Comments on: What’s up? http://talesfromjapan.com/2008/10/12/whats-up/ Stories of our travails in Tokyo Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:27:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brian http://talesfromjapan.com/2008/10/12/whats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Brian Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:09:45 +0000 http://talesfromjapan.com/?p=121#comment-30 Mags, Curse those soft education researchers! And then I have the linguistic and psych development folks that do hard research, and then conclude everyone CAN do everything. Which is great...unless you work in my field and see that they can't. You want to preview the speech? Guess that means I need to write the darn thing! ...adding write speech to my TO DO list now... Mags,
Curse those soft education researchers! And then I have the linguistic and psych development folks that do hard research, and then conclude everyone CAN do everything. Which is great…unless you work in my field and see that they can’t. You want to preview the speech? Guess that means I need to write the darn thing! …adding write speech to my TO DO list now…

]]> By: Margaret Whitt http://talesfromjapan.com/2008/10/12/whats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Margaret Whitt Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:16:56 +0000 http://talesfromjapan.com/?p=121#comment-29 Brian- I think there is info on that point of your speech as it relates to additive language acquisition in the area of ESL; however, since this is a field in education, most of the "research" is squishy-soft qualitative instead of quantitative. Need help finding such flimsy research??? M PS would love to peruse your speech before or after you give it! Brian- I think there is info on that point of your speech as it relates to additive language acquisition in the area of ESL; however, since this is a field in education, most of the “research” is squishy-soft qualitative instead of quantitative. Need help finding such flimsy research???
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PS would love to peruse your speech before or after you give it!

]]> By: Brian http://talesfromjapan.com/2008/10/12/whats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Brian Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:13:03 +0000 http://talesfromjapan.com/?p=121#comment-28 Margaret, Thanks for the comment. I keep thinking about writing something about bilingualism. Had a meeting recently with the speechies here. There is always the issue of "where is the line?" That infamous line between where is a language problem start/stop and a REAL speech/language start? The Dual Language book goes into learning the whole socio-economic thing of learning a minority language or a primary language as your second language. A lot of the speechies here found that interesting...they had apparently skipped that day of their linguistic classes while in grad school. The bigger issue we find ourselves running into (and we personally are dealing with) is the ability of the parents to adequately suppport (academically, psychologically, emotionally, culturally) BOTH languages. I preparing a speech for teachers at a International school next month. Have decided to add a section on this topic. While its a major issue, I haven't (at least in the speechie based literature) seen a lot on this. Margaret,
Thanks for the comment. I keep thinking about writing something about bilingualism. Had a meeting recently with the speechies here. There is always the issue of “where is the line?” That infamous line between where is a language problem start/stop and a REAL speech/language start? The Dual Language book goes into learning the whole socio-economic thing of learning a minority language or a primary language as your second language. A lot of the speechies here found that interesting…they had apparently skipped that day of their linguistic classes while in grad school. The bigger issue we find ourselves running into (and we personally are dealing with) is the ability of the parents to adequately suppport (academically, psychologically, emotionally, culturally) BOTH languages. I preparing a speech for teachers at a International school next month. Have decided to add a section on this topic. While its a major issue, I haven’t (at least in the speechie based literature) seen a lot on this.

]]> By: Margaret Whitt http://talesfromjapan.com/2008/10/12/whats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Margaret Whitt Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:18:17 +0000 http://talesfromjapan.com/?p=121#comment-27 Brian, Just ordered the bilingual book- yes it is 3am here. Don't ask me why I'm up! Gary and I saw the movie "Fireproof" with Kirk Cameron and really enjoyed it! He got evil with his wife- quite a stretch for him. Since Sherwood Films is a low-budget group (they also made "Facing the Giants"), the special effects are minimal but the few that are there are quite astounding, considering there were no stunt doubles. We are reading The Shack, So You Don't Want to go go Church Anymore, and The Last Jihad (Joel Rosenburg), plus I'm getting ready to delve into Sarah Palin's biography just for a lark. And try this for musical updates: trapped in a car, the helpless driver, for five hours (down and back to the in-laws)with teen daughter forcing you to listen to her lime-wire-ladened ipod- I don't even know if there is a word for that kind of torture... Brian, Just ordered the bilingual book- yes it is 3am here. Don’t ask me why I’m up!
Gary and I saw the movie “Fireproof” with Kirk Cameron and really enjoyed it! He got evil with his wife- quite a stretch for him. Since Sherwood Films is a low-budget group (they also made “Facing the Giants”), the special effects are minimal but the few that are there are quite astounding, considering there were no stunt doubles.
We are reading The Shack, So You Don’t Want to go go Church Anymore, and The Last Jihad (Joel Rosenburg), plus I’m getting ready to delve into Sarah Palin’s biography just for a lark.

And try this for musical updates: trapped in a car, the helpless driver, for five hours (down and back to the in-laws)with teen daughter forcing you to listen to her lime-wire-ladened ipod- I don’t even know if there is a word for that kind of torture…

]]> By: Brian http://talesfromjapan.com/2008/10/12/whats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Brian Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:13:59 +0000 http://talesfromjapan.com/?p=121#comment-26 One more thing, I plan to repost the Eclectic Music Friday post as well as the obento post in the coming week. One more thing, I plan to repost the Eclectic Music Friday post as well as the obento post in the coming week.

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