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		<title>TESOL&#8217;s Essential Teacher, October 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good example of how SIT and the other programs of World Learning are making a difference in language teaching is the current issue of TESOL Inc&#8217;s magazine, Essential Teacher, vol. 6, issue 3-4, October 2009.
Alvino Fantini, SIT professor emeritus, addresses teachers who use a holistic approach to language teaching. &#8220;Culture/Cross-Culture: Identifying and Using Language [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matadmissions.wordpress.com&blog=1923525&post=1552&subd=matadmissions&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Today &amp; Yesterday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[


Photo by Michal Czerwonka for The New York Times


In an article in the June 26, 2009, New York Times, Samuel Freedman features the story of Habib Hosseiny, an alumnus of SIT&#8217;s MA in Teaching (1979).
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		<title>Returning to a Place We Know</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to the new students who began their first summer courses on Monday, Tuesday was the initial day for the 16 students returning to SIT for their second summer.  Returning to a place we know can show us how we are different.
Asked by Program Chair Susan Barduhn to reflect on the past year developing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matadmissions.wordpress.com&blog=1923525&post=1510&subd=matadmissions&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New Class, Summer 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, fifteen students begin SIT&#8217;s MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.   In addition to English, they speak 15 other languages, including these

18%  Arabic, French
15%  Spanish
9%  Russian
6%  Korean, Portuguese
3%  Czech, German, Kiswahili, Loma, Malagasy, Mandarin Chinese, Quechua, Ukrainian

They include citizens of Jordan, Kenya, Sudan, and the United States.
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		<title>Repaying Student Loans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is from Michael Ireland, Director of SIT Financial Aid. 
Good News for Student Loan Borrowers
It is never too early to start thinking about repaying student loans.  Some good news on the repayment front is that there are two new options that will help many students repay their loans:
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, May 30, marked graduation ceremonies for SIT Graduate Institute.  Besides the recognition of the 265 graduates, a feature of the day was rousing remarks by Diane Larsen-Freeman, long-time faculty member and beloved friend of SIT.  In her speech, Larsen-Freeman described the relationships that language and language learning have with all of the other of SIT&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matadmissions.wordpress.com&blog=1923525&post=1479&subd=matadmissions&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an exciting development, the entire program of SIT&#8217;s Spring 2009 Sandanona Conference on the Teaching and Learning of Language is available online.
Part of the Donald B. Watt Library&#8217;s continuing expansions, the digital collection now includes MAT student presentations with abstracts, presenters, locations, and times.  Additionally, selected session hand-outs will be available online following the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matadmissions.wordpress.com&blog=1923525&post=1455&subd=matadmissions&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 12:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[


Jim Cummins


Responding to an article by Jim Cummins, Stephanie Wilton Kumagai bases her insights on experience teaching in Japan and Costa Rica as well as her SIT learning.  Her final presentation for the academic year MAT, &#8220;She Said What?!,&#8221; is a demonstration of the teaching skills required to turn miscommunication in intercultural classrooms into productive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matadmissions.wordpress.com&blog=1923525&post=1441&subd=matadmissions&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 20:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not much has changed on the campus in the past two years since these views of SIT were filmed in May 2007.  With happy thanks to Erin Erickson.

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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working toward SIT&#8217;s MA in Teaching English as a Second Language in US Public Schools and a Vermont teacher&#8217;s license, Colleen responds to a challenge from her professor in a class on literacy. 
She identifies what she wants to remember.  It is a personal statement and one that all teachers must answer for themselves.  Doing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matadmissions.wordpress.com&blog=1923525&post=1425&subd=matadmissions&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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