Our schizophrenic teaching culture

[tthk84]

"We cannot teach in a way and test in another"

from http://www.todayonline.com/Hotnews/EDC091230-0000085/Customised-approach-to-CL

Finally, he said it! I wished this could be implement in our English classrooms soon too, though I'm not too optimistic. There are many interesting pedagogical approaches and activities that could be implemented but we,

Comments

[lilaq]

i don't understand why it's only chinese. malay and tamil have the same kind of problems isn't it?

[tthk84]

yeah i guess, but in a tiny line, he also said that similar philosophy will be applied to other MT languages. Well, now we shall see whether the changes are indeed real or whether it's just paying lip service. but again, it seems very reactive.. MM said something, everyone scurry to make changes. hmm... well, let's not judge first and see how it goes.