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gin a do you think? Mr. Shaw:Yes,here in China I find people are quite open with the have to teach my students that you cannot ask that type of questions to western people, because we would turn around and say, “ Hey, that39。t get enough practice. I find that very hard because the students all learn English, but they don39。t tend to get together and talk English to each other. But they have to speak English, and only in this way they learn a lot faster. For the students going overseas to study, they have to practice more because they39。s not your business.” I teach them the basic rules,such as: you don39。t. Li: After the English learners having improved their listening, what would you remend them to do? Mr. Shaw: I would remend them to buy good English storybooks and read them. But novel is a challenge, few people could really finish a novel, while for a magazine, one can easily finish one article a day. The variety of a magazine provides the readers with an important cultural experience. I think, short and simple article with good facts can help English leaners as much. 澳大利亞 ESL 教師一席談 李昕:肖先生,你是位很有經(jīng)驗的非母語英語課程教師,請問你在中國待了多久了 ? 肖彼爾先生:我在中國待了已快 5 年了。那些要出國留學(xué)的學(xué)生,就更得多練,因為他們得在海外用英語立足生存。比如,同外國人開始交談,有正確的也有錯誤的方式。 ” 然后就是介紹你自己,還可問一些諸如 “ 你從哪兒來 ” 等此類的問題。這正是我在課上所教的,我教給他們通常的道理,那就是你不應(yīng)占別人太多時間,他們還有事兒要干呢。而到了一個新地方,他們往往太害羞而不去交外國朋友。 對中國學(xué)生,他們得記住:當(dāng)你只身在外國時,你不僅僅是一個人,你是代表你們國家的大使。 李:肖先生,請問你還教給學(xué)生們什么技能 ? 肖:哦,我教他們聽力技巧。一本真正的好詞典,一個詞有許多釋義、許多短語和詞組,能告訴你如何用一個詞,而電子詞典是辦不到的。讀小說可是個挑戰(zhàn),很少有人能真正讀完一本小說的;而雜志呢,人們很容易一天就能讀完一篇文章。有時,別人的話回得很快,他們呆住了。這也說明了講究禮貌的重要性。 李:對大多數(shù)語言學(xué)習(xí)者來說,選擇合適的談話類型是很困難的,這你怎么看 ? 肖:是的,我在中國發(fā)現(xiàn)人們什么問題都要問。他們?nèi)ヂ糜尉包c,找游客說話,但跟一位游客談話的時間從不超過 5 到 10 分鐘。實際上,中國學(xué)生是在