John Chandlee Turnbull

M.A. TESOL | Ph.D. student, Culture, Literacy & Language, University of Texas at San Antonio

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Dangling chicken for Maryland blue crabs

December 28, 2019February 1, 2020John Turnbull Leave a comment

This is a writing sample for students in the intensive-English program at UTSA. They were writing about how they acquired a skill and the steps that they took to learn it.

Playing a ‘cascarita’ with words

September 1, 2019September 2, 2019John Turnbull Leave a comment

This post appeared on my earlier website, The Global Game: Soccer as a Second Language (2003-2010), on January 6, 2009, and helps explain how I made the transition, over ten years, from freelancer on world football to, today, an English as a Second Language specialist at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Letter from Santa Marta, Magdalena

August 9, 2019August 9, 2019John Turnbull Leave a comment

My new location is on the Caribbean, one of Colombia’s oldest continuously settled colonial cities, founded in 1525 as a port for shipping out gold, silver and other precious metals and for bringing in enslaved people.

Review: ‘Fruit of the Drunken Tree’

April 23, 2019April 24, 2019John Turnbull Leave a comment

The author, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, stamps my book copy with a design prepared for such occasions, that of the flowers of the borrachero tree (see photo above) and a fragment from her novel: "We were rich in our stories."

Variations on ‘slavery’ in the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA)

March 7, 2019March 7, 2019John Turnbull Leave a comment

A model for a corpus-analysis assignment, ENGL 203, "Rhetoric and Composition II," Northern Illinois University, spring 2019

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  • 15 sites of spiritual communion January 3, 2021
  • Headliner: My ten December 21, 2020
  • An introduction of 1 minute, 8 seconds July 8, 2020
  • Coronavirus: the unseen cause with visible effects April 22, 2020
  • Entering El Valle de la Paz March 9, 2020

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