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Continue reading →: My Speech is Accentless, But My Skin Color is Not
Poem by Ruslana Westerlund as Featured on Protest Poems Originally published in 2010 Where are you from? What languages do you speak? Aren’t you from Mexico? Really, where are you from? Since you asked, I will answer you. You might listen, but will you hear me? You might hear me,…
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Continue reading →: We Must Define OurselvesPoem by Ruslana Westerlund Originally posted around 2008… I definitely remember it was a Saturday, but I forgot the year…. Today, I was inspired. I was inspired by the dedicated ESL Teachers who chose to spend their Saturday together with other ESL teachers. ESL Teachers are a very closely-knit group…
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Continue reading →: Reclaiming My Students’ Home Languages Between The Slices of The Dubai SkyThis is a true story from my teaching experience in 2007-08 school year. Not a very long time ago, I was an ESL teacher. I wanted to teach my students how to create a dialog by using call outs/cut outs or so called dialog bubbles. I gave them different magazines…
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