"Just Teach Them Some English"

Teach Them to Live

This is a lively and comprehensive survey of the development of education in the prison system and Miss Banks brings to her study wide vision and much human understanding. After five years in the pioneer post of tutor organiser at Maidstone Prison, she has travelled, seen and studied the work of a large number of our 155

How to teach English with Technology

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How to Teach The Suprasegmentals of English To Farsi-speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language

What do parents expect antenatally and do babies teach them?

Antenatal inquiry of 658 parents in the North Staffordshire District Health Authority showed at least 13% to lack knowledge about a baby's potential for personal interaction when under 1 week old. Mothers and fathers varied significantly, independent of parity. Experienced parents expected later smiles. Two hundred and seventy eight of the same families were questioned three to four months afte...

Don’t Just Tell Them, Show Them! Teachers Can Intentionally Alter their Instructional Gestures

Because gestures can ground abstract ideas in the physical world and make connections between ideas, they play a potentially important role in the classroom. This study examined whether teachers can intentionally alter their gesture production. Six teachers taught a brief mathematics lesson three times, once without any special instructions, once attempting to use gestures to link ideas, and on...