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What is Listening Skill? – EnglishCentral: The Official Blog
"Developing strong listening skills in a second language can be difficult for students. In fact, teaching listening skills is a challenge for teachers, too. One reason for this is that the actual process of listening, or what we mean by “listening skill” is not very well understood. "
- What is Listening Skill?
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Purdue OWL: APA Formatting and Style Guide
- In APA Style, the Introduction section never gets a heading and headings are not indicated by letters or numbers.
- Headings, ¶3
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Sunday, November 30, 2014
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Sunday, November 23, 2014
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How to learn a new language: 7 secrets from TED Translators | TED Blog
Aparta, Krystian. (2014, November 4). How to learn a new language: 7 secrets from TED Translators [web blog post]. Retrieved from http://blog.ted.com/2014/11/04/how-to-learn-a-new-language-7-secrets-from-ted-translators/
Sunday, November 16, 2014
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- We have radically altered our own evolved species behavior by segregating children artificially in same-age peer groups instead of mixed-age communities, by compelling them to be indoors and sedentary for most of the day, by asking them to learn from text-based artificial materials instead of contextualized real-world activities, by dictating arbitrary timetables for learning rather than following the unfolding of a child’s developmental readiness.
- When you see children who do not learn well in school, they will often display characteristics that would be valued and admired if they lived in any number of traditional societies around the world. They are physically energetic; they are independent; they are sociable; they are funny. They like to do things with their hands. They crave real play, play that is exuberant, that tests their strength and skill and daring and endurance; they crave real work, work that is important, that is concrete, that makes a valued contribution. They dislike abstraction; they dislike being sedentary; they dislike authoritarian control. They like to focus on the things that interest them, that spark their curiosity, that drive them to tinker and explore.
- when you push a child to do something she simply developmentally can not do, you create a profound belief that (a) I hate this; (b) I can’t do this; (c) I will never be able to do this, and (d) There’s something wrong with me.
- Human cognitive diversity exists for a reason; our differences are the genius – and the conscience – of our species. It’s no accident that indigenous holistic thinkers are the ones who have been consistently reminding us of our appropriate place in the ecological systems of life as our narrowly-focused technocratic society veers wildly between conservation and wholesale devastation of the planet. It’s no accident that dyslexic holistic thinkers are often our artists, our inventors, our dreamers, our rebels.
- Science is a tool of breathtaking power and beauty, but it is not a good parent; it must be balanced by something broader, deeper, older. Like wind and weather, like ecosystems and microorganisms, like snow crystals and evolution, human learning remains untamed, unpredictable, a blossoming fractal movement so complex and so mysterious that none of us can measure or control it.
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"The main part of this website, the History, can be read as a kind of story, in chapters, following the development of the English language from its Indo-European origins, through Old English and Middle English to Early Modern English and Late Modern English, before a brief look at English Today. But there is also section on Language Issues (including How New Words are Created, Language and Geography and English as a Global Language), a Timeline of important dates in the development of English, a Glossary of some of the technical and historical terms used, and a list of Sources and Links." (Introduction, ¶5)
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Learning Without Pressure: English Writing MOOCs for an International Audience | The EvoLLLution
For a writing class with initial enrollment in the tens of thousands, as well as for a class with enrollment in the teens, Sokolik advocated "approaching writing as a method of inquiry, discovery and expression" (Acitve Learning, ¶1), and said she had identical goals, namely for students "to write well, to engage with ideas in meaningful ways and to write in a way to attract a wider audience" (Active Learning, ¶4).
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Perfecting English grammar can be a long process; this fact should not prevent students from diving into writing, regardless of their level of grammatical proficiency. Requiring students to focus constantly on grammar, and not on writing, is like requiring the novice home cook to focus constantly on knife skills, never allowing him or her to cook a meal.
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Writing Resources | ESC Online Writing Center | SUNY Empire State College
For students learning to write for academic purposes, the Writing Resources section of the Empire State College Online Writing Centre site provides access to a range of self-development material. Sub-sections of the material include: Academic Writing Research Writing Critical Reading and Writing Grammar Punctuation Writing Exercises ELL/ESL Resources
Sunday, November 09, 2014
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Grammar resources - University of Chicago Writing Program
"An annotated collection of grammar and writing resources from around the web" (deck, 2014.11.07).
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Resources & Referrals - National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity
The Readings: Academic Writing section of this resource page includes over half a dozen books with links to Amazon.com listings of them.
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"The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of 55 authors" (Welcome to WALS Online, ¶1, 2014.11.07).
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Teamwork Behaviors: A Review and ... preview & related info | Mendeley
Rousseau, V., Aubé, C., & Savoie, A. (2006). Teamwork Behaviors: A Review and an Integration of Frameworks. Small Group Research, 37(5), 540–570. doi:10.1177/1046496406293125
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Tomorrow's Professor eNewsletter: 1361. Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher - Book Review
- Brookfield reminds us to ask, "Whose interests does the 'perfect ten' assumption serve, if not those of students and teachers?" (p. 18). He answers, "Primarily, it serves individuals... who believe...teaching can be reduced to a linear, quantifiable rating system... Believing that learning and teaching are unidimensional...In their minds, teaching becomes the simple implementation of centrally produced curricula and objectives" (p. 18).
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Sunday, November 02, 2014
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Crutcher, Betty Neal. (2014). Cross-Cultural Mentoring: A Pathway to Making Excellence Inclusive. Liberal Education, 100(2), [n.p.]. Retrieved from http://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/2014/spring/crutcher
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Extensive Watching – EnglishCentral: The Official Blog
In this post, Deubelbeiss listed characteristics of Extensive Watching (2012.07.03).
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Lord Nicholas Stern: The state of the climate — and what we might do about it | Talk Video | TED.com
"Economist Nicholas Stern lays out a plan, presented to the UN’s Climate Summit in 2014, showing how the world’s countries can work together on climate" (deck, ¶1, 2014.10.31).
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The History of the English Language (a diagram) | Triangulations
In this blog post (2014.09.30), Sabio Lantz (pen name) represented the history of the English Language in a single diagram. The main source of info. for that diagram was another website to which there is a link at the end of the post.
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