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May 24, 2011 •
By the way for one hour a week I’m going to be going into an elementary school to work with a little girl who speaks Spanish and help her to learn English. I’m told she understands English, but has a hard time speaking it. Does anyone have any ideas on projects I can do or...
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May 24, 2011 •
By the way I’m teaching some students English as a side job during the summer, and their biggest concern seems to be pronunciation. I am a member of a website, though, where that’s not always the case. I’m making documents to help people for whom English is not their native language, and I was wondering...
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May 24, 2011 •
Hello! What books would you recommend to an 13 year old girl who is learning English as a second language? The purpose is to stimulate her interest in English, enlarge her vocabulary and learn more grammar. The girl is kinda intimidated whenever she is required to speak English in class. Answer: We think the book...
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May 23, 2011 •
Apart from pennycook’s ideas, in my opinion, promoting the problematizing spirit can be done by identifying where we fit in these tentative four epistemological categories:(1) I know that I know;(2) I know that I don’t know;(3) I don’t know that I know; and (4)I don’t know that I don’t know.They are not necessarily sequaenced as...
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May 14, 2011 •
Let me now turn our attention to my personal contemplation:I know some spiritual insights that have influenced my life, but I do not (and certainly will never) know the totality of how being”critical”reflects spirituality. In a religiously affiliated educational institution in which I belong to at present, to be”critical” may be comprehended as putting”worldly” worldviews...
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May 14, 2011 •
One of the central thoughts of a Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin’s (1981) philosophy of language is heteroglossia (p. 263). It is a field in which the contesting forces in discourse (centripetal versus centrifugal forces) intersperse and class (p. 272 onwards). Centripetal forces contain an authoritative voice4 that usually necessitates people to obey or at...