**** ETNI on the web http://www.etni.org.il http://www.etni.org **** -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [etni] [FWD: Re: quicktionaries]] From: "howard sibirsky" <howdon@xxxxxxxxxx> An answer may be for teachers to earn a living. Look around you right now. See all those products that you own to make your life not only easier but to have more options and do your thing more efficiently. The difference with those who do not agree with me may lie in the fact that I have taught foreign language in the USA. We used modern methology including programmed texts, language labs, and so on. The system was so successful that the head of the English Department at our Connecticut High School complained. He complained that the student body was speaking and writing English using Spanish grammar. So, we cannot argue nor successfully discuss this question because we both have experienced our own "system", but you have not experienced the one I used years ago in a foreign, so foreign, land. Good luck Hanan Fay wrote: > In answer to Howard - why bother to teach English at all ? > Fay ##### To send a message to the ETNI list email: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ##### ##### Send queries and questions to: ask@xxxxxxxx #####