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I AM NOT PAMELA DRUCKERMAN

When I came to France in 2003 as a young parent and American ex-pat, here because of my husband’s job in a multinational corporation,  I quickly started to realize that my experience didn’t seem to be quite that of the other, mainly white American women whom I met through the company’s spousal network, or who…
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The Language Learner as Subject and the Language Teacher as Therapist?

            As anyone who has learned a foreign language knows, especially if you are an introvert and aren’t comfortable exchanging personal details with strangers, or are a perfectionist who hates to put forward anything less than impeccable work, progress can often mean forcing oneself to overcome those inhibitions or to accept those imperfections.               …
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