In Spring 2009 I volunteered to teach a conversational ESL class without any formal training. My class consisted of 10 students from 7 different countries. All of them tested at the basic level, but their speaking abilities ranged from an…
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Rebel’s Dilemma
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In “Rebel’s Dilemma”, bell hooks writes, “To a grave extent the academy has always been so similar to the dysfunctional patriarchal family hierarchy that hemmed me in as a child that I feel that I can never be truly healthy—well…
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Rearticulating Articulation, Standard English, and other myths.
by Shirley Miranda • • 0 Comments
In Rearticulating Articulation David Russel and David Foster certainly remind us of our sad and detrimental reality. Our educational system as a whole is no better than any other around the world. In fact, the issues of transition between high…
Cultural Snap Phooie
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When you have so many opinions and cultures weighing in on how writing should be taught, it is hard to decide what should be done. One over all questions I thought about as I read was, “Why don’t all educational…
US vs. Everyone Else: Where Do We Fall?
by MaryAnn Macedo • • 0 Comments
This week’s articles have given me a lot to think on, specifically about how America’s way of teaching writing relates to that of other countries. I have long been aware that our system is considerably different from that of others…
fox and li
by jocias • • 0 Comments
Nothing is “basic” about Tom Fox’s article on basic writing. While initiation theory attempts to bring students of all kinds into one homogenous group, it ignores the cultural differences of students and promotes a single-minded approach towards writing. This rings…
How to learn to write?
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This week reading is really interesting and thought provoking and raised one question will we ever have a consensus on anything in this world? No one can deny the reality that English is the Lingua Franca of the world…
The Right Way to Teach Write
by kmontero • • 0 Comments
The readings of this week highlight the difficulty of teaching writing within a culturally diverse world and the problems students face transitioning from their secondary education to the university. In Foster and Russell’s text “Rearticulating Articulation”, the authors create a…
Writing Culture Shock
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Cultural variations in writing not only refer to differences across countries but across schooling systems as well. When I began college, I was lost. A first generation college student, I had limited guidance in what I could expect from the…