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		<title>which english? why your opinion is irrelevant</title>
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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>culture and reading skills &#8211; can (should) we teach both?</title>
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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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