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The Cuban Healthcare System

  07/22/2007       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

In a post today, June 22, to flteach, a New York teacher cited a documentary film on the Cuban healthcare system in response to posts (Continue Reading)

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Warm Fuzzies

  07/21/2007       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Kristy Placido put a message out on moretprs thanking everyone and acknowledging the honor of receiving an award at NTPRS. She made it very clear (Continue Reading)

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Please look at the dates

  07/21/2007       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Look at the dates of the “assignments” listed here (this is from a List I am on that deals with slavery): The court records of (Continue Reading)

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Old South/New South

  07/21/2007       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Today there was a piece on npr about the Jackson (Mississippi) Advocate, a newspaper renowned for its strong civil rights stand. What is germane to (Continue Reading)

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Sicko

  07/20/2007       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Some of the posts on flteach are addressing the movie Sicko because it deals with the health care system in countries like Canada, France and (Continue Reading)

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Response to What’s Interesting About Grammar

  07/02/2007       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

After the initial responses on this thread, I stopped responding to individual posts and printed out all the subsequent posts up to the point where (Continue Reading)

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Well, here then, take it!!!

  07/02/2007       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

As we received news of the Supreme Court’s decision in school integration cases, there was something about the term ’color blind’ that tickled my memory. (Continue Reading)

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Signs of the times – linguistically

  07/01/2007       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Despite being a modest sort, I am forced to admit that I live in a tony, up-scale neighborhood. I found it interesting that one of (Continue Reading)

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Against the grain…

  07/01/2007       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Just to encourage those of you who are trying to hold on to some values and standards in a new America where both have been (Continue Reading)

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Strange & monitory dictionary experience

  06/28/2007       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

As I was wandering through the house talking to myself, I found myself using the word ’instantiate’. “That’s a rare word,” I thought, “I wonder (Continue Reading)

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Gratitude

  06/27/2007       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I just want to than Wes Groleau for making this blog possible. He works very hard and displays great patience with me. I am truly (Continue Reading)

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Teachers should tremble…..

  06/27/2007       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Why should teachers tremble? Listen to several things my 5 year old granddaughter has said recently. She starts kindergarten July 23. When I asked her (Continue Reading)

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Old Ship of Zion

  06/26/2007       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

No, I haven’t turned religious; it’s just the title of a great book I just finished. It’s by William F. Pitts, deceased, who did field (Continue Reading)

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Extrapolating from rules… does it work?

  06/26/2007       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

This to me is at the heart of the controversies in foreign language teaching. Teachers believe that teaching the intricate grammatical, phonological and syntactic rules (Continue Reading)

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The relation between writing and language

  06/19/2007       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Recently in a post on a listserv a member showed a great deal of concern about a statement that an American had gone to France, (Continue Reading)

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Unions

  06/15/2007       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The following post to a listserv speaks to the whole issue of why have any sort of professional organization. Here ’tis: I never thought I’d (Continue Reading)

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Teaching Spanish-Speaking Children in the 50s

  06/14/2007       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

As I was reconfiguring my library I came across a book titled Teaching Spanish-Speaking Children by L.S. Tireman, published in 1951. I was 10 and (Continue Reading)

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certification, reasons for

  06/09/2007       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

In response to a job-seeker highly qualified to teach Chinese EXCEPT for not having a h.s. certificate, I responded on a List thus: Having seen (Continue Reading)

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My Eternal Gripe

  06/01/2007       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Over and over again, good-hearted people join the bandwagon of grammar mavens. Grammar maven is a term coined by William Safire as ’language maven’, as (Continue Reading)

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Virginia Tech

  04/21/2007       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

On one of the foreign language teacher listservs the incident at Virginia Tech was discussed in a few posts. One in particular was poignant: a (Continue Reading)

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key clubs

  03/04/2007       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Whenever teachers get to talking about the good old days, I get a sneaking suspicion that either they are not old enough to remember those (Continue Reading)

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Response to mw

  01/07/2007       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

M.W. posted the following to a listserv: *Pat, I teach Spanish. *I want the grammar for communication. *I also would like to know how much (Continue Reading)

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Reaction to Bill VanPatten thread 2

  12/31/2006       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I finally read all 200 posts on the thread started by the SLA (Second Language Acquistion) researcher and author, Bill VanPatten (bvp). He asked fl (Continue Reading)

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