https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItODnX5geCM
From the interview with David Crystal in Belgrade on 9 November 2013Interviewer: Tony O'Brien, British Council Director Western Balkans

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David Crystal - The Biggest Challenges for Language Teachers (Also relevant for language learners!) ... For example, when I was studying Chinese the Beijing teacher would shoot down any examples of speech that weren't Beijing-standard; which hurts because Taiwan has some different speech patterns etc. So I thought that was good advice.

https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2019/07/09/interviewing-david-crystal/
Professor David Crystal is widely acknowledged as the world's foremost expert on the English language. He's published over 100 books on English, among them the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, now in its third edition. Professor Crystal was a keynote speaker at the 2019 Better Learning Conference at Robinson College in Cambridge.

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David Crystal's 50 questions about English usage (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), in the series Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers (ed/ Scott Thornbury), 112 pp. 9781108959186. 03.04.2021

https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2019/06/18/david-crystal-outstanding-contribution-eltons/
Last week, the ELT community celebrated the very best innovations in teaching and learning worldwide, at the ELTon awards. For us, the highlight of the evening was seeing our very own Cambridge University Press Author, David Crystal, receive the highly coveted Outstanding Achievement Award. Adding to the literary atmosphere, the award was

https://www.davidcrystal.com/Files/BooksAndArticles/-5317.pdf
Professor David Crystal is a linguist, lec- turer, editor and author of more than 100 books. He talks to Spotlight about the state ofthe English language today, the pace of change and English as a global and cultur- al language.By JULIAN EARWAKER Spotlight: If you were a doctor giving the English language a health check today,

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As David Crystal put it in an interview for TEFL Equity Advocates: 'All sorts of people are fluent, but only a tiny proportion of them are sufficiently aware of the structure of the language that they know how to teach it.' So if recruiters care about students' progress, I suggest taking an objective and balanced view when hiring teachers

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From the interview with David Crystal in Belgrade on 9 November 2013 Interviewer: Tony O'Brien, British Council Director Western Balkans. From the interview with David Crystal in Belgrade on 9 November 2013 Interviewer: Tony O'Brien, British Council Director Western Balkans ... David Crystal - The Biggest Challenges for Teachers. 139 thousand

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The challenge is to get the semantic side and the pragmatic side into your studies. ... I'm an English language teacher. My question for David Crystal is: www.oald8.com (The Oxford Learners' Dictionary) has a lot of new words from Urdu such as ' badam' ' chai' ' aloo' ' bagh' ' dharna' and many more. ... Big up yourself

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/seminar_the_future_of_english-coping_with_culture.pdf
Professor Crystal considers it vital to work with someone from outside the culture to garner a true appreciation of inherent differences. The implication is that cultural studies need to play a more significant role in language instruction than previously thought. Data must be collected to illuminate the exact nature of cultural differences.

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From the interview with David Crystal in Belgrade on 9 November 2013Interviewer: Tony O'Brien, British Council Director Western Balkans

https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/crystal-on-the-multiplicity-of-the-english-language
David Crystal examines the prominent rise of the English language and discusses the variations in formal and informal written and spoken word that shape identities and social relations all over the world. [T]he standard language is not a homogenous phenomenon, internally consistent throughout in the way it uses pronunciation, spelling, grammar

https://www.davidcrystal.com/Files/BooksAndArticles/-5172.pdf
Dear Professor David Crystal, ... One of his biggest challenges is sorting out the politeness differences between the two languages/cultures. ... When a group of people in a country (such as students, teachers, or businessmen) talk to me in English about everyday affairs, the subject-matter of their conversation inevitably

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out from three prerequisites: David Crystal's statement that the 'the greatest challenge for the teachers' is that 'they must keep pace with t he language change, given that languages change so fast'(2013), it is studied and u sed everywhere in the world, and the need to eliminate the mismatch between the l anguage taught in

https://www.languagepoint.eu/en/2021/05/04/david-crystal-lets-talk-how-english-conversation-works/
David Crystal is an expert on the English language and one of the world's most known linguists. This interview is about his book Let's Talk. About; Language Courses. English; Italian for foreigners; Other languages; Training. Corporate; School; Teacher; International Examination and Testing. Cambridge Assessment English; Linguaskill; Soft

https://books.google.com/books/about/Making_Sense.html?id=9MydDgAAQBAJ
In Making Sense, David Crystal confronts the foe of many: grammar. Once taught relentlessly to all students in the English-speaking world, grammar disappeared from most school curricula, so that terms such as "preposition" and "conjunction" now often confound children and adults alike. Explaining the nuts and bolts of grammar presents a special challenge, because - far more than is the case

https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2021/03/08/the-cultural-gap/
For my book, David Crystal's 50 Questions About English Usage, I selected questions that have come in over recent years, paying particular attention to those asked more than once.Reflecting further on these 50 answers, I'm struck by the way cultural and social factors - as opposed to purely linguistic ones - have come to play an increasingly important part in explanations.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43020192
aa way of enjoying the rewards of sharing in different cultures and, second, his belief "in the fundamental value of a common language" (viii) for better mutual understand-. ing and cooperation in the world. Crystal points out the ambivalent feelings of non-native speakers about the primacy of English despite its utility.

https://app.fluentize.com/blog/non-native-english-teachers/
As non-native English teachers, we bring a wealth of unique advantages to the classroom that enhance the learning experience for our students. Our backgrounds and personal journeys with the English language equip us with a deeper empathy and understanding, which we can use to connect with and inspire our learners.

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From the interview with David Crystal in Belgrade on 9 November 2013 Interviewer: Tony O'Brien, British Council Director Western Balkans ... Challenges .At.Midlife.2022-17.Blm-Asya.Mekani.Com. 317 просмотров ... David Crystal - The Biggest Challenges for Teachers. 23 дек 2014 27

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David Crystal - The Biggest Challenges for Teachers. This is the second part of Crystal's interview. In this video Crystal talks about the challenges for teachers. He says, The biggest challenge is without a doubt to keep a pace with language change. Language is changing so fast and it has two reasons, 1.

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This shift challenges the traditional control of English, moving it away from British and American native speakers and towards a more inclusive global communication framework. ... David Crystal's talk at IELTS Conference 'The Future of English', Prague 2014 (British Council) ... Teacher Luke • 8. The Future of English: a Welsh perspective

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Use the link below and watch David Crystal describing the challenges of a teaching profession. Before you watch the video, discuss the questions with your fellow students. ... The biggest challenge is to keep pace with language change. It's changing for two reasons: ... Teachers' salaries should be increased four times or even more. 6) Job

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Rishi Sunak took questions from workers at a pottery plant in Derbyshire a short while ago - but they didn't exactly heap on the praise. One worker told the PM that things had got "infinitely