POVERTY M.O. From Laurie Clarcq, a teacher in upstate New York in response to James: You are not an isolated example but you are a (Continue Reading)
POVERTY M.O. From Laurie Clarcq, a teacher in upstate New York in response to James: You are not an isolated example but you are a (Continue Reading)
CULTURE M.O. I know exactly where my wife messes up on these tests, These tests do reveal how well acculturated you are into the dominant (Continue Reading)
The Past is Present The past isn ever dead, it’s not even past. – Williams Faulkner (that bore repeating) God, the Devil, and truth in (Continue Reading)
NARRATIVE Without a doubt, when we get into the role of race in our society and in its formation, we will deal with narrative, but (Continue Reading)
Institutions Before segments like the Past is Present or My POV will make sense we have to examine the building blocks of society, its institutions. (Continue Reading)
World View http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2016-03-31/transportation-secretary-anthony-foxx-on-transportation-opportunity-and-the-legacy-of-the-u-s-highway-system a terrific example of how policies that create problems for minority communities come about and how not only their sequelae continue but (Continue Reading)
DEFINITIONS World view – this is the essence of this essay. I deliberately looked up world view neither in my reference books nor on line; (Continue Reading)
Method This has turned out to be disjointed, repetitive and prolix. This results not from my ineptitude, though uncharitable persons might say that, but from (Continue Reading)
PERSONAL This Magnum Opus has turned out to be less a matter of stitching together the elements of the exchange among five people than a (Continue Reading)
Magnum Opus April 7, 2016 The real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust This (Continue Reading)
Here and there on the blog I have referred to an exchange among five of us from the moretprs listserv. The exchange on education and (Continue Reading)
From Steve Austin: The Anthony that you cite without knowing who he is, is Edward Anthony, whose 1963 article in the Journal “English Language Teaching” (Continue Reading)
A message read: “Students learn information differently. They acquire languages in the exact same way.” The response was: “I respectively disagree with X on her (Continue Reading)
A standard language is one that cuts across regional differences and serves as an institutionalized norm. It is not superior to other varieties linguistically, it (Continue Reading)
In Benjamin & Butt I saw the term “Saxon genitive”. I’d never seen that. They mean the ’s possessive.
Allow me to step in despite my vow of silence. I am not sure that immersion means in-country. Immersion refers to a school program in (Continue Reading)
I think there have been a number of interesting points brought up in this sofar rather unwieldy discussion. I’ve tried to summarize as best I (Continue Reading)
When you decode, you are paying attention to the elements you are reading or hearing and focused on converting them into your language, English, in (Continue Reading)
This is a definition given by the U. of Texas modules on methods in teaching fl” pragmatics: How people communicate and interpret intentions, and react (Continue Reading)
OK, I’m going to go off here. I just got an e-mail from a long-time friend. He came to this country knowing little to no (Continue Reading)
I’ll add more to this later but I thought of several experiences I have had talking to persons in charge of running a fl program, (Continue Reading)
This term opens up the whole can of worms AND ball of wax. See the definition of “achiever” for a sense of the sort of (Continue Reading)
Grammar-translation Received wisdom is that the grammar-translation method was abandoned decades ago. Googling ’grammar-translation’, I found numerous articles, and the Wikipedia one showed signs of (Continue Reading)