Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 24th, 2009 1 Comment »
Skimming and scanning are two skills that I regularly ask students to exercise in my class. The typical EFL (English as a foreign language) student has done mostly intensive reading where a text is studied word by work and carefully dissected for grammatical patterns and complete comprehension. This style of study usually leads students to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 24th, 2009 1 Comment »
I can’t help but think of the musical/movie “Little Shop of Horrors” when I ever I encounter the word feed. In this movie a small venus-flytrap like plant requires a daily dose of blood from Seymour until the plant outgrows his caretaker. He then requires more… Yes you can only imagine. So, i return to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 7th, 2009 2 Comments »
Nate Wahlgren actually got me started using an RSS reader last year. One evening while on dorm duty Nate told me how the FA Wikipedia page has been hacked in the past to add odd, funny or offensive things. He and others have taken up the charge to correct errors as they arise. How does [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 7th, 2009 1 Comment »
The word “blog” is not yet recognized by spellcheck on my computer. I find this unforgivable since computers and their software are updated so frequently these days. For heaven’s sake, programmers should at least include their own terminology even if they may overlook the lingo of other fields.
As a language teacher, I’m particularly interested in the ethnographic [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 26th, 2009 3 Comments »
Well I have had some technical difficulties with my pictures blog in the US, but here in China I can’t even get to the site. I have just posted a link to the page on the right of this blog, but I’m not promising it will work perfectly yet. Hopefully Stateside everyone can read it [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 26th, 2009 2 Comments »
Soleil and I woke up about 4:00 am this morning and ate a breakfast of gorp and pretzels. Adjusting to a time zone that is precisely the opposite of where you have been is, to say the least, jarring. Luckily, we had plenty of sleep on the flight over. Only bad movies were playing and [...]
