English 5001

Change

Tina Bell English 5001 2 April 2009 Commentary Week 7 Our lives, our world is becoming more global with every passing day. Technology has given us avenues of connection we could only dream of before today, and every day brings…

needs of our people

Students have a hard enough time finding their identity in the academic realm without having to worry about whether or not they are going to be percieved as outsiders, foreigners, or Heaven forbid… “Wierdos.”  According to Ball  “It’s the way…

Teaching for Voice

The teaching of alternative dialects of English has always been a difficult subject. Many of the teachers I have personally experienced in my early education were clearly the product of a prescriptivist “Deficit Theory” approach. (Fox 65) It wasn’t until…

Commentary 3 & Commentary 4 5001

“Language Diversity in Teacher Education” Growing up, I was the victim of an ‘old school’ English teacher mother. To this day, any time I utter something that is less than perfect American English I can see her right eye twitch…

Commentary Week Eight

Mike Calou Commentary Week Eight The boy who seen the light I was torn by conflicting ideas when I finished reading the Tom Fox article “Basic Writing As Cultural Conflict.” One part of me thinks that teaching writing, particularly at…

Commentary: Preparing Them for Remediation?

I found Rearticulating Articulation by Russell and Foster a fascinating read.  A “cross-national perspective” really does shift the way one looks at oneself, one’s culture, and in this case, one’s educational system.    I didn’t realize that the United States…

The Battlefield

  A battlefield can provoke many different images in one’s mind. We see open fields amass with Redcoats and Bluecoats; painted warriors charging upon the enemy; snipers poised in their high towers, taking down one man at a time; bombs…