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Jul.21.2010
I am delighted to share with you this beautifully orchestrated radio interview with Carey Shenkman on UCLA radio. Episode One: "All I wanted to do was to teach English" Episode Two: "English might not be a bad thing." Here's more about The Diplomat program.
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Jul.21.2010
I am delighted to share with you this beautifully orchestrated radio interview with Carey Shenkman on UCLA radio. Episode One: "All I wanted to do was to teach English" Episode Two: "English might not be a bad thing." Here's more about The Diplomat program.
For more...
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Jul.18.2010
USING ENGLISH IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Synopsis:
The book is a 'need-based' language learning book for use by tertiary level students of earth and mineral sciences. It follows the ESP approach to language teaching.
Book Excerpt:
USING ENGLISH IN...
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Jun.26.2010
To quote a Yiddish proverb “What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul”. I am a great believer in this, and so is my guest on today's “A Book and a Chat with Weston Locher."
Weston, had no chance with avoiding having literature as an important thing in his life. With a mother who was...
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Jun.06.2010
Receiving the gift was the title of today's message. It was taken from Ephesians 2 :8-10. The gift is free but it will cost us something. If Jesus who was without sin, bled and died on the cross for our sins it cost him his life. If He had to do it, it means that we have to do it too. Not die...
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May.31.2010
The writing was carefully painted onto a wall at Salisbury Cathedral Photo: APEX Oldest example of written English discovered in churchWhat is believed to be the first ever example of English in a British church has been discovered.
It was written half a millennia ago and its message was serious...
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Mar.19.2010
Advance Praise for Felicity and Barbara Pym
1. "A splendid book! Original, controversial, academic, readable, serious, light-hearted, sensible, charming..." - Hazel Holt, Literary Executor of the Barbara Pym Estate, author of the Barbara Pym biography, A Lot to Ask: A Life...
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Mar.15.2010
Writing in More than one Language: Significance, Opportunities, Challenges, and Audiences. (Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, Ewa Chrusciel, Jennifer Dick, Pablo Medina, Simon Ortiz, Luisa Villani)
Six bilingual authors of poetry discuss the creative process they employ in writing bilingual works, the...
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Jan.10.2010
I’ve written short stories, poems, and news analyses. But the personal essay remains my preferred medium. The writer’s voice, when honest and frank, provides an emotional intimacy with the reader no other genres can. In my case—a refugee who fled from a war-torn country at 11 and became an...
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Jan.09.2010
While working on my new blog ( "Scientific Words of the Week"), something got me thinking about the various uses for my "EasyTerms" book series. If you're writing fiction and want to have characters who seem knowledgeable about Biology (or Nursing, Anatomy, Medicine, Nutrition...
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