tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321329750397667796.post176117123244328693..comments2024-03-26T19:47:09.310+08:00Comments on Lao Ren Cha - 老人茶: Mythbusting Bilingual by 2030Jenna Lynn Codyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04032277820150000198noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321329750397667796.post-34755402179850977072023-10-06T08:12:10.877+08:002023-10-06T08:12:10.877+08:00Sorry for the late response, had some family issue...Sorry for the late response, had some family issues to contend with. Thanks very much for the reply, I'll be checking out those books as soon as I can. I'm mostly just be doing plain ol' ESL within the public curriculum, but I want to make it as engaging, useful, and more importantly as sticky as possible. I'll also potentially be doing some CLIL in the future so I'm already Kiltreiserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08961070007439275437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321329750397667796.post-61728129141514375512023-09-26T11:17:07.420+08:002023-09-26T11:17:07.420+08:00Great to hear -- I always love seeing teachers wan...Great to hear -- I always love seeing teachers want to level up their knowledge and skills. For Taiwan, try Japanese Colonial Education in Taiwan (Tsurumi, but hard to find). It's a solid historical background that busts a lot of myths about Taiwan's education problems stemming from "Confucianism". There's not a lot else out there -- I own a few other books but none of them Jenna Lynn Codyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04032277820150000198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321329750397667796.post-59173714988874267592023-09-25T14:49:44.242+08:002023-09-25T14:49:44.242+08:00I just recently revisited this post following an i...I just recently revisited this post following an infuriating discussion of the policy with people who couldn't stop saying things along the lines of "But how can they possibly expect everyone to becoe bilingual by 2030???" regardless of what I said. I'm in a slightly different situation from when I first read it, having joined the TFETP program and now experiencing how the Kiltreiserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08961070007439275437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321329750397667796.post-90540432356182348892021-04-22T10:35:42.759+08:002021-04-22T10:35:42.759+08:00I disagree about Crossroads. I think they're d...I disagree about Crossroads. I think they're doing their best, just like Forward Taiwan. But it's hard to convince the government to make changes, and the point of Crossroads' initiative was to get a lot of voices (I agree that not all of those voices were sufficiently knowledgeable about the issue to really be commenting in any official capacity on education policy, but that's Jenna Lynn Codyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04032277820150000198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321329750397667796.post-57079351208107491112021-04-21T12:13:21.365+08:002021-04-21T12:13:21.365+08:00The only thing worse than the government's hal...The only thing worse than the government's half-assed approach are quacks like Crossroads.tw Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419847523711568182noreply@blogger.com