Friday, July 3, 2020

update

I have recently retired from a 30-year career mostly teaching ESL, but also teaching EFL, math, English, and music. Part of that career included voluminous writing, much of which is here. If I'm smart I can organize it, show it, and link to it from here. I can publish some of it, too, if I can pull it all together.

Most of my published work is here. I've been absorbed in short stories, haiku, and family genealogy, though I've also done Quaker plays and might do more of them. I'm letting go of the haiku. But I'm trying to finish some long-awaited novels.

With my language-related work, there is part of it that is timeless, and part that is not. To be brief, I believed that the integration of technology into our writing systems changed not only our systems but our understanding, and that it was a constantly evolving picture. I saw it as I taught. The technology taught as I taught, alongside me, and it changed the way people saw the language.

I will try to sort through the work I did and save what I can. I am still invited to TESOL regularly and have a strong impulse to go, but on the other hand, at 66, and afraid of covid and all, I think I'll just sort & publish what I've got, and call it a life. TESOL was supposed to be in Denver this year - doable for me, as I am only one state away - but not only was I busy, with the last of four children, all locked down, but also, it was canceled. Pushed aside. We language teaching specialists will have to just ruminate for a while. Look for changes on this site, soon.
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Saturday, March 5, 2011

Blog posts on grammar & technology

Leverett, T. (2011, Mar.). Add technology, delete skills? thisisyourbrain weblog. http://thisisyourbrainonweblogs.blogspot.com/2011/03/add-technology-lose-skills.html.

___ (2010, June). Tell it to the machine. thisisyourbrain weblog. http://thisisyourbrainonweblogs.blogspot.com/2010/06/tell-it-to-machine.html.
(story of cell phone altering typing patterns)

___ (2010, Jan. 7). Grammar checkers - one more time. This is your brain weblog. http://thisisyourbrainonweblogs.blogspot.com/2010/01/grammar-checkers-one-more-time.html.

___ (2010, Jan. 7). More on grammar checkers. This is your brain weblog. http://thisisyourbrainonweblogs.blogspot.com/2010/01/grammar-checkers-one-more-time.html.

___ (2009, Nov.). Grammar-check theory. This is your brain weblog. http://thisisyourbrainonweblogs.blogspot.com/2009/11/grammar-check-theory.html.

___ (2009, Nov.). Grammar checkers revisited. This is your brain weblog. http://thisisyourbrainonweblogs.blogspot.com/2009/11/grammar-checkers-revisited.html.


Green line to the commons includes these:

Leverett, T. (2009, Nov.) Noticing and the processes of learning.
http://tomsources.blogspot.com/2010/03/green-line-to-commons-noticing-and.html.

___ (2009, Nov.) Grammar-check theory..
http://tomsources.blogspot.com/2010/03/green-line-to-commons-grammar-check_24.html.html.

___ (2008, Dec.) Still more questions.
http://tomsources.blogspot.com/2010/03/green-line-to-commons-still-more.html.

___ (2008, Nov.) Voyage pf discovery: The questions.
http://tomsources.blogspot.com/2010/03/green-line-to-commons-voyage-of.html.

___ (2008, Nov.) Green line to the commons: Grammar-check takes esl for a ride.
http://tomsources.blogspot.com/2010/03/green-line-to-commons-grammar-check.html.
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Monday, January 17, 2011

Teaching Writing

Useful Writing links:




Pedagogy




Using the web




Weblogs for writing teachers



Organizations of writing teachers



Research:


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Teaching Speaking & Pronunciation

Pedagogy




Teaching Pronunciation and Speaking: Links




Articles and Research on Speaking and Pronunciation:


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Teaching Reading

Reading Links for teachers:



Teaching Reading (Pedagogy):



Create clozes and activities



Teaching Vocabulary



Teaching Reading: Theory and Articles




Other Resources


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Teaching Listening

Listening Links




Listening Activities




Sources for authentic materials




Listening Pedagogy




Making/publishing materials




Listening Research and articles


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Teaching Grammar

this page appeared on http://www.siu.edu/~cesl/teachers/know/grammar.html but was removed and restored here in 2010/2011

Grammar Quiz Sites




Other Useful Link pages:




General ESL Grammar Sites




Grammar Links for teachers




CESL Grammar help:


(being restored)


Grammar lessons to use




Grammar and Poetry:





Pedagogy and Pedagogical Grammar




Research



Teacher's bibliographies
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