Here is my theory: it is not that foreign language study is different from the study of other subjects, except to the extent that people do not realize study means practice. It and a few other subjects, are more labor intensive from a teaching point of view, however. And: I have had major trauma around … More Language program news
I am recovering from a fit of depressive pique I had over a question of academic identity, really. I see this now having pondered that post by Squadromatico, which is not only about what parts of life one gave up, or what parts of one’s ambitions remain unrealized, but more profoundly about what parts of … More On identity, and on a battle line
I do not have time to write it out now but these were the other things I and we saw, talking in real life today: – about research jobs and fields – about foreign language teaching – about being place sensitive – about the actual state of my manuscript – about how I could hit … More Placeholder
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I came across a piece today, that I cannot now find, but which said that large classes are good for working class students because they have to be taught in lock-step, which works better for these students. Middle class students, on the other hand, are those who shine with liberal teaching methods. Do you think … More Working class students, authoritarian methods
Self-esteem: por los suelos. Pressure, of every kind: high. Fatigue: extreme. Immediate Reason: the language program. I am so tired from it, and so traumatized from the language teaching wars. The trauma would end if we had a program with goals and policies, and if it were coherent and feasible and we all actually followed … More Today’s weather
“Bateson is undoubtedly correct in believing that the effects of the double bind on the child are particularly devastating. All the grown-up voices around him, beginning with those of the father and mother (voices which, in our society at least, speak for the culture with the force of established authority) exclaim in a variety of … More Girard
The meaning of it is that a majority of the country is more rational than not and also does not want to take on a truly nasty tone. This is why it is important that Obama won. If, as I do, you live in a state where people are willing to say directly, they will … More The meaning of the election
The other thing we were saying at that conference I went to a few weeks ago was that we had met some really mean and also supercilious people in academia and that that was why we had tried to get away from it. Colleague: Where do you expect to publish this book? Professor Zero: Routledge. … More On promise
This is, essentially, what I mean to say. I have not been much of a passive reader since the fifth grade, because I started writing in the sixth. In particular, I only occasionally read long novels for recreation; I do not normally find them relaxing or interesting, and I have to be relaxed and entertained … More Moria on Reading and Writing
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