Professional development should begin with YOU, I suppose, but it is a little difficult when nobody is watching what you do. I have been working in China for 17 months now, and no administrator or supervisor of mine has ever been in the classroom while I was teaching. I'm not saying it would necessarily be different elsewhere, but I feel like maybe it would.
New semester starts on Monday! Plans for 09/10 are still up in the air. Many possibilities, but nothing concrete yet.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Idea for Annotated Bibliography on Chinese English Research Published in China
Note: Obviously, I can't do this alone and I need help from people who read Chinese.
1. Identify which journals in China are likely to have "good" research on English / Applied Linguistics.
2. Search databases for articles on Chinese English / Chinglish / China English.
3. Read abstracts. (thankfully in English.)
4. Read articles. (this is the step I can't do)
5. Write summaries of articles.
6. Cast a wider net to all 45 bazillion academic journals in China.
7. Repeat steps 2-6, but during step 3, attempt to weed out articles which are obviously just summaries or plagiarized or otherwise worthless.
8. Publish.
I don't know how feasible this is, but I think it's at least worth pursuing steps 1-3 even if nothing else comes of it.