por Ersun Warncke | Jul 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
Teaching the courage to be uniqueAnglo-Irish literary aesthete, prodigy and queer icon Oscar Wilde advised: “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”Like so much of his language, the words flit quicksilver from the tongue, they practically trail champagne...
por Ersun Warncke | Jul 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
Revisiting authorial advice I wrote this article some years ago, after interviewing three authors. It is worth revisiting._______________________“It is impossible to become a writer without reading,” says Paul Hendrickson, writing professor at the University of...
por Ersun Warncke | Jul 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
Summer is here… start reading!Great books help develop strong readers. And strong readers are capable of learning just about anything.One of the joys and challenges of my job as a literature teacher is to continuously find exciting, engaging stories that will...
por Ersun Warncke | Jul 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
Conference presentation I presented the following case study at Le Sallay Academy’s January 2023 conference on blended learning.Culturally Responsive Teaching in Blended Learning: A Case Study What is culturally responsive teaching?The term culturally responsive...
por Ersun Warncke | Jul 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
Native English speakers only need to learn around 9,000 words to read proficiently (Nation, 2014; Qian & Lin, 2019). This, out of a lexis of over 170,00 words (and growing!)Hence most of us walk, eat and talk on a daily basis rather than shuffle, feast or...
por Ersun Warncke | Jun 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
What follows was written at the end of last academic year.Twelve months later, nothing has changed except context (a shift from hybrid to full-time online teaching).If anything, the past year has reinforced these observations and increased my dedication to offering...
