词汇大师--What Sisters Say About Each Other

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: We're joined by Deborah Tannen, the Georgetown University linguist and author of best-selling books on how we communicate. Her early work focused on the different conversation sty

词汇大师-- Feeling Burned Out

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: The Olympic flame may be out in Vancouver, but we're just getting fired up over terms related to fire. RS: We lit on the idea after our friend and fellow master of words Grant Bar

词汇大师-- Top Banana Run Around Like a Chicken

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: English teacher Nina Weinstein explains some common idioms in American English. She likes teaching idioms in categories to help her students remember them. NINA WEINSTEIN: Often w

词汇大师-- Seeking to Rebuild Lives and Schools in Haiti

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: we meet two English teachers from Haiti. But first, an update on how schools are trying to reopen following the earthquake in January. VOA's Jeff Swicord was there as some students returned to classes

词汇大师-- English Teaching Is Music

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: we meet a newly trained English language teacher from Los Angeles. Curt Burich [BYUR-ick] was at the recent Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages convention in Boston to interview for jobs

词汇大师-- How to Help Your Baby Learn to Talk?

AA: I'm Avi Arditti, Rosanne Skirble is away. This week on WORDMASTER: baby talk. (MOVIE SOUND) The movie Babies is now showing in theaters in the United States. It's a documentary that follows four infants through their first year. Two of the famili

词汇大师-- Which Makes the Better Writer

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: we talk with an expert on children and handwriting. RS: Virginia Berninger is an educational psychology professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. She tells us about a

词汇大师-- What Terms Annoy You in Conversation

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: We talk about a recent poll taken to find out which words or phrases annoy Americans most in conversation. Here were the five choices. RS: Whatever, anyway, you know, it is what i

词汇大师-- How to Write an Essay?

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: what a teacher and a student have to say about writing a persuasive essay. DANNY SHEFFIELD: My name is Danny Sheffield and I teach in Bentonville, Arkansas, at Northwest Arkansas Community College. AA:

词汇大师-- Drink the Corporate Kool-Aid?

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: we're back with Ralph Keyes, author of the new book I Love It When You Talk Retro. RS: He explores the origins of terms that Americans use even if they are too young to remember w

词汇大师-- Finding the Right Expression of Sympathy

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: our friend English teacher Lida Baker joins us from Los Angeles to talk about expressions of sympathy. LIDA BAKER: The reason that this came up for me is that a friend of mine los

词汇大师-- If All Else Fails at a Party

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: If mixing with people at parties leaves you at a loss for words, writer Jeanne Martinet offers some help in an updated edition of her popular book The Art of Mingling. RS: Give us

词汇大师-- American English Hits a Homer

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: with Major League Baseball's championship series delayed by rain -- no World Series game has ever been suspended before -- we thought we'd step up to the plate and reprise a segme

词汇大师-- Step One to a Personal Statement

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: writing a personal statement for college. RS: Rachel Toor is the author of Admissions Confidential: An Insider's Account of the Elite College Selection Process. She worked for thr

词汇大师-- George Carlin, 1937-2008

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: remembering a comedian who took a serious interest in language. George Carlin died of heart failure at a hospital in Santa Monica, California, on June twenty-second. RS: The stand

词汇大师-- Handling Sensitive Topics in the Classroom

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: how should a teacher handle controversial topics in the classroom? Rutgers University professor Barbara Lee gets asked that question all the time, as she recently did through an o

词汇大师-- Talking Dictionaries on Web

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: we answer some questions from listeners. RS: Asad in Bangladesh and Emmanuel in Ghana ask somewhat related questions. Asad would like advice about a dictionary or a Web site to co

词汇大师-- A Fast Way to Make Yourself

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: More advice about giving oral presentations. Last week English teacher Nina Weinstein talked about ways to get mentally prepared. The most important part of any speech is you, Nin

词汇大师-- Looking Between the Covers for a Lesson

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: getting the most out of textbooks for English learners. Maria Spelleri, who teaches English for academic purposes, goes so far as to talk about getting intimate with a textbook. M

词汇大师-- Struggling for the 'Correct' Terminology

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and this week on Wordmaster: talking about disabilities. RS: Mark Aronoff is a linguist at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York. He says over the last twenty years, it's become difficult to find a m