Teaching Grammar in the ESL Classroom

Today's post is another paper from the correspondence TESL course I was taking back in the Fall. This assignment was on the question of whether or not grammar should be taught explicitly in the ESL classroom. Any thoughts? Feel free to comment, especially if you're a...

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Weekly Re-cap / Prayer Letter

This week, instead a normal re-cap (if there is such a thing), I'm posting my prayer letter, also being sent to my supporters via email. -------------------------------------- Hi everyone, Sunday night I went to a multi-denominational youth worship gathering, called...

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Talk Time

This week and next I'm continuing my series of writings on Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), using more material taken from assignments I did for my TESL course. Today's post was written back in mid-December, and is about teacher vs. student talk time in...

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Weekly Re-cap

This week I... Visited a fellow-missionary's church for their Sunday night "Gospel Cafe" event. Met some cool musician guys and had a good chat with them. Biked to class on my new bicycle. Podcasted. Had a good meeting with my pastor / mentor, Joseph Saoshiro. Found a...

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Update

If you went looking for new photos in the past couple of days, sorry. I had some uploading trouble, and still seem to be, so for now the Photo page is down. Hopefully I can remedy that soon, though. In the meantime, a brief update: I've enrolled in a part-time...

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Weekly Re-cap

As of tonight, I have officially been in Japan for one week. Things have been going well. I really like the people at the church here, and the neighborhood and city are going to be fun places to live. This week was spent mostly on getting aclimated and settled into my...

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Here.

This is just a quick note to let you all know I've made it safely to Nagoya, Japan. So far so good. More news and regularity of blogging in the new year. Happy New Year.

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Merry Christmas (prayer letter)

Here's a copy of my latest prayer letter for those of you not on the email list. Hope you all have a great Christmas. Come back to the blog next week for updates from Japan. Dear friends, family and supporters, It's Christmas Eve and I've been enjoying the opportunity...

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First Foreign Geisha

Check out this short article about a non-Japanese person who's become a part of a very-Japanese part of society: Japan Today - News - Japans first ever foreign geisha debuts The interesting thing to me is that it says she's spent half of her life in Japan, and yet the...

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