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		<title>which english? why your opinion is irrelevant</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/12/18/which-english-why-your-opinion-is-irrelevant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wife and children abed, the teacher was scratching his way through a stack of conversation transcriptions that his students had handed in earlier that day. &#8220;Hi, how are you&#8221; began one. &#8220;So-so&#8221; was the reply. The teacher lifted his pen to strike through the unnatural phrase in blood red ink &#8211; after all, don&#8217;t we native [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I want you to express your opinions freely (as long as they are the same as mine)&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or &#8220;cultural diversity is a wonderful thing (within the framework of western liberal democracy)&#8221; Sara Hannam has just contributed yet another excellent post to the blogosphere, prompted by a horrific bit of teaching in the movie &#8216;Donnie Darko&#8217;. In this case, the teacher stifles the expression of a bright young man by sticking to her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>culture and reading skills &#8211; can (should) we teach both?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post I mentioned an article I had read on &#8216;nativised&#8217; reading materials &#8211; readings which are adapted to include local (and familiar) names, places and foods (for example) whilst retaining the vocabulary and grammar structures of the original. In the article, the researchers took a story based in New York and transplanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>urban legends and critical thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Did you hear about that boy on the other side of town? No? Apparently, he was walking home from school quite late, it was getting dark, when he saw this woman standing on the corner. She was wearing a mask, you know, like she had a cold. As he walked past she was staring at [...]]]></description>
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