I had written most of a post on language teaching and learning with all sorts of picky details, such as language essays are likely to have, but when I left it for a few minutes and came back to it, I realized that you may not be interested in those picky details — which is [...]
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Language Learning
Posted by Molly on March 12, 2012
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/language-learning/
Habits
I’ve been reading an e-book on The Power of Habit (Charles Duhigg); in part because it’s interesting, in much larger part because my own habits are something of a mess, and in part from habit: when you’re not sure what to do, read a book! It’s interesting and well written in most of the same [...]
Posted by Molly on March 8, 2012
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/habits/
Protected: Stupid, Pointless Questions
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Posted by Molly on March 2, 2012
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/stupid-pointless-questions/
Schoolbooks
In the interest of being a better informed, more organized, thoughtful teacher in the spring than I have been this fall, I devoted a couple of hours to making schedules based on units and holidays, and a couple more to reading our tenth grade textbook this afternoon. I soon realized that, although I had always [...]
Posted by Molly on December 13, 2011
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/schoolbooks/
Concerning my own ignorance of language teaching
On Wednesday there’s a meeting with the minister of education planned for TLG-ers in Tbilisi and surrounding areas — Gori is included, I suppose because there are about a dozen of us, and so it’s easy to have us meet here and come by bus. Because one is generally more likely to get something out [...]
Posted by Molly on December 4, 2011
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/concerning-my-own-ignorance-of-language-teaching/
Protected: Language, cont.
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Posted by Molly on November 12, 2011
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Protected: Language
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Posted by Molly on November 12, 2011
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The Great Vowel Shift
I wanted to write a deeply meaningful post of self discovery, but will have to put it off, in favor of a much less personal account of phonemic awareness. I’m going to assume you don’t have a very firm grasp of the international phonetic alphabet, and not bother using it. Have you ever wondered why [...]
Posted by Molly on November 4, 2011
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/the-great-vowel-shift/
Just Checking In
It’s my birthday; I’m 25 today. I’m not sure how I feel about that yet. I haven’t written lately not only because I’m fickle (though that’s also the case), but also because I’ve had a cold and other cold-like symptoms (like staying up all night thinking about how my sinuses hurt when I breath). Some of [...]
Posted by Molly on October 21, 2011
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/just-checking-in/
Pardon me, have you got a rubber?
Our textbooks are written in England. Usually that’s perfectly alright. Usually I find it rather charming. When teaching ESL, however, the differences which would ordinarily not have been an issue, such as Z being said “zed,” an eraser being a “rubber,” pants as “trousers,” “my mum is mad about footballing,” or the constructions of have: [...]
Posted by Molly on October 4, 2011
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/has-got/
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I’m a young Orthodox woman living and teaching in the Republic of Georgia. I write about places I’ve been, books I’ve read, and thoughts on whatever seems interesting at the time. The password is my saint name.
