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Back to school, August PD for Burlington Teachers

Back to school professional development! August 25 - 27, 2014 -- http://bpscon2014.sched.org/

Summer 2014_From recent grad work_in case you'd like to see what I'm studying

Good day: There is a lot covered in this week’s video lecture (see below for video), and I think it’s hard to boil it all down to three big points.  Before I start, I want to share that I think we will all have many different synopses, or versions of what we felt were the three biggest points.  You see … I never read what others have posted before I write my own, as the desire to have and share original thoughts is powerful, and so I have not yet looked, but I think it’s going to be interesting to see what others have said. This was a great video/ lecture.  I love what I do, and even though I don’t have a Bachelor’s in linguistics, I feel like an expert in language acquisition, having taught in the ELL classroom for ten years now.  I love this field, and feel so lucky to be able to help my students acquire language.  Did you notice I didn’t say “learn,” as in to “learn a language?”  Yes, well, at the end of the lecture, he shares Chomsky’s idea that language is not learned; th