tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82528441100587030382012-02-17T09:51:15.979+08:00This blog is a work in progress that focuses on education with particular reference to EFL in Taiwan. I'll be refering to learning theories, some concepts from social science and my own personal experience as we go alongGaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18392364550618807893noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252844110058703038.post-74131703366909716162011-08-29T20:56:00.012+08:002011-11-11T06:43:06.249+08:00

Here is an extract from a book I wrote, which has just been published:Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) is a field of employment that I have been involved with on and off since 1987; essentially it is my day job, work that provides me with a sporadic income while I await the Big Break. The TEFL English teacher, it must be said, is generally not taken very seriously or respected.

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18392364550618807893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252844110058703038.post-5289728291368161432007-05-18T18:33:00.000+08:002007-05-22T17:54:47.681+08:00

Critical Language Awareness (CLA) is a notion that has partly developed from the considered application of Critical Applied Linguistics to language education, in turn partly as a response to the incorporation of uncritical “Language Awareness” into language education curricula in the 1980s. Pennycook has provided us with a very useful introduction to Critical Applied Linguistics in this article,

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18392364550618807893noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252844110058703038.post-7182094980929182362007-05-04T11:46:00.000+08:002007-05-06T10:23:02.510+08:00

Feminism is an ideology that seeks to challenge sex-based discrimination, and foster relations based on equality and mutual respect between the sexes.A detailed accounting of the origins and shape of sex discrimination in Taiwan is outside the scope of this short post. Suffice to say, such discrimination is self-evident and all-pervasive today—just go and ask any woman. Sexism is not just about a

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Greetings all carbon-based bipeds: i'll be posting on EFL-related experiences and issues on this blog soon. I'll try not to bore you stiff. It only remains to say, in the words of Kojak: "Who loves you baby" --a rhetorical question, so no question mark required :)

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