Language is power, to teach language is to empower.

The quotes from this post are from the article titled, Lessons learnt from languages, by Mike Baker, from the BBC News website Education section. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/education/4535364.stm
There is a growing idea that people who speak English need not learn other languages. It’s not just in the US, but in the UK as well. [...]

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The quotes from this post are from the article titled, English is foreign to more pupils, from the BBC News website Education section. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/education/5391960.stm
In thinking of ESL students, I usually think of them in a context of American schools. Because of that, I found this article particularly interesting. It appears that the [...]

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I have now settled on the news feeds that I will be using for this blog. They are as follows:
BBC News, the Education section
Language and Education, searched on Google News
NPR Topics:Education
U.S. Department of Education
So far I have found BBC News to be most profitable.

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Hello, everyone.  I’m Chris.  I’ll add stuff about me to the about me section soon.  For now I’m just going to talk about my topic.
Here I plan to discuss Language Education.  The focus will be partly on language teaching methods and partly on the expression of complex ideas through writing in a second language.  I [...]

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