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A Cajun's journey through words: Addressing Falk's article "Language Acquisition and the Teaching and Learning of Writing"
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A Cajun's journey through words. Friday, July 8, 2011. Addressing Falk's article "Language Acquisition and the Teaching and Learning of Writing". Blog about Julia Falk’s article “Language Acquisition and the Teaching and Learning of Writing”. Above all, Falk encourages us to make mistakes. Through mistakes, we learn what is correct. Make mistakes in speaking and, when it’s gently corrected, one’s oral capacity improves. Understanding precedes speaking and reading precedes writing. For me, this became a j...
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A Cajun's journey through words: “On Reading On Writing Well”
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A Cajun's journey through words. Thursday, July 28, 2011. 8220;On Reading On Writing Well”. I live in the world of fiction and I don’t ever apologize about finding fiction truer than non-fiction. Truly, I have never seen the human condition as adequately detailed in a memoir as I have in A Light in August. I read The Awakening. For the first time during a summer in the Swiss Alps and, after five minutes of reading Chopin’s book, the mountains disappeared from my porch view. I was in south Louisiana.
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A Cajun's journey through words: poem "I am"
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A Cajun's journey through words. Monday, July 18, 2011. I am from Tony Chachere’s: black, white, and cayenne pepper mixed with salt,. Settled near the greasy stove and a simmering smothered steak. And a black iron skillet on the back burner and chilly beers inside the fridge. I am from that meager Cajun cottage kindly cooled by father water oak,. Last house on the left of Broussard Street; only we not Broussard’s brood. But I am also from Mama Cates’ carefully pruned camellia bushes. Fan letter to Dr....