Know Another Language-Know Another World

This competition for Wikipedia sounds great-competition is always a good thing. But I’m still not sold on the concept of instant editing. I just can’t bring myself to go along with it, i.e. trust it!

The Bilingual Brain learns English as a second language first as  basic skills needed to survive in a social setting.  It stands to reason in my opinion. Many of my students appear to have a terrific command of English when chatting with me or peers. What I want to teach them and what they must learn is the English they will use in an academic setting.

Beth sent me this Wiki for ELL teachers. Grammar, Listening skills, Speech, etc. Thanks, Beth!

I loved this short piece. Dogs can cure a lot of ailments we humans have.

If you want to brush up on your German, and I do, this ought to help.

Now this is how we should have learned a language in the ’70′s! One could really immerse herself in the everyday lives of the countrymen. It seems like a great method for college students. 

I have been carrying around the hard copy of this article since, well evidently,  Oct 8 or so. I think there is really something to this. . . that classrooms wired for sound, have students who are literally tuned in to the teaching going on. Having been an assistant to a SPED student who used an audio device to amplify sound and being now an ESL assistant to students to whom it is imperative to hear every sound/word spoken to commprehend, I feel such devices are and can be very valuable to specific groups of learners as well as to the able-bodied learner who just hasn’t had enough sleep from the night before. Such an audio system in the classroom seems to be a fairly economical answer.

Recently, I spent my afternoon in a workshop learning how to blog. Please bear with me while I learn . Like learning another language, I guess I’ll feel comfortable with it when I start to dream blogging. It is, afterall, truly another language!