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CONTENTS: VOLUME 8 NUMBER 2 LITERATURE OUP EXAM SUCCESS ENGLISH LITERATURE STUDY GUIDES THE MARK (Edyth Bulbring) Events of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa .(from the President, Chris Thurman) my shakespeare – call Shakespeare and Social Justice WRITING English GUIDELINE FOR TEACHING AND […]
Teaching English Today A project of the English Academy of Southern Africa www.teachenglishtoday.org Dear colleagues We are pleased to bring you the first issue of TET for 2018. Please note: We have edited contributions but have tried to retain the flavour and style of […]
Teaching English Today A project of the English Academy of Southern Africa www.teachenglishtoday.org Dear colleagues We are pleased to bring you the second issue of TET for 2017. Please note: We have edited contributions but have tried to retain the flavour and style of the originals. The Academy does not necessarily endorse the views expressed by […]
Teaching English Today A project of the English Academy of Southern Africa www.teachenglishtoday.org Dear colleagues We are pleased to bring you the first issue of TET for 2017. Please note: We have edited contributions but have tried to retain the flavor and style of the originals. The Academy does not necessarily endorse the views expressed […]
Teaching English Today A project of the English Academy of Southern Africa www.teachenglishtoday.org Dear colleagues We are pleased to bring you the second issue of TET for 2016. Please note: We have edited contributions but have tried to retain the flavor and style of the originals. The Academy does not necessarily endorse the views expressed […]
Happy birthday to the Bard on 23 April! TEACHING ENGLISH TODAY RE-LAUNCHED Read more: Click on 'Volume 6 of TET launched' below: Volume 6 of TET launched INDEX: TEACHING ENGLISH TODAY April 2016 (Articles appear below the Index.) LITERATURE: Themes in Hamlet – Guy Butler Teaching […]
Graham Bam puts the main problem plain and simply in a letter to the Cape Times: ‘The debate about the use of English as a medium of instruction is going nowhere.’ No more research, theories or proposals. We are running out of time. We have to make a decision.
Greater attention to language education in multilingual schooling is vital if we are to achieve national unity and social reconciliation through the removal of legacies of linguistic inequalities and prejudices that underpinned the racism of our past (Young, cited in Heugh, Siegrühn & Plüddemann 1995: 111).
It has been said that English is one of the hardest languages to learn to speak and spell correctly. The poem ‘The Chaos’ represents a virtuoso feat of composition, a mammoth catalogue of about 800 of the most notorious irregularities of traditional English orthography, skilfully versified (if with a few awkward lines) into couplets with alternating feminine and masculine rhymes. You should find this both entertaining and useful for teaching spelling and homophones.