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The Edible Woman
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Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman is about women and their relationships to men, to society, and to food and eating.
It is through food and eating that Atwood discusses a young woman's rebellion against a modern, male-dominated world.
The female protagonist, Marian McAlpin, struggles between the role that society ...
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Stigmatized and Standardized Varieties in the Classroom: Interference or Separation?
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The public tends to view pidgins, creoles, and minority dialects (such as
African American Vernacular English) as corrupted or degenerate
forms of standardized languages and to fear that their use interferes
with students’ acquisition of the standard. As a consequence, stigmatized
varieties are banned from most classrooms. This article critically
examines this popular view by summarizing research on educational
programs in which stigmatized varieties have been used in the classroom
and by
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Testing second language speaking
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This book, in the Longman Applied Linguistics and Language Study
series, is a welcome addition to the literature on assessing second
language proficiency, focusing as it does on oral proficiency, an area
of language testing that has tended to be seen as both easier (all you
need to do is to get students to speak) and more problematic (more
subjective, or less reliable) than other areas ...
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On The Future Of Second Language Writing
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"On the future of second language writing'' originated as a colloquium at
the 1999 TESOL Convention in New York. The topic arose from what
seemed to a few of us on the panel as an interesting, or even alarming,
paradox: that on one hand, L2 writing has become an independent field in
applied linguistics for the first time in 60 years, i.e., the modern history of
TESOL. On the other hand ...
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Becoming Black: Rap and Hip-Hop, Race, Gender, Identity, and the Politics of ESL Learning
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This article is about the impact of becoming Black on ESL learning, that
is, the interrelation between identity and learning. It contends that a
group of French-speaking immigrant and refugee continental African
youths who are attending an urban Franco-Ontarian high school in
southwestern Ontario, Canada, enters a social imaginary —a discursive
space in which they are already imagined, constructed, and thus treated
as Blacks by hegemonic discourses and groups. This imaginary is
directly i
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A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
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The organization of taking turns to talk is fundamental to conversation, as well as to other speech-exchange systems. A model for the turn-taking organization for conversation is proposed, and is examined for its compatibility with a list of grossly observable facts about conversation. The results of the examination suggest that, at least, a model for turn-taking in conversation will be characterized as locally man- aged, party-administered, interactionally controlled, and sensitive to ...
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Biography of Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
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Kafka's biography reads almost like a critical analysis of his work, for so much of the
neurotic tension of his writing finds its clear origin in the events of his life. Franz Kafka
was born on July 3, 1883 in the Jewish ghetto of Prague. He was an outsider from ...
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Religion and Its Effect on Stephen Dedalus
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Religion is an important and recurring theme in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man. Through his experiences with religion, Stephen Dedalus both matures and progressively
becomes more individualistic ...
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