by DrKnowles | Aug 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
FrenchRev is introducing an important new playlist in the catalogue of our YouTube videos. We call this playlist “HISTOIRES LOUFOQUES,” which kind of translates as Farfetched Stories. These stories were created by our students in our intermediate...
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 | 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 | Sep 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Remember the last part of my last post? That’s where I brought up delving into the salient points of Norton and Toohey’s “Identity, language learning, and social change.” They talk about how the social sciences, especially those highly...
by Mark Knowles | Sep 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
As I approach age 63 and the final part of my career, I feel as if part of my unfinished business is to read, or reread, the most salient research out in the SLA and Applied Linguistics worlds and then figure out how it applies to our learners at FrenchRev. I am now...
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