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Books – Sojourning English Language Teachers
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Sojourning English Language Teachers. Global citizens, migrant workers, transnationals. Below is a partial listing of books written by current and former sojourning ELTs. As of 2014, most of these books are about East Asian contexts. Eva P Bruno and Terry Caesar,. I Wouldn’t Want Anybody to Know. JPGS Press, 2003. Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze. Harper Perennial, 2006. Melissa Christine Karpinski,. Rosedog Press, 2010. My Name is Loco and I Am a Racist.
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Summer of Changes and Travel Writing – Sojourning English Language Teachers
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Sojourning English Language Teachers. Global citizens, migrant workers, transnationals. Summer of Changes and Travel Writing. August 7, 2015. August 7, 2015. Irrelevant to this blog but another big change this summer for me–no more regular cable show viewing habits (Image from http:/ newsunited.org/news/jon-stewart-signs-off-as-host-of-the-daily-show-tonight. What about sojourning ELTs? Which I wrote about in my previous blog post. ELTs Turned Travel Writers. This is not a complete list but just several ...
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Revised W-shaped Adjustment Model (Ting-Toomey, 1999) – Sojourning English Language Teachers
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Sojourning English Language Teachers. Global citizens, migrant workers, transnationals. Revised W-shaped Adjustment Model (Ting-Toomey, 1999). Ting-Toomey’s revised w-shaped adjustment model (1999) comes from the U-curve hypothesis (Lysgaard, 1955; Oberg, 1960) from culture shock theory, which states that there are distinct phases of adjusting or adapting to the host culture. Berry, J.W. (2006). Stress perspectives on acculturation. In Sam, D.L. and Berry, J.W. West Nyack, NY: Cambridge University Press.
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July 2015 – Sojourning English Language Teachers
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Sojourning English Language Teachers. Global citizens, migrant workers, transnationals. English Language Teachers and Learners as Anthropologists. July 18, 2015. Image from http:/ www.amazon.com/Routes-Travel-Translation-Twentieth-Century/dp/0674779614. I can hear many anthropologists guffaw when I suggest that some English language teachers and some of their students may be thinking like and acting like anthropologists in their work and studies. As I am reading through James Clifford’s book. August 20, ...
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Online Communities – Sojourning English Language Teachers
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Sojourning English Language Teachers. Global citizens, migrant workers, transnationals. Online Communities for Professional Learning. The International Teacher Development Institute describes itself as “a global online teacher development institute that is owned and staffed by dedicated teachers.” More details are at http:/ itdi.pro/itdihome/about.php. More on the way…. Online Communities for Cultural Learning. Japan Vloggers have a wiki page at http:/ jvlog.wikia.com/wiki/Japan Vloggers Wiki. August 20,...
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August 2015 – Sojourning English Language Teachers
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Sojourning English Language Teachers. Global citizens, migrant workers, transnationals. Blogging Advice for ELTs (and visitors to Korea). August 25, 2015. I love this flowchart from waegukin.com! The rest of the flowchart covers cultural sensitivity summarized by the last question, “Does [my blog post] require a deeper cultural knowledge than I possess? All the rest of the tips cover other areas in cultural sensitivity/competence/intelligence:. Is it about a “a problem with Korea? 8211; For me, this was ...
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Host Culture Complex (Holliday, 1994) – Sojourning English Language Teachers
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Sojourning English Language Teachers. Global citizens, migrant workers, transnationals. Host Culture Complex (Holliday, 1994). This host culture complex model appeared in Adrian Holliday’s textbook. Appropriate Methodology and Social Context. For English language teachers, published in 1994. He created a model (on page 29) that I found to be particularly helpful to understand the social contexts in which English teachers find themselves. The classroom culture – This is the culture of the classroom ...
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Categorizing Sojourners (and English Language Learners) – Sojourning English Language Teachers
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Sojourning English Language Teachers. Global citizens, migrant workers, transnationals. Categorizing Sojourners (and English Language Learners). May 12, 2015. May 12, 2015. In reply to another blogger’s post. Image taken from Figure 1 on page 380 of Littrell, et al (2006). If you care about the message more than the messenger (me), please move on to the next section. Otherwise, come with me as I embark in my own reflective practice exercise. How to Use this Figure. Administrators and supervisors may also...
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jdslagoski – Sojourning English Language Teachers
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Sojourning English Language Teachers. Global citizens, migrant workers, transnationals. YouTube Comments for Sojourning ELTs, Part 2. October 2, 2016. October 2, 2016. I finally read through and analyzed all of the comments on kanadajin3’s video above. As I stated in my previous post. How did the comments compare? The majority (23%) of additional statements were YouTubers providing their two cents about pedagogy. Some were genuinely trying to help or explain kanadajin3’s struggles with teaching...The nex...
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April 2015 – Sojourning English Language Teachers
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Sojourning English Language Teachers. Global citizens, migrant workers, transnationals. Sojourning ELTs in Qatar. April 11, 2015. April 11, 2015. Yesterday, I enthusiastically read a recently published article written by James Scotland. About sojourning ELTs in Qatar. I was not disappointed in the reading. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimension of Globalization. The first group had already stopped using controversial issues prior to arriving in Qatar. The third group also changed to more culturally appro...
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