by | August 12th, 2007
- Courtesy of the Bootsnall Italy Logue, a link to a blog post with a variety of TEFL resources, including several specific to Italy.
- From Education Week, a link to a study on what it would take – in dollars and teaching time - for legal permanent US residents to learn English to pass the US “naturalization” test or start post-secondary education.
- Some Anglophones find a bone to pick with the usual suspect in linguistic debates: France. From the Education Guardian. (Just kidding! Everyone likes to argue with France, right?)
- And there’s more, thanks to TEFLtastic for the link.
- Not quite ESL, but perhaps a job to consider post-TEFL for those who pick up a good deal of their host country’s local language.
- A new plan in Australia could lead to additional language aid for refugees.
- A full house is the norm in Washington state ESL classes.
- Revel in some “lost words” in English, including a list of “ q not followed by u” words and a ranking of swear words by severity.
- English for pharmaceutical purposes, anyone?
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Another nice language-connected link on the subject of France I think might interest you:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article1940313.ece
Oh - interesting. I’m not sure what to make of that, but I’m adding to directly to the post - thanks!
My reaction was the same- very interesting, not sure what to do with it…
I may have an idea… stay tuned! I do like the idea of taking seven hours to write a dissertation on the meaning of time and the time of meaning…
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