Discussion about "TEFL-ese"

[Stew.t.]

Hi Molly

The people the article you quote and you maybe believe in refer to users of TEFLSPEAK.

By the definitions the same people covered by this blanket statement may, under the label/ definition given, work for Spotlight.
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[Molly]

Second or related part of the above article:

Extract:

a convincing theoretical framework which can serve as a solid basis for the design of powerful EFL learning environments and, ultimately, the implementation of effective instructional procedures and techniques, needs to integrate both, the internal (the learner / teacher as a mental being) and the external (the learner / teacher as a social being). Theories which are too re­ductive anthropologically, separating the mental from the social, are didactically less convincing, especially or at least from the teacher’s practical per­spective, and they rather widen than bridge the gap between theory and prac­tice.

http://juergenkurtz.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/teflspeak-g-and-the-idea-of-encouraging-improvised-speech-in-the-efl-classroom-2/

Do you, as a teacher or syllabus writer integrate the internal and external?

[Molly]

Part three has just arrived:

TEFLSPEAK-G and the Idea of Encouraging Improvised Speech in the EFL Classroom (3)

http://juergenkurtz.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/teflspeak-g-and-the-idea-of-encouraging-improvised-speech-in-the-efl-classroom-3/

[Molly]

More:

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wordscape/museum/effle.html

This is a pencil. This is a boy. Peter is a boy. Peter is not a pencil.

And this is the point of all my postings on this subject:

"Why does Effle matter? After all, you may think, it is correct English and it will not do any harm; sentences with a similar structure are used to convey meaning in real life, so if learners are learning the patterns of these sentences they are learning something useful. But Effle does harm the learning process, since it severs the link between what we say and what we mean. Language use and language learning needs to be a continuous effort to understand meaning and to convey meaning. As soon as we encourage or force learners to say what they do not mean, we break links that will be all the harder to mend afterwards."

[Molly]

"Yezneeg likes very much the meat of the hen"

http://www.languagehat.com/archives/001042.php

[Molly]

Anti.effle:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000254.html