by Mark Knowles | Mar 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Dear FrenchRevers, I want to thank you all once again for showing up to Tuesday night’s class in what can euphemistically be described as trying times for Boulder, the inspirational and original home of FrenchRev. In the past few weeks, Élisabeth, Sabrina, and...
by Mark Knowles | Dec 14, 2020 | Classes
Autour de l’Apéro6 sessions of 60 miClasse de Conversation (Advanced) – $187 / 6-week session Level - Advanced "l'art de la conversation autour d'un apéro"; 100% in French Come join our friendly French facilitators for a relaxed...
by Mark Knowles | Oct 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Given that I grew up in a small town in western Iowa and then went on to do something as unfathomable as a Ph.D. in French, it may come as little surprise that people ask me with obvious sincerity and interest to tell them my story. Alternatively, what would not have...
by Mark Knowles | Oct 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Okay, let’s get into my own language learning story with the hopes that it can shed some light on the identity factor in second language acquisition. In 1973 when I was in the ninth grade (at that time, my school had a junior high and not a middle school, so I was not...
by Mark Knowles | Oct 7, 2020 | learning context, Second Language Acquisition, Socio-cultural
What identity(ies) one brings to the task of language learning has bearing on the way the language is learned. In the last two postings, I brought up a review of the literature by Bonnie Norton and Kelleen Toohey on such an idea in the field of Second Language...
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