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Virtual Conference Report: Day One (19 Oct, 2009)
Welcome to the first day of the 2009 Compass Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference. Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter) opened the conference by asking: ‘Why Interdisciplinarity?’ As part of her...
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Virtual Conference Report: Day Two (20 Oct, 2009)
The second day of the conference has been filled with three more interesting and innovative papers. David Crystal’s (University of Bangor) keynote lecture entitled ‘Language Death: A Problem for All’...
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Sputnik Point of View: Deficit Language in U.S. Education
It was a Sputnik moment, President Obama said, when the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) standardized test scores were published late last year. The US ranked somewhere in...
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Cochlear Implants: Miracle Technology or Cultural Genocide?
Deafness and hearing loss is a condition or state of being whose meaning is contested. The biomedical, or infirmity, understanding of deafness is that hearing loss is a disability that, in many cases,...
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Words of the Year: Questions for “Assembled Experts” and Those Whose...
“Oh, I hate that,” my colleague moaned, leaning on the hay- in “hate” with a weary sigh. The that in question was a grammatical construction I had not encountered in my previous TESOL experiences: from...
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Speaking Globe-ish
An ESL Classroom. Somewhere. By Tallersperlallengua (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia CommonsI...
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“Women are bitches”, and other obvious tales from the Sociological front line
www.glamour.com Words excite me. I can’t help it, words are all I have really: they are my bread and butter and what keeps the wolves from the door, and what gets me up in the morning. And a lot of...
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