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		<title>Talent For Language</title>
		<link>http://languagebubble.com/2011/04/talent-for-language/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 04:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You hear it all the time and I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard it before&#8230; The struggling learner with the &#8216;once a month&#8217; study plan says it. The person that studied Spanish in high school while reading a comic book and not paying attention says it. The &#8216;average&#8217; L1 English-speaker says it&#8230; It&#8217;s the monolingual catchphrase:  &#8221;I don&#8217;t have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conference Notes: Linguistics and Education</title>
		<link>http://languagebubble.com/2011/04/conference-notes-linguistics-and-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last year or so I have given papers at a number of conferences throughout the region. These conferences have primarily involved discussions within TESOL and Applied Linguistics but have also crossed-over into the related realms of general ed]]></description>
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		<title>The Truth About Arabic</title>
		<link>http://languagebubble.com/2010/05/the-truth-about-arabic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 02:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[arabic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's no doubt that the people from the Middle East are very proud people. They are proud of their country, of their history and of their language. Except when speaking English... many of those I speak to wish to lose all traces of the  markers t]]></description>
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		<title>Accents: Native or Not</title>
		<link>http://languagebubble.com/2010/05/accents-native-or-not/</link>
		<comments>http://languagebubble.com/2010/05/accents-native-or-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 02:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Language Learners]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our friend Ultimate Attainment is back again. He's someone we're talking about a lot in my seminars lately and unfortunately, certain people do believe the falsehoods about sounding like "native" being the ultimate. It's also a fundamental aspect of]]></description>
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		<title>What is Fluency?</title>
		<link>http://languagebubble.com/2010/05/what-is-fluency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 11:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Language Learners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assessment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you fluent? It's a pretty simple question. The answers are more than subjective. To a non-language learner there seems to be the consensus that this question is a definitive yes or no. So not true. Everybody has their own interpretation of]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bilingual Children and Literacy</title>
		<link>http://languagebubble.com/2010/04/bilingual-children-and-literacy/</link>
		<comments>http://languagebubble.com/2010/04/bilingual-children-and-literacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Discussion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[language acquisition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a follow-up to the Multilingual Children post a while back, this is a question we've been pondering lately... How do you develop and maintain literacy in the home language without formal instruction? The obvious way as we are both teachers is t]]></description>
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		<title>Accent Training for the Teacher?</title>
		<link>http://languagebubble.com/2010/04/accent-training-for-the-teacher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Language Teachers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many that are involved in language - teachers and learners both - are hung up on the pronunciation aspects of things. Most of these people focus on the learner and how to improve their accent in their target language, and this is something that a]]></description>
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		<title>Study Materials: LingQ</title>
		<link>http://languagebubble.com/2010/04/study-materials-lingq/</link>
		<comments>http://languagebubble.com/2010/04/study-materials-lingq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Language Learners]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[CALL]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First in the series of looking at study materials is going to be LingQ. LingQ is the brainchild of Steve Kaufmann (who you can find on my Blogroll over there &#60;---- ...and down a bit). Steve speaks a number of languages very well and the site is]]></description>
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		<title>Acquisition or Learning?</title>
		<link>http://languagebubble.com/2010/01/acquisition-or-learning/</link>
		<comments>http://languagebubble.com/2010/01/acquisition-or-learning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something that is currently being debated in several circles is just how an additional language is added to one's arsenal. There is of course the more traditional idea that we learn a language through dedication, study and hard work. And there is the]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Culture</title>
		<link>http://languagebubble.com/2009/11/teaching-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://languagebubble.com/2009/11/teaching-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Language Teachers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Culture in the classroom.. is this something that the students need or want? This argument can very much go both ways and much of it relies on what exactly your students want, but one model for the classroom isn't likely to please everyone... as you']]></description>
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