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ESL Innovator: July 2014
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014. On Willpower and Language. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Center for Adult English Language Acquisition. Countries and Their Cultures. Ethnologue, Languages of the World. REEP Adult ESL Curriculum. US Literacy Directory of Programs. View my complete profile. Here's a comparison of some of the sections of the site over the last year. As always, thanks to everyone who has contributed so much. This does not inclu. Los Angeles Unified Expands Dual-Language, Bilingual Programs. Http:/ am...
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ESL Innovator: On Willpower and Language
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014. On Willpower and Language. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Center for Adult English Language Acquisition. Countries and Their Cultures. Ethnologue, Languages of the World. REEP Adult ESL Curriculum. US Literacy Directory of Programs. View my complete profile. Here's a comparison of some of the sections of the site over the last year. As always, thanks to everyone who has contributed so much. This does not inclu. Los Angeles Unified Expands Dual-Language, Bilingual Programs.
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ESL Innovator: November 2008
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008. New Report on Young Dual Language Learners Published. A new report I co-authored entitled " Dual Language Learners in the Early Years: Getting Ready to Succeed in School. Is now published online. The report has four major sections: Data Sources and Gaps, Getting Ready for Kindergarten, Getting Ready for First Grade, and Assessing Language Factors that Predict Academic Success for Dual Language Learners. Sunday, November 9, 2008. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I'm an ESL professor...
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ESL Innovator: March 2009
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Teaching - Not a Talking Head like in Your Experience. With that attention constraint in mind, I design tasks that ask the students to be active. What it comes down to at the most basic level is that if they are tuned-out, they are certainly not learning or retaining anything. And of course, without practice, where would any of us be? So my work as a true professor comes not during the class at all, but before. Sunday, March 29, 2009. Taking the Mystery out of Grading Writing.
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ESL Innovator: August 2011
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Saturday, August 20, 2011. The Ideal Language Assessment. Is when they are faced with the challenge of demonstrating their "competence" in a language that is not their own. But why invent something so artificial when there are so many actual communicative tasks (that require grammar knowledge and accuracy) people complete naturally every day? Is the best attempt to provide this information to ELLs. What I would have done for a similar dictionary when I was studying Italian or Spanish! Despite this improv...
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ESL Innovator: June 2009
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Monday, June 22, 2009. When I first realized that my college was listed on ratemyprofessors.com, I started madly searching for professors in knew within my department. The reviews varied from being rather general to extremely telling and crudely honest. And then the thought occurred to me: “Oh sh*t, are there reviews about my teaching? IT IS A BORING WASTE OF TIME AND YOU DON’T LEARN ANYTHING! SHE IS A WITCH! 8221; there is not much to say in a rebuttal, is there? At first, I thought the site could be a ...
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ESL Innovator: September 2011
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011. Just the Idea of Change, Please. Even overlooking the obvious reasons why this is a tough and unfair job does not mean that a logical person will be prepared for the animosity and defensiveness that will come from trying to change the final exam, and thus, *gasp* trying to affect what other professors are doing in their classrooms (even if the change is positive, mind you). Mean that the specific grammar skill will transfer to production (speaking or writing). First of all, s...
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ESL Innovator: Improving Upon Nature (Well, Natural Communication)
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Sunday, August 7, 2011. Improving Upon Nature (Well, Natural Communication). Something similar I'm doing in my speaking class now is having a whole class discussion about topics related to the chapters and their goal is to speak communicatively in response to the questions but competing to use as many of our vocabulary words as possible. One of my students commented that it was a really helpful activity for her because she was speaking "naturally" (meaning "spontaneously"). Rate of language acquisition.
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ESL Innovator: July 2008
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Monday, July 28, 2008. We are immersed in an age of accountability, which has set the scene for some U.S. school districts to implement the controversial practice. I recently came across Rick Stiggins' articles " From Formative Assessment to Assessment FOR Learning: A Path to Success in Standards-Based Schools. And " What a Difference a Word Makes. A more frequent assessment intended to guide teacher instruction) as Stiggins describes it include:. 4 Students who have been taught how to evaluate their own...
