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)
Pat’s Polemics
On-going brilliance
Response to Marilyn’s post on flteach
08/07/2006 Pat Barrett Add CommentAnd 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)
Curran’s Community Language Learning – response to Wes
08/06/2006 Pat Barrett Add CommentMay 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)
How words change
08/02/2006 Pat Barrett Add CommentI 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)
Censorship and political correctness: a fine line
07/28/2006 Pat Barrett Add CommentOn 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)
Tentative foray into politics
07/28/2006 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe 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)
Fear and Loathing
07/06/2006 Pat Barrett Add CommentA 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)
Political Correctness
06/22/2006 Pat Barrett Add Commentcries 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)
Origins of English
06/20/2006 Pat Barrett Add CommentHere 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)
Where do ganas come from?
09/16/2000 Pat Barrett 1 CommentRecent 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)