My cousin may be going abroad next year as an ESL teacher. She has studied languages herself but doesn't have ESL teacher training. She has expressed an interest in reading some good books on language teaching & ESL teaching specifically to get prepared.
Can anyone in #teaching circles recommend good books on how to teach ESL that have practical, actionable advice for a smart, educated, motivated aspiring teacher?
@ShaulaEvans@edutooters@bookstodon My mother (longtime college ESL teacher)'s first reaction was laughter. Then PBS with captions and hobby groups.
I would advise as much interaction with native speakers as possible. She had many students from Spain who fared badly because ew, Spanish? You must be poor! Meanwhile Moroccans did great because ooh, French is so cultured and exotic.
FCC to restore #NetNeutrality and also, hey, to protect our online activity from scrapping--be it for #ArtificialIntelligence training without our consent, or for even more nefarious purposes.
When the public comment period opens, for your own interest, comment--the vultures will, by the thousands, using bots/AI, so we need to show up and make sure our voices are heard, and our interests protected.
@herhandsmyhands@romancelandia It's funny - I don't have a problem with basic TTS. I feel like that's a decision on the user's end based on their own personal accessibility needs, made with the understanding that the result will be imperfect.
But once the end product is being marketed as an "audiobook" (as opposed to an ebook the reader may run through a screen reader if they wish)...
Those are two very different products and I'm not happy about efforts to blur the line.
@mjjmori@bookstodon@amwriting A streamer I like and whose videos I often play for background noise is -- I think -- doing a Bubsy marathon tonight to repent for his sins, so I have resolved to write through the duration of the stream.
I have a good chunk ahead loosely plotted so I think this could work. I keep stalling out on book 4 even though the ending was one of the first things I wrote.
I won't say I'm getting a ton of writing done but with the funk I've been in lately, pecking out a few lines at a time is progress, and it's looking like we'll be here... a while. Oof.
@Jtmoriartywriter@mjjmori@bookstodon@amwriting And this is book 4 in a series, already deeply in progress... I can't exactly go "all that stuff I spent 60k words setting up? Yeah, forget all that! Boop, deleted!"
The ending is an epilogue that makes the bridge to 5 but it resolves nothing for 4.
It's that he blames himself and it builds on other insecurities/fears he has, and that he has a very gentle nature overall. He has a pretty complicated way of processing emotions, too, so it takes time to work through it with him.
(If the MC caused a similar incident he'd be barking at the intern to walk it off.)
Someone at Felon's site just reminded me of this, and my friends @romancelandia, I had to share it with you.
Prepare to laugh and cry and laugh some more (especially if you read a lot of 1980s and 1990s romance...but really, any romance, some tropes will never die)
@AmandaWeaver@herhandsmyhands@romancelandia Still think of the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt line about "That voice? And the way he doesn't wear pants the entire time?" "Yeah! Has your crotch ever had a headache?"
Also laughed a lot at Venture Bros when Triana says "If it's Splash, I added it to your Netflix queue!" Her dad: "Splash? WHY would you--?" "I just wanted to see it again!"
I definitely caught Splash on network TV and found it very confusing when I was young.
Day 27 of #RomanceAwarenessMonth and today's post is dedicated to @lenoreo as she mentioned #CinnamonRoll MMCs in a recent reply. My fave Cinnamon Roll Hero is probably Martin in Olivia Dade's "Teach Me": he's been hurt in a previous relationship; he's a doting dad; he is sweet and gentle with the FMC Rose, until he becomes a dirty talking sexy lover (after seeking her consent for talking dirty, of course).
Please share your cinnamon roll recs! @romancelandia @romancebooks
@Diva007@lenoreo@romancelandia@romancebooks He is a former old-order Mennonite paired up with a NYC teenage runaway turned spy/sex worker, let's say they have slightly different life experiences.
They work, somehow. One is extremely complicated and the other rarely asks questions. It catches him off-guard in a good way how his BF takes charge when they're alone.
As his partner puts it, "He has a way of making you want to take care of him, doesn't he?"
He's blisteringly competent one minute, then he can barely feed himself. There's a whole covert team at the office to keep him humming along efficiently.
Hands up if you are a fan of the #MarriageOfConvenience trope? 🙋🏾♀️There are always good #RomanceNovel reasons why the couple MUST marry - a clause in a will; to get a Green Card; to save something of importance - and it is sooo delicious when a couple work together to achieve the best outcome! Even more yummy if the MCs start as enemies/rivals...
Recs:
"Terms & Conditions" by Lauren Asher
"Border CTRL + ESC" by Ivy L James
"In A Jam" by Kate Canterbary