Log 009 - Musing about ways to improve the teaching of writing in Hong Kong
Reflective Blog: Suggest 7 things we can do towards better Writing instructions in Hong Kong
Log 008.5 - A Young Mother's Worry: How to cultivate an interest in reading English books
If parents, in the midst of asking their kids to value their education, don't value their own education,... how can they honestly as the
Log 008 - Reading Inauthentic and "Meaningless" Texts Motivates Nobody, including Teachers
I never saw the use of reading some put-together texts by, more often than not, people who haven’t taught kids at schools.
Log 007 - Vocabulary: Natural Acquisition Vs Unstructured Learning
The words I didn't know were essential to understanding the lesson, so they became important to me, and I was motivated to learn them.
Log 006 - “Useless Fun”
Manners - and attitude - maketh a man.
Log 005 - Grammar mistakes, when do they end?
If students lacked opportunity to converse with other English-speakers so that they learn - through modeling and self-correction - how to us
Log 004 - Should students memorize grammar rules?
Fundamentally, we speakers of English seek to be able to communicate with English; “perfect grammar” may or may not serve a function - or ev
Log 003 - Once upon a time, "I learned Grammar"
It is in this sense that grammar was "taught". Since English was learnt through immersion, every moment at school was an English-l
Log Entry 002 - Thoughts on the Hong Kong education curriculum
The fact of the matter is, even if it might be an extreme example and is considered a minority, it still doesn't change the fact that th
Log Entry 001 - Why become a teacher of English?
That is when I decided that if I had such a difficult time learning Chinese, what must the students of most Hong Kong schools feel when they
