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Languages, Diversity and teaching our children

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Pluralism is something we don’t think about too often but WE SHOULD, especially as language teachers, especially English language teachers.
Part of our role, wherever we are, is to educate our students about the incredible diversity of this planet, cultural/linguistic. Educate our students to embrace “the other” and love the other (if I may be so [...]

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Saturday, August 15, 2009

Headlines Around the World

Long ago, when lost in translation, in E. Europe, I was a copy editor for a English Chinese business magazine. I’d get the articles and polish them and send them back. This was in the very early days of the internet. Part of my job was rewriting the headlines. The Chinese were [...]

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The Teacher and “Cultural” conflict

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

One of the things any ESL / EFL / ESOL teacher cannot avoid is “culture”. We deal on this playing field, a classroom/school where cultures meet and collide, even if only our own and the native culture. So it is imperative that we teachers have a sensitive, refined understanding of how culture [...]

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