Monthly Archives: March 2011

Comments from a teacher attending a TESOL conference.”When I go to TESOL, I try to take some time to go to a session that may not be directly related to my work as a teacher educator and professional developer. It is a way for me to explore and ex… Continue reading →

I had not noticed that I omitted to post the last part of the conversation. Sorry about that. Here it is. Continue reading →

Here is the first of two articles entitled “Tips on Mastering a Second Language” . If we wade through the socio-linguistic jargon, the message is that you have to want to learn a language in order to learn it. It is, however, not true that you hav… Continue reading →

The second in this series of discussions on different aspects of language learning. Continue reading →

This ambitious program to bring native English speaking teachers to Turkey is described here. One interesting comment at the bottom of the article says”The ministry is also preparing multimedia centers in schools to pave the way for distance Engli… Continue reading →

One problem in learning a new language is that for a long time, there are certain words that just sound the same. It is not so bad when we listen or read, since the context helps us out. However, when we go to use the word, we really need to know … Continue reading →

Nuclear radiation seems to be a subject that people cannot talk about without a degree of hysteria. Here is an interesting article that points out that the greatest human suffering may come from the hysteria rather than the radiation itself. Here … Continue reading →

This is the next in a series of discussions with Susanna Zaraysky, author of Language is Music. Susanna is fluent in 7 languages. Continue reading →

We regularly hear generalized comments about different national groups, Americans, Germans, Japans, and just about everybody else. Here in this video newsreport we see a group of Chinese workers in Montreal who were told they “ate like pigs” by a … Continue reading →

I have found that many adult ESL teachers, although not all as we can see below, want to agents for social change as much as agents for language learning. This comes through loud and clear on the Listserv that I occasionally read. One head of a st… Continue reading →