This is regarding my adventures at a high school I have been subbing in since September. I was asked to take this class over and (Continue Reading)
This is regarding my adventures at a high school I have been subbing in since September. I was asked to take this class over and (Continue Reading)
Steven Pinker writes in The Language Instinct, pp. 370 to 373: (after describing how ludicrous someone would sound complaining that the song of the humpback (Continue Reading)
Someone posted another diatribe against communicative teaching, citing the contents of a current textbook thus: Subject: Acquisition vs. Learning ……. 1. “conversational gambit 2. fill (Continue Reading)
Here’s a typical attitude toward English The rule for English as I taught it more than 30 years ago(!) in France is: One syllable adjectives (Continue Reading)
After a jillion posts back and forth, I share the frustration of the following post: I can’t help but wonder how many others on the (Continue Reading)
It would be helpful if this poster would not mischaracterize people’s views. It’s easy to dismiss attention to detail as “prescriptivist” The embedded statement here (Continue Reading)
These posts are what I was responding to (see my response at Read More): >Over 85% maybe?! > > >—– Original Message —– >> Subject: (Continue Reading)
Examine this post: ….Unfortunately I am not a native speaker, but sometimes I think that helps me out because as David stated before 90% of (Continue Reading)
I wonder where this phrase started. I’ve tried googling it with some help from flteach members but I still have a lot of work to (Continue Reading)
Here’s my initial foray into the whole vexing question of middle voice which is what deponents are about – most of them. I’ll take this (Continue Reading)
As I read posts on various listservs for language teachers, what I encounter seems to be a sort of faith-based approach to evidence. There is (Continue Reading)
Today I heard Hillary Clinton refer to herself as a woman running for president and that people should not forget that she is a woman. (Continue Reading)
Today my wife said, “These are they”. I cringe when I hear such butchery of English in the name of correctness. Looking for the lemonade (Continue Reading)
One Troy asked the following: what was I getting at in this post? My post: I pulled out the only book I have by John (Continue Reading)
The discussion on students is great. Without breaking that up, let me bring up another group we often complain about: the SLA researchers and researchers (Continue Reading)
I read a post, typical of many, in which a teacher declares that her students don’t care about doing anything well. Something tells me that (Continue Reading)
A student is lazy. A class is lazy. A whole school is lazy. A whole generation is lazy. Teachers are lazy. What lies behind this (Continue Reading)
Accidentlally, believe me, very accidentally, I hit upon a TV talk show called The View. A person named Laura Inghram was speaking. My wife says (Continue Reading)
Bunny’s post hit a nerve. She says exactly what I’ve said in the teeth of massive denial on the part of some List members: kids (Continue Reading)
Now that I’ve given a bit of a biographical background so you know “where I’m coming from” (a phrase unknown to me growing up), I (Continue Reading)
Recently, several events impinged on my dulling consciousness that jarred me into thought. A panel discussion on Book TV on the closing of the American (Continue Reading)
Let’s see what an English verb does. For all the grammar most fl teachers like to teach, I see evidence that they often don’t have (Continue Reading)
“Paradigms” is used here to refer to the way a language is analyzed in terms of its structures rather than its usages. So, for example, (Continue Reading)