Archive for March, 2010
The Global Snakebite Initiative Is Working to Improve Treatment for Victims
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. More than four million people around the world are bitten by snakes each year. At least one hundred twenty-five thousand of these people die. Almost three million others are seriously injured. Doctors and researchers say the world does not provide enough good treatment for poisonous snakebites. To [...]
English Teacher in Cameroon Sends a Positive Message About Texting
AA: I’m Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: another conversation from last month’s international convention in Denver, Colorado, for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. MARTINA MBAYU NANA: “I am Martina Mbayu Nana. I teach English as a foreign language in Lycee Joss, Douala, Cameroon.” AA: “And so you were telling [...]
Studying in the US: Beware of Essay Mills
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We continue our discussion of plagiarism. Last week, we said colleges and universities in the United States define plagiarism as representing another person’s work as your own. It is considered a kind of cheating. Professors at American colleges have tried many ways to stop student plagiarism. Some [...]
