Why are there so many bad native speaker English teachers in Japan?
Part three is now new and improved, if you want to have a look here: http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/archives/191 A few of those improvements came from posting the same question on the well known TEFL site that from now forth will be known as “Rave’s ESL Au Lait”. I learnt many things from starting a thread on there: • A few people are highly territorial about “their” EFL forums and you will have to do the equivalent of a cock fight before they leave you alone • A few people will use the reply “that’s just a generalisation” or “that’s just your opinion” to almost all statements you make. Well, yer, der! That is both how the human brain makes sense out of the world around it and the best way of making a point in the limited space available on a blog or forum. • A few people specifically go onto a forum in order to argue. Understandable, as that is the reason many British males go into a pub as well, but also one of the reasons I left the UK… I also got a few opinions on the topic at hand:
