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The sad decline of grammar :-) OR The Mo the Merrier

  10/29/2006       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Recently on one of the language Lists a discussion brewed up over the use of “less? in places where the grammar mavens insist on “fewer’. (Continue Reading)

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Self-censorship

  09/25/2006       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Recently I posted to the blog some comments about what goes on in my school. I thought it was balanced, but someone kindly pointed out (Continue Reading)

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NCLB a paranoid (properly so) view

  09/24/2006       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

This morning on npr I heard several letters from teachers regarding NCLB and its effects on their classrooms. They described their efforts to combat those (Continue Reading)

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Fun & Games

  09/24/2006       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Catalogues for language teachers usually have a section on games, quite a bit smaller than the section on how to teach the….. IO pronouns, subjunctive, (Continue Reading)

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“skills”

  09/24/2006       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The term “skill” is so often used in language learning we don’t seem to question it. But one person, I know for sure, did: Frank (Continue Reading)

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Research in the Classroom

  09/10/2006       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

From time to time, I read posts where the writer/teacher assures me that he has observed certain phenomena and no amount of SLA research will (Continue Reading)

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Covert Benefits & Advantages

  09/10/2006       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Common sense has its short-comings. The main short-coming is that common sense tends to be embedded in a culture. One of the great delights for (Continue Reading)

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School marms

  09/10/2006       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A recent post from a native speaker of Spanish appeared on one of the Lists. In it, she declared that the “v? and “b? of (Continue Reading)

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What I do in the classroom – concrete examples

  09/06/2006       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I’ve been asked to provide concrete examples of what I do in the classroom that has students using verbs in various persons and tenses (even (Continue Reading)

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Brain Research

  08/08/2006       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Interesting in-service today on brain research. Not that we all hadn’t heard most of it before. But it was well presented. I’ve just always been (Continue Reading)

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Why it’s Tough To Be a Teacher

  08/08/2006       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

School starts soon. I look forward to teaching; I do not look forward to school. Why is that? let’s start with the way I was (Continue Reading)

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Response to Marilyn’s post on flteach

  08/07/2006       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

And herein lies the glitch in communication (yeah, communications R us) on this List. I’ll bet you anything that Marilyn’s class is awash in Spanish. (Continue Reading)

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Curran’s Community Language Learning – response to Wes

  08/06/2006       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

May I offer Shrum & Glisan’s summary of Curran’s Community Language Learning (p. 446 3rd ed)? ?1976 – The teacher, in the role as “knower? (Continue Reading)

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How words change

  08/02/2006       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I just read a blurb from Studs Terkel containing two examples of language change. The blurb is: ?….uncannily captures the thoughts and hopes, inchoate though (Continue Reading)

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Censorship and political correctness: a fine line

  07/28/2006       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

On a fl teacher List recently there occurred an exchange on the issue of censorship. While I despise the term “politically correct? as an invention (Continue Reading)

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Tentative foray into politics

  07/28/2006       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The dictionary defines “foray? as a raid for plunder. So maybe “toe in the water? would be a better title. This is a response to (Continue Reading)

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Fear and Loathing

  07/06/2006       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A listener to a radio program called in to thank the guest for her “service toward our nation? illustrates the observations of a recent writer (Continue Reading)

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Political Correctness

  06/22/2006       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

cries of “p.c.? were raised Recently, Toni Morrison’s Beloved was selected as the best American novel of the last 25 years by a large panel (Continue Reading)

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Origins of English

  06/20/2006       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Here is a bibliography.  The page number citations will have to wait a bit as I will be on the road for a while.  But (Continue Reading)

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Where do ganas come from?

  09/16/2000       Pat Barrett      1 Comment

Recent comment on a mailing list: The best teacher, best curriculum, best school and the most per pupil expenditure cannot make a child learn against (Continue Reading)

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