Gregory V. Diehl
Autor(a) de Brand Identity Breakthrough: How to Craft Your Company's Unique Story to Make Your Products Irresistible
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Obras por Gregory V. Diehl
Brand Identity Breakthrough: How to Craft Your Company's Unique Story to Make Your Products Irresistible (2016) 21 exemplares
Travel as Transformation: Conquer the Limits of Culture to Discover Your Own Identity (2016) 17 exemplares
Everyone Is an Entrepreneur: Selling Economic Self-Determination in a Post-Soviet World (2022) 14 exemplares
The Influential Author: How and Why to Write, Publish, and Sell Nonfiction Books that Matter (2018) 7 exemplares
Associated Works
The Destiny Book: Rediscovering the Mother of Spirituality — Prefácio — 1 exemplar
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- Obras
- 6
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- 2
- Membros
- 72
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- #243,043
- Avaliação
- 4.0
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- 9
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- 23
There are many points of departure in our attitudes to EFL, however. For one thing, I object to the term common throughout the book of the conventional EFL institution and the misguided ways in which they teach English. I work for one such institution, and I feel that we do more of the things that Diehl would like than he perhaps realises - and mine is not the only institution like that. In fact, I imagine that many readers will come to disagree quite strongly with some of Diehl's pronouncements.
About the core ideas behind teaching, again there is overlap in our beliefs, though this book should not be mistaken for a guide to teaching a la Scrivener or Thornbury, neither of whom I think are mentioned in this volume. Diehl works more to motivate his readers to reach a deeper understanding of English - in the same way that David Crystal often does - but some of his points don't quite stand up to scrutiny. The prioritisation of grammar over lexis is undone somewhat by an example that I noted for which you would need a lot of lexis to understand, but only the verb in the present simple or the infinitive form to navigate grammatically. This rather undermines the point.
All in all, would I recommend this book? Yes and no. To the novice teacher, I think not - there are some great ideas here but also many that I think are dead-end trails, and someone lacking in classroom experience could easily find themselves stuck if they were to do everything as Diehl says. But for a teacher with a year or two of experience, trying to put into words what it is that annoys them about EFL - there will be plenty here to get such readers thinking.… (mais)