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About.com study guide for A Doll's House - 0 views

plays.about.com/...dolls_summary.htm Literature Drama Doll's House Part 3 Study guide
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    Study guide which has lots of links to other articles about the play
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Henrik Ibsen: the demon inside A Doll's House - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...henrik-ibsen-a-dolls-house Literature Doll's House Part 3 Drama
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    Guardian article. Three new Ibsen productions suggest our fascination with the sage of Skien hasn't waned. What keeps us so enthralled?
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Dissecting a Trailer: The Parts of the Film That Make the Cut - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...oscar-trailers.html Mass communication Media Literacy Film
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    NYT article. How scenes from five of the nine best picture nominees were reassembled to promote the films.
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A Streetcar Named Desire - Language, Style, Symbols & Imagery - 0 views

resources.mhs.vic.edu.au/...language.htm Literature Drama Streetcar Study guide
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    The use of stage directions in "Streetcar"
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Con Respeto, I am Not Richard Rodriguez by Norma Mota-Altman - 0 views

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    Essay by a bilingual teacher about "English only" policies. See also "A View from the melting pot", an interview with Robert Rodriguez
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A View From the Melting Pot: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez - 1 views

www.scottlondon.com/...rodriguez.html Language Culture Identity Bilingualism
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    Robert Rodriguez's memoir, "The Hunger of Memory" (1982) is an account of his painful separation from the Spanish-speaking world of his family in his journey to becoming a fully assimilated American.
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Does the future of education lie in bilingualism? Is it even possible? - 0 views

www.ted.com/...the_future_of_education_l.html Language Culture Bilingualism Education
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    TED conversation about bilingual education. Question and discussion forum.
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Patricia Ryan: Don't insist on English! - 1 views

www.ted.com/...anguages_not_just_english.html Language Global English Language death
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    In her talk, longtime English teacher Patricia Ryan asks a provocative question: Is the world's focus on English preventing the spread of great ideas in other languages?
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Jay Walker on the world's English mania - 0 views

www.ted.com/...the_world_s_english_mania.html Language Global English Non-native speakers
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    Jay Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to learn English. He shares photos and spine-tingling audio of Chinese students rehearsing English -- "the world's second language" -- by the thousands.
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Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity - 1 views

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    Biologist Mark Pagel shares an intriguing theory about why humans evolved our complex system of language. He suggests that language is a piece of "social technology" that allowed early human tribes to access a powerful new tool: cooperation.
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Aria: A memoir of a bilingual childhood by Richard Rodriguez - 1 views

www.teacherweb.com/...Rodriguez_Aria.pdf Language Identity Culture Bilingualism
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    autobiographical essay about growing up in a Spanish-speaking family in California.
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Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory and the rejection of the private self - 0 views

faculty.vassar.edu/...RichardRodriguez.pdf Language Culture Identity Bilingualism
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    Analysis of Rodriguez's The Hunger of Memory by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert (chapter from US Latino Literature)
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Lost in translation, by Eva Hoffman - 0 views

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    Review of Hoffman's book from International Association of Conference Interpreters.
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Lost in Translation by Eva Hoffmann - 0 views

www.english.wisc.edu/...hoffman.pdf Language Culture Identity Bilingualism
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    Excerpts from Eva Hoffman. (1989). Lost in translation: A life in a new language. New York: Penguin Books.
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Eva Hoffmann's Lost in Translation - 0 views

ubir.bolton.ac.uk/index.php Language Culture Identity Bilingualism
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    Academic paper by Suzanne Stern-Gillet, University of Bolton
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Cambodia's Minority Languages Face Bleak Future - 1 views

www.voanews.com/...165301.html Language Language Death Cambodia
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    Voice of American article
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Cambodia: An ancient language, and a people, face extinction - 4 views

www.minorityvoices.org/news.php Language Language Death Cambodia
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    article from Minority Voices Newsroom
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DEVELOPMENT-CAMBODIA: Minority Languages Face Extinction - 3 views

www.ipsnews.net/...rity-languages-face-extinction Language Language Death Indigenous languages Cambodia
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    Inter Press Service article.
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My Fair Lady - 3 views

www.youtube.com/watch Language Accents Varieties of English
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    video. My Fair Lady (based on the play Pymalion) looks at how we are judged by our accents and varieties of language.
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