Mainstream ESL pedagogy has been dominated by monolingual methods for the past century, but the default teaching mode in many EFL contexts is in fact bilingual. A challenge we currently face is to find fresh ways of describing such bilingual teaching. This paper attempts to begin to do so by taking the notions of scaffolding and intertextuality – both deriving from monolingual, monocultural contexts – and applying these to Thai university English classes. Episodes of teacher talk from four classes are examined. It is found that the scaffolding metaphor can readily be applied to bilingual episodes; and that an intertextual analysis across two languages
Educators have called on the government to pay more attention to research as only 10 Thai universities made it on the Times Higher Education top 300 Asia University Rankings this year, and six out of the universities' rankings slipped from last year.
"An extremely inspiring film that is also hilarious, exciting and heart-wrenching. Not only are the three men unbelievably good willed, they are enjoyable characters filled with lovable quirks and wonderful stories to tell." - Christopher Campbell
once upon a time, in the California Inland Empire outside of Los Angeles, garage rock ruled. A young surfer dude dreamed of escape from the provincial ticky tacky of Riverside. Little did Rick Brown know his fate was to be the lead singer of one of the gr
BEYOND THE CALL follows Antic and his compadres as he travels the third world bringing medicine, money , and educational tools to the poor in lands as diverse as Afghanistan or the Phillipines.
Called a gifted first novel, Antonio Pineda's Magick Papers is perhaps also one of the very few detective stories with a backdrop of the performing arts. But it reflects Pineda's earlier life in the psychedelic underground of San Francisco's Haight-
actor, and rock biographer cum raconteur Geoffrey Giuliano graciously invited me to premiere of his show, the Beatles Legend Photographic Exhibition, at Central World in Bangkok Thailand
The author, former Playboy bunny and activist Susan Dusty ALDOUS joins us. Dusty delivers a birthday cake to celebrate, as my mum would say, Virginias 19th birthday.
Antonio and Leighton Hodges film making adventure in Thailand with advice and encouragement from noted film maker Michael Sorenson. This is an HDtv film being positioned to submit to http://sxsw.com
Information and communication technology for development; water management and technology; urban and rural sustainability; food and aquatic systems
Title: Information and communication technology for development; water management and technology; urban and rural sustainability; food and aquatic systems
In an Indiana Jones meets Mother Teresa adventure, three eccentric middle-aged men - former soldiers and modern-day knights - travel the world delivering life-saving humanitarian aid directly into the hands of civilians and doctors.
Check it out dawgs, donned my bespoke suit to suss out art exhibition by Swiss cinematographer Beat Presser at Pavaradi Theatre on the other side of Chaophraya River. Beat has worked with Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog, Fassbinder, and is personal friend of
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