Went to a great conference this weekend; was inspired by the plenary; discovered the speaker was a wonderfully generous and friendly woman; got to have lunch with her and the rest of my panel; had a fun evening in a great college town; met some cool people; hung out with good friends; came home and […]
Continue reading →For those who are interested, the classes I’ll be taking this fall include Seminar in Language Testing, a class on assessment of language proficiency through test instruments. The class will examine the history, theory, and application of standardized tests for evaluating language proficiency, both oral and written, cross-linguistically. Rhetorical methodologies, a class dedicated to research […]
Continue reading →Well, I had a summer tutoring job in Chicago, but it fell through on account of we can’t sublet our place, so I’m on the lookout. If you know of anything telecommute-wise, or in the western-central Indiana area (including in Indianapolis), let me know. In happier news, my semester is wrapping up in a couple […]
Continue reading →Very sorry this blog has been so quiet. I am deep in a very busy, very fulfilling semester. I promise to post several times in the next week. Some topics I’m working on: A review of Matt Yglesias’s The Rent Is Too Damn High! ebooklet– or should that be in quotations, and not italics?– and […]
Continue reading →This is the sort of thing that I should learn to just keep to myself, but here goes. The just-released issue of Research in the Teaching of English (46.3) has a study I really admire, “Placement of Students into First-Year Writing Courses.” (In the unfortunate custom of academic articles, the PDF is gated, though an abstract is available here.) […]
Continue reading →A piece I wrote about international students at American universities has been published at the Huffington Post. It’s worth saying that I wrote this piece before both this story in the New York Times and the horribly bigoted Pete Hoekstra Super Bowl ad came out. Were I to write the piece now, it would likely […]
Continue reading →So what’s going on here? I’m not 100% sure, really. I’ve been dissatisfied with my usual blogging life for awhile. I don’t blame anyone else for this dissatisfaction, but neither due I apologize for some of the choices that I’ve made. (Some others, well….) In any event: I am looking to build a friendlier, more […]
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