Friday, April 11, 2014

Presentation to Junior Secondary English teachers at Zhaoqing

Gave a presentation and commented on 3 open lesson observations at a professional development event at Zhaoqing, Guangdong.
Topic: Tackling the reading texts and their new vocabulary in the coursebook.
Audience: 600 junior secondary English teachers from Foshan, Guangdong, and Zhaoqing. Jointly organised by the Teaching Research Institutes of the 3 cities.


Two useful desktop apps for IPA transcription

 There are now a few mobile apps for turning an orthographic text into an IPA phonetic text. But in practice, we will more likely use a desk...