Category: Learning English
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Easy Self-study: Contextualized Vocabulary Learning with Dictionaries, Corpora, and More
Before you read: The below lead-in contains a lot of vocabulary items for a challenge at the end of the blog. At the moment, ignore the unfamiliar words and phrases (if you have). Go back when I tell you to do so. As a non-native English speaker and a newbie EFL teacher, I am no…
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Corpora Helped Me With Some Language Problems That Dictionaries Cannot
Two weeks ago, in one of my student’s writings, he wrote: “…global warming effects which causes dramatic damages to people at scale.” Putting the grammatical problem with “causes” aside, I was particularly into the phrase “at scale”. “Where on earth has he learned this awkward phrase?”, I wondered. As usual, I went for dictionaries to…
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Public speaking: What made me a new me?
Every experience in my life teaches me something. I hope that my sharing can somehow give you a better start in your own stage.
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Học từ vựng từ IELTS Reading sao cho đáng?
Không phải cứ in đề ra, canh giờ, giải và kiểm tra đáp án là xong. Hành trình học IELTS của mình thật sự nằm ở sau quá trình “chấm điểm” đó…
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