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The semester has started!!!
First of all, I have to say that I am blessed with wonderful students - for the first time in a long time, I am getting emails and questions OUTSIDE of class time about class CONTENT and not just management - students questioning things I say or asking for more information!! So I guess I have excellent groups or I am doing something better that the frequency is increasing.

There's one pet peeve I have and that is students asking the following question: "Do we really have to read the TKT course/Spendlove book" (there are 2 required readings for 2 different courses)?

And my answer is the following:
"Are you telling me that you have something AGAINST more knowledge and understanding of the topics? Are you telling me that you only want to do the MINIMUM and you are only thinking about your GRADE at the end of the course?"

So I also tell them that if they have looked through the books and feel like they know the material, then that's fine - but most of the time they indicate that they have not even opened the books so how can they actually judge? And I think very few students would know the content of the books and be able to apply it to their classrooms because even myself, after years of teaching, can pick up both books and learn something new or remember something I had not thought about in a long time.

So that's my answer, dear students!!

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