綺軒 Yachi's Work House

Hi, the following is my new blog for Edu 709 at USF.

http://yachi-usf709.blogspot.com/

1. 親子共讀，怎麼開始？

2. 猶太人的兒童教育

3. 溺愛戰爭

4. 養個「好情緒」孩子的三種方式

5. 行走坐臥  教他善的過程

6. 中國   競爭爆炸  沒有時間麻木

7. 童年富裕病

8. 思考，深思考

9. 第十名狀元

10. 美的沈思 打造看不見的競爭力

外省人的英文要怎麼說?  There are some interesting info in the Wikipedia,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainlander 

Last year, spending a lot of time to understand the relationship between linguistics and semiotics, I still get confused at the end of the semester. These days, when I am doing the readings for "Anthropology of Education", I found that some theories, used in Anthropology, still have strong relationship with language, especially, in the field of "structuralism."

I found some informative websites for my futural reference:

结构主义
http://www.culstudies.com/rendanews/displaynews.asp?id=4183

wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuralism

前幾天，朋友在問怎麼考托福及GRE作文。

我的英文寫作並不是鼎好的那種，但是托福作文滿分及GRE作文5分。以一個外國人來說，算是不錯的分數。之前有修過教作文的課，知道一些技巧，也幫一些朋友準備過，成績也都不錯。現在把一些想法po出來，給需要的人參考看看。

剛剛過去的這個學期，因為要準備婚禮，所以修了一堂較easy的課，本來以為會是個比較輕鬆的學期，沒想到到最後兩星期卻是忙到翻掉。

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During today' work shift, I overheard a workshop hold for USF language profs. Following is my note:

Activity One: Purchasing activity  
Give students: 1.Links of department stores 2.Price range
Ask student: Write descriptions of the item.
---Learn vocabularies, price, reading skills----by using real material
Then they have different info---then information gap---the motivation to discuss
After they have the discussion, students can share the item on the websites.

The definitions of agency in the academic language are different from everyday use. Based on Ahearn, L (2000) Agency, agency is a way to talk about the human capacity to act.  It focuses on how individual interact with the society ; both actionally and psychologicaly).

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Bilingual Education Links
(References from: Dr. Susan Katz's class)

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