguistic problem (conflict) or not? Why? Is it acceptable? Why? Why not?

Q4 What are the sociolinguistic implications of this issue?

Q5 Provide ways on how to resolve those conflicts

Guide Questions for Common errors of Taiwanese English

2006-11-01T10:46:00.000+08:00

Q1 What are the common errors of Taiwanese English?

Q2 What are the effects of these errors on intelligibilty and comprehensibility?

Q3 What are the potential sources of miscommunication?

Q4 Is Taiwanese English acceptable? Should it be taught in schools?

Q5 What happens when common errors of Taiwanese English become fossilized? What are the implications of fossilized errors to EFL (English as Foreign Language) students trying to reach the target language (Standard English)?

Q6 Provide ways on how to resolve the conflict.

2006-10-25T14:26:00.000+08:00

http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/phono.html

Division of groups for Nov 16 presentations

2006-10-25T13:47:00.000+08:00

Topic: Common mistakes on pronunciation (Taiwanese English)

Group 1

Lydia Liao
Gloria Dai
Sharon Lin
Tony Sun
Joe Su

Group 2

Candy Lin
Ann Hung
Tina Lin
Austin Lin
Royce Tan

Assignment for November 2

2006-10-25T13:38:00.000+08:00

1. Watch the lecture videos of Ann Pakir and Prof. E. Low. Post to the OIC message board:

What did you learn from the Lectures?
Do you see any similarities/differences between Singaporean English and Taiwanese English?
Any similarities/differences on people's perception/s on the use of a certain language variety?

2. After watching the videos, take the online quiz. You need to post your answers online. Save your work on Word document, print and submit on November 2. This is a graded take-home quiz.

How to Take Perfect Lecture Notes

2006-10-10T20:50:00.000+08:00

Click on the link below to read a short but very helpful article on taking down lecture notes:
http://www.wikihow.com/Take-Perfect-Lecture-Notes

Assignment for 10/18 to be posted on OIC

2006-10-10T20:31:00.000+08:00

After taking down notes on Prof. Larry Smith's lectures, answer the following questions in essay format:

What did you learn in this lecture, "English as an International Language"?
Discuss the native and non-native speaker dichotomy. In your opinion, when does this issue become personal and highly sensitive for people who speaks English as a second or foreign language?
What do you think are the factors that affect the intelligibility of the different varieties of the english language? Give examples.
What language do you think will replace English as the language for international communication in the near future? Why do say so?

You need to:

1. type and submit your essay during our face-to-face meeting on 10/18

2. post this essay on the OIC message board and encourage other students to participate. Please indicate your English name and student number in your message.

Let me know if you have questions.

Assignment for 10/18

2006-10-10T20:10:00.000+08:00

A) Watch Larry Smith's lecture on the OIC, and try to expand the outline of the lecture (Units 1-3) by:

Joting down details or examples that support the main ideas.
Taking down examples which the lecturer presents.
Indicating examples with "e.g."
Giving special attention to details not covered in the textbook.

Type your work and submit on 10/18. Late assignments won't be accepted.

Outline of Larry Smith's Lectures

2006-10-10T20:09:00.000+08:00

UNIT 1 Larry Smith’s Lectures
I. My Current Perspective on EIL
* Historical Perspectives
* Key Concepts
* Future of English as an International Fu
* Language and Further Studies

II. Development of EIL Concept in the 70s
* East West Center Participants from Asia, the Pacific, and the United West Center Participants from Asia, the Pacific, and the United States
* They could understand me and I could understand them BUT
* They couldn’t understand tEACH OTHER
* WRONG ASSUMTION: If I study a variety of native speaker native speaker English and become more and more like that native speaking variety, I will be able to understand those from all other countries and will be understood by them.

III. New Principle:

If we want people to be able to If we want people to be able to understand the
English of people from understand the English of people from another country, we
need to give them another country, we need to give them opportunities to hear
speakers from those opportunities to hear speakers from those countries using
English

IV. Changes in the Last 30 Years Changes in the Last 30 Years •

* EIL to to World World Englishes
* Kachru’s Three Circles
* Increase in acceptance of Types of Native Speakers

UNIT 2
I. Controversies
* Total Number of English Users
* Definition of Definition of “fluent”
* EIL as Instrument of Neo EIL as Instrument of Neo-colonialism and colonialism and Linguistic Imperialism

II. Question of Intelligibility •
Possibly that speakers of different varieties of English will soon become unintelligible to one another. (Past, Present, Future)
(Past, Present, Future)
Dimensions of Understanding
• 1. Intelligibility
• 2. Comprehensibility
• 3. Interpretability

UNIT 3

III. Miscommunication Prevention
* Literatures in World Literatures in World Englishes
* Professional Associations
* Future of English: English will be replaced as the primary language of international communication
When?
What?

Assignment for October 4

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1. Prepare an (expanded) outline of Prof. Nakano's video lectures on Units 1 and 2. You need to arrange the texts in numbers and sequence according to the order in which Prof. Nakano delivered her lecture. You also need to provide examples and other details that Prof. Nakano mentioned during her lecture. Your outine should not be a complete replica of Prof. Nakano's powerpoint material.

Note: Type and print out. Submission deadline: October 4, in-class

2. Answer the following questions in essay form.

2.1 What did you learn in this lecture, 'World English and Miscommunications: Introduction'

2.2 What is your attitude toward the different varieties of the English Language?

2.3 In what ways do you think the concept of world Englishes affect your notion (what you think of) of your English language skills.

2.4 In what ways do you think World Englishes could result to miscommunications. Give examples.

Note: You need to type and print out and submit on October 4. In addition, you also need to post this essay on the OIC platform. Give your essay a title. Ask other participants to comment on your work.

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Miss Sun saying Singlish and English

2006-09-27T00:34:00.000+08:00

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Miss Sun saying Singlish and English

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Singlish documentary

2006-09-27T00:28:00.000+08:00

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a UNSW (COFA) student

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Singlish Documentary

Chinese Version of Singapore 2006 National day song

2006-09-27T00:14:00.000+08:00

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2006-09-27T00:10:00.000+08:00

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2006-09-27T00:00:00.000+08:00

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2006-09-26T23:55:00.000+08:00

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bubbleshare website

2006-09-21T00:07:00.000+08:00

Hello,

My name is Tina. And this is my bubbleshare website.

http://www.bubbleshare.com/album/66535.ad038870d9e

Thanks^^

UE2B 1094200069 Tina

Hi Miss Yeh..
This is my bubbleshare asignment.
i didnt succeed in sending it to ur mail-box.
http://www.bubbleshare.com/myalbum/66606.436e7c4c734
Thank u ^^"
Lydia Kuo

Post your self-introduction on the OIC

2006-09-20T15:24:00.000+08:00

Go to Waseda Unviersity's OIC platform and post your self-introduction. do not forget to post your bubbleshare URL. You need to do this within this week. I will be checking the OIC platform by September 22, 2006 (Friday)

Please do it a.s.a.p.

The following information is also available at our Ecourse. You may also check it out for updates.

deadline for this is on September 22, 2006 (Friday)

A. Yeh

Austin's introduction

2006-09-20T12:17:00.000+08:00

http://www.bubbleshare.com/album/65559.b0f38709fa1

This is Austin's introduction! Thank you very much!

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