Yeah, she is an adorable little furball! Love her to death!

No, I will never say that somebody without qualifications to teach should be teaching. But as said previously, I would take a native speaker with classroom based TEFL and no degree/unrelated degree over a non-native speaker any day. They non-native speaker will always be lacking in fluency compared to a native speaker. This is for conversational classes only, mind you. Unqualified teachers have no place in real classroom settings, no matter where they're from.

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Fair enough-as long as they can have a stick of chalk and a blackboard. I mean, there are oral teachers on the job at the moment. They don't get involved in more advanced grammar. It would be silly to say they don't have to instruct any grammar to correct the conversational English. Wotever that Turnoi geezer says I am degreed and I do have a TEFL, and not one printed out by "My dear training centre." I am only saying this in order to follow up by saying, I do not call myself a qualified teach, because I'm not.

I gather you're a minimalist? You always have a clean and tidy home. I would like the same but not with this little madam who frightened me to death today because I couldn't find her, but there she was, and has found a plant pot.

Frankly, by this stage I'd hire my dog to teach before I'd hire Turnoi!

Charming creature.

No i wouldn't expect my degeeless to know what all the process and rules are called. But for oral English he would know what's right and wrong, which is a hell of a lot more than Turnoi does. I am only talking about conversational English. My man can do the job and second languagers simply cannot. My man didn't get your stamp of approval exactly but I'll have to settle for the lovely dog picture. Thank you.

No, it's not incorrect word order, it is an example of emphasis with inversion! Certainly not 'sub-standard' language, whatever that means!

I thought you taught tertiary English? But you don't know about emphasis with inversion? Oh dear!

Keep digging your hole, Turnoi!

Sigh. TPR is not making faces, nor is it dancing. You don't have the faintest idea about YL teaching or, it seems, advanced level language teaching either! Bravo! In one post you have managed to look foolish in both disciplines! Quite an achievement, even for you!

Hahaha! Now somebody tell me that my retired degreeless natural speaking bog attendant isn't going to teach better English to the Chinese!!??