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Lida Baker teaches English and writes textbooks in Los Angeles
Learning English by Listening, Um, to How People, Uh, Really Speak It
Listen as English teacher Lida Baker, out with a new textbook called "Real Talk," discusses the growing use of authentic listening materials in language classes
Forget 'Chicken' and 'Egg,' What Comes First With 'After' and 'Before'?
T Is for Trouble: Consonants Lead to Dissonance for an English Learner
Gerunds vs. Infinitives, Part 2
Gerunds vs. Infinitives, Part 1
June 22, 2005 - Emotion in Words
May 11, 2005 - Audience Mail
April 27, 2005 - Compounding in English
February 22, 2005 - Greetings in the U.S.
January 26, 2005 - Questions About Pronunciation and Style
December 22, 2004 - Lida Baker: Five New Year's Resolutions for English Learners
November 24, 2004 - Lida Baker: Compliments in American English
October 7, 2004 - Lida Baker: Crafting a Complaint
August 12, 2004 - Lida Baker: Present Perfect Tense
July 8, 2004 - Lida Baker: Common Sentence Errors
May 20, 2004 - Lida Baker: Voiced and Voiceless Sounds in English
April 15, 2004 - Lida Baker: Stress in American English
March 4, 2004 - Lida Baker: Keyword Method as a Memory Aid
January 22, 2004 - Lida Baker: Phrasal Verbs
October 2, 2003 - Lida Baker: Thought Groups in Spoken English
September 4, 2003 ¡X Lida Baker: Informality in the Classroom
June 26, 2003 - Lida Baker: Encouraging English Learners to Talk in Class, Part 2
June 19, 2003 - Lida Baker: Encouraging English Learners to Talk in Class, Part 1
April 3, 2003 - Lida Baker: War and English Teaching
February 20, 2003 - Lida Baker: Linking and Blending
January 16, 2003 - Lida Baker: Reduced Forms
November 14, 2002 - Lida Baker: Listener Questions
October 10, 2002 - Lida Baker: Names in America
August 15, 2002 - Lida Baker: Exceptional Verbs
June 20, 2002 - Lida Baker: Modals
May 23, 2002 - Lida Baker: Making a Request
April 7, 2002 - Lida Baker: Pronouncing 'th'
March 3, 2002 - Lida Baker: Using a Dictionary
January 20, 2002 - Lida Baker: Acquiring Vocabulary
December 9, 2001 - Lida Baker: Stress in American English
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