Just because there's no snow in the tropics doesn't mean you can't get a slightly christmassy atmosphere here in #Taiwan. Just in time I completed the #Advent #Calendar for our department, but sadly with less content variety than I would have liked.

I can however not deny a general decline in certain skills among our students, one of them being counting/numerals/numbers. For example when I gave my first homework to current third-year students, the task was to write one sentence containing a number of specific grammatical features. Instead of one sentence, many gave me more, up to five sentences.

So I wasn't too surprised to find that students had opened the sachet with "11" on the first day of December. Numbers aren't that easy...
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