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stabnkill
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| It is interesting that you assume Fattycat is a she-cat. |
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lall
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 12:21 pm Post subject: Miss |
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| fattycat wrote: |
| I actually have been teaching others who's first language is not English for years with great success. I have taught in schools where 70% of the school's population spoke a primary language other than English and when my students have asked me "Miss how do I spell this"? sometimes I have to tell them I don�t know. So what do we do then? Have the class throw out ideas where we could find the answer, try different recourses and compare which worked better, have discussions as to strategies each of them uses to learn a new word etc. As someone who has had to struggle with this part of the English language myself and find my own strategies is it not possible that perhaps I am in fact a better candidate to help them manipulate it than one who has not had to go through the same struggles? |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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| stabnkill wrote: |
| It is interesting that you assume Fattycat is a she-cat. |
Since the vast majority of people (90+%?) who major in elementary education are female, it was probably a safe assumption. 
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