advocacy
April 12, 2016
Dear Everyboy, The other day I saw you at your new cashier job in Kroger – congratulations! The two women in front of me- wow, that was a situation, wasn’t it? Buying all those chips and Diet Coke with their food stamp card. Except their card only had $1.28 left on it. And their English […]
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June 16, 2014
Don’t smack me here, I know school JUST got out, but you know it’s true – it’ll be back before you know it! And one of our most important jobs in the first days of school is educating (and selling!) parents and students on proficiency-based teaching. I’m being hosted by The Webb School of Knoxville […]
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May 27, 2014
Stop calling this easy & fast
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As you navigate the internet, and particularly with Google and Facebook getting so smart and marketing to what seem to be your interests based on your internet activity, I’m sure you’ve seen some of these advertisements. You know- the ones that promise that you can learn any language you want. It’s easy! It’s fast! It’ll […]
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March 13, 2014
Is this the best we can do?
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Last September Martin Lapworth wrote a blog post called “On CI, TPRS, Acquisition, etc. (I so want to believe…)“. As I read it and the comments on it (which, incidentally, include one authored by CI king Stephen Krashen), I found myself asking a question that I’ve felt for a long time is forefront in the […]
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June 14, 2013
A world with no magazines
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I recently read Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. I don’t recommend it but I caught this great quote: Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet. I used to be a writer. I was a writer who wrote about TV and movies […]
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