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)
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)
Here is a statement made by a poster: “It seems terribly elitist to require students to use grammar unique to one country above the grammar (Continue Reading)
So now we go to the external forces that can hurt kids and teachers when classes are big: colleagues, supervisors, parents, and one’s own self-doubts. (Continue Reading)
I’ve thought and thought about this. The first image that comes to mind is of my old principal. Why was that? I realize that my (Continue Reading)
A poster wrote, concerning the Sarkozy divorce: “I wanted to check out the latest on the Sarkozy divorce and was surprised that my google query (Continue Reading)
I love this “reply” to the Turks by the Iraqi president, Talabani, who just happens to be a Kurd. “We are looking for peace, not (Continue Reading)
Dear old Watson…. no, not that Watson, the Nobel laureate Watson who has no standing in the sciences relating to intelligence, IQ, and “race”, …. (Continue Reading)
A current thread on a listserv has to do with the behavior of students and how classroom rules can affect that behavior and give something (Continue Reading)
Rather than list all the irritating things kids do, how about a discussion of what is going on with kids and which kids? All of (Continue Reading)
Here’s a post to a language teacher Listserv: “I’ve heard guácala used a lot by our Mexican teenage relatives who come to spend a year (Continue Reading)
Recently I read a post about tprs where the teacher said he didn’t like the lack of control over what the students were learning using (Continue Reading)
Anyone who looks at a REAL grammar of a language knows the complexity we language teachers deal with. A recent comprehensive grammar of English has (Continue Reading)
“OMG, they’re coming for us!” The upsurge in discussions of school violence stemming from two incidents in two days reveals the lack of knowledge that (Continue Reading)
Wes gave flteach members a website to go to on Amazon. The book is about how to advertise in various cultures based on the author’s (Continue Reading)
The lovely news from Iraq, always a joy to read esp after the administration cleans it all up for us, includes the story of two (Continue Reading)
Recently a large response was garnered when I offered a list of Latin words with their Romance reflexes. I got balled up in trying to (Continue Reading)
Here is a post from an extremely astute language teacher: I’ve been pondering something. Why is it that we think flash cards are a good (Continue Reading)