:-) I've at long last finished my dissertation! Well, I'd like to thank
all those of you who have given me so much help and support, refs..,
leads, and discussed with me my ideas while I was doing it...! Your
VIRTUAL support has been very real! :-) Thanks!!
Well, I'm going onto the next stage of my life... to take up a teaching
position in the City University of Hong Kong... this 22nd of January... and
they ask me to teach a course on "learner strategies" in L2 learning or
SLA (second language acquisition)...
Can I teach something I no longer believe in??? Well, that's life, isn't it?
I've glanced through the "textbook" they told me they've ordered for the
students... it's Rebecca Oxford's Language Learning Strategies: What
Every Teacher Should Know (1990). Sigh... I want to look at it from a
sociocultural and social practice perspective... I don't really think
these "strategies" contained in this textbook are really helpful...,
e.g., memory strategies--how to memorize L2 vocabulary...
Please correct me if you think there's a positive side to this line of
theories and stuff... I'd like to hear your thoughts on how I can turn the
course into a more interesting one, from a sociocultural perspective...
Thanks in advance!
Angel