Reading for 2/16

My husband found it amusing that I was reading a chapter on Teaching Listening. He frequently accuses me of being a poor listener myself. I argue that he is poor at noticing my subtle body language that I use as a response to his seemingly rhetorical questions.

Anyway, I think teaching listening is an important skill, not to be overlooked when teaching a second language. In fact, I believe it should be taught in early elementary school to native speakers as well. I found some of the skills discussed in HDB ch 18 to be similiar to those taught for academic reading--e.g. scanning for key words and phrases. I suppose that is because some academic texts are similar to reading in another language.

So as I was writing the above paragraph I was wondering about the correct punctuation for "i.e.", so I looked at this web site--http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/e.g.html--only to find that I was mistaken in my use of abriviations. I always thought "eg" stood for example (which I guess it does), but I had the spelling off. Phonetically it would be egg-sample, and that's not correct. Example/egg-sample. Listen. You'll see what I mean.

I'd really like to hear from a non-native speaker on their experiences with English dialects. Although I'm sure they don't run into that around here since we all speak properly don't cha know, but if they've been elsewhere in the US of A.