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Every day language learners - 0 views

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    it has pdf, comments, blogs, activities guides on language learners
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Frieze talks 2011: Do you speak Globish? - 0 views

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    With its catchy phrases and light vocabulary, Globish is fast becoming the art world's dominant language. But is it changing the way we see art?
Massimo Boscherini

How to Land Your Kid in Therapy - Magazine - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • Was it possible these parents had done too much?
  • In her book Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children, Ann Hulbert recounts how there’s always been a tension among the various recommended parenting styles—the bonders versus the disciplinarians, the child-centered versus the parent-centered—with the pendulum swinging back and forth between them over the decades.
  • Yet the underlying goal of good parenting, even during the heyday of don’t-hug-your-kid-too-much advice in the 1920s (“When you are tempted to pet your child, remember that mother love is a dangerous instrument,” the behavioral psychologist John Watson wrote in his famous guide to child-rearing), has long been the same: to raise children who will grow into productive, happy adults.
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  • Nowadays, it’s not enough to be happy—if you can be even happier.
  • “Happiness as a byproduct of living your life is a great thing,” Barry Schwartz, a professor of social theory at Swarthmore College, told me. “But happiness as a goal is a recipe for disaster.”
  • You have to be exposed to pathogens, or your body won’t know how to respond to an attack. Kids also need exposure to discomfort, failure, and struggle.
  • Civilization is about adapting to less-than-perfect situations
  • over the past few years, college deans have reported receiving growing numbers of incoming freshmen they’ve dubbed “teacups” because they’re so fragile that they break down anytime things don’t go their way
  • colleges have had so much trouble getting parents off campus after freshman orientation that school administrators have had to come up with strategies to boot them.
  • Long work hours don’t help. “If you’ve got 20 minutes a day to spend with your kid,” Kindlon asked, “would you rather make your kid mad at you by arguing over cleaning up his room, or play a game of Boggle together? We don’t set limits, because we want our kids to like us at every moment, even though it’s better for them if sometimes they can’t stand us.”
  • Kindlon also observed that because we tend to have fewer kids than past generations of parents did, each becomes more precious.
  • It may be this question—and our unconscious struggle with it—that accounts for the scathing reaction to Amy Chua’s memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, earlier this year. Chua’s efforts “not to raise a soft, entitled child” were widely attacked on blogs and mommy listservs as abusive, yet that didn’t stop the book from spending several months on the New York Times best-seller list.
  • According to Twenge, indicators of self-esteem have risen consistently since the 1980s among middle-school, high-school, and college students. But, she says, what starts off as healthy self-esteem can quickly morph into an inflated view of oneself—a self-absorption and sense of entitlement that looks a lot like narcissism.
  • At the end of the season, the league finds a way to “honor each child” with a trophy.
  • A principal at an elementary school told me that a parent asked a teacher not to use red pens for corrections,” she said, “because the parent felt it was upsetting to kids when they see so much red on the page. This is the kind of self-absorption we’re seeing, in the name of our children’s self-esteem.
  • “I’m bad at math,” Lizzie said she once told them, when she noticed that the math homework was consistently more challenging for her than for many of her classmates. “You’re not bad at math,” her parents responded. “You just have a different learning style. We’ll get you a tutor to help translate the information into a format you naturally understand.”
  • “I didn’t have a different learning style,” she told me. “I just suck at math! But in my family, you’re never bad at anything. You’re just better at some things than at others. If I ever say I’m bad at something, my parents say, ‘Oh, honey, no you’re not!’”
  • Today, Wendy Mogel says, “every child is either learning-disabled, gifted, or both—there’s no curve left, no average.”
Massimo Boscherini

How to Land Your Kid in Therapy - Magazine - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • Kindlon also observed that because we tend to have fewer kids than past generations of parents did, each becomes more precious.
  • Long work hours don’t help. “If you’ve got 20 minutes a day to spend with your kid,” Kindlon asked, “would you rather make your kid mad at you by arguing over cleaning up his room, or play a game of Boggle together? We don’t set limits, because we want our kids to like us at every moment, even though it’s better for them if sometimes they can’t stand us.”
  • In her book Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children, Ann Hulbert recounts how there’s always been a tension among the various recommended parenting styles—the bonders versus the disciplinarians, the child-centered versus the parent-centered—with the pendulum swinging back and forth between them over the decades.
  • ...10 more annotations...
  • Yet the underlying goal of good parenting
  • has long been the same: to raise children who will grow into productive, happy adults.
  • Nowadays, it’s not enough to be happy—if you can be even happier.
  • “Happiness as a byproduct of living your life is a great thing,” Barry Schwartz, a professor of social theory at Swarthmore College, told me. “But happiness as a goal is a recipe for disaster.”
  • Kids also need exposure to discomfort, failure, and struggle.
  • Civilization is about adapting to less-than-perfect situations
  • “You can have the best parenting in the world and you’ll still go through periods where you’re not happy,”
  • Wendy Mogel says that colleges have had so much trouble getting parents off campus after freshman orientation that school administrators have had to come up with strategies to boot them.
  • college deans have reported receiving growing numbers of incoming freshmen they’ve dubbed “teacups” because they’re so fragile that they break down anytime things don’t go their way.
  • It may be this question—and our unconscious struggle with it—that accounts for the scathing reaction to Amy Chua’s memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, earlier this year. Chua’s efforts “not to raise a soft, entitled child” were widely attacked on blogs and mommy listservs as abusive, yet that didn’t stop the book from spending several months on the New York Times best-seller list.
carmen chávez

Changing education paradigms - 2 views

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    This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award.
Massimo Boscherini

Language Study | Suite101.com - 0 views

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  • Join Suite 101's global community of language learners. We are your resource for learning and teaching English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese and more.
  • Find innovative ESL and foreign language lesson ideas suitable for children, teens, and adults. Delve into methodologies and issues important to world language instruction. Discover language learning programs, online opportunities, and other resources. Learn fascinating facts about languages and cultures from around the world.
Massimo Boscherini

Age no excuse for failing to learn a new language - life - 22 July 2011 - New Scientist - 0 views

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  • IT'S never too late to learn another language. Surprisingly, under controlled conditions adults turn out to be better than children at acquiring a new language skill.
  • But some linguists now question whether this apparent difference in language-learning ability reflects our attitudes to young children and adults rather than differences in the brain.
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