The communist method of error correction
According the the IHT, font of all wisdom, the Chinese are asking people to dob each other in for making mistakes in English:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/22/opinion/edterril.php
I’ve always been a bit of a classroom discipline fascist, but even I think that is going a bit too far…
In other Japan or teaching related news, the British are soon going to be taking on the salaryman habit of reading rape manga on the train, apparently:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/21/arts/gnovel.php
Japanese Railways show that Anglo-American short termism hasn’t reached some parts of the economy yet, with a plan to introduce a new train by 2025 (by which year Virgin Trains in England are also planning to get today’s departure from London Euston to its destination in Glasgow):
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200708230070.html
Either that, or it was yet another quiet news day in Japan…
Meanwhile, in Malaysia Gwen Stefani does cover her body (but not her mouth, unfortunately) and her concert goes off without scandal:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/22/arts/peepthu.php
The article doesn’t say, however, if she kept to the rules saying female performers may not “…jump, shout,…or throw things are the audience”. Made me wonder how ALTs (Assistant Language Teachers) in Primary schools would cope under the same restrictions, but lack of time means I will have to keep that repressive fantasy to myself for the time being…