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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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