The CiRCE Online Conference Begins This Friday!

December 2, 2009

On Afghanistan

Frankly, I have no idea what we should do there, but I do have some reflections that might help put things in something like a perspective. First, if you are pro-democracy, you are pro-western. Everybody knows that democracy was a concept developed by the Greeks and one which very few societies or communities have bought […]

On Afghanistan Read More »

Teaching Grammar in Today’s Classroom

Here’s a fine video of a discussion about teaching grammar in the classroom: three brief, insightful lectures by experienced and witty veterans of the grammar wars. (here’s the link: http://juergenkurtz.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/teaching-grammar-in-todays-classroom/ – for some reason WordPress was not letting me create the hidden link. Sorry.) Hat tip and thanks to Jürgen Kurtz, Karlsruhe University of Education,

Teaching Grammar in Today’s Classroom Read More »