John Chandlee Turnbull

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

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An introduction of 1 minute, 8 seconds

July 8, 2020July 8, 2020John Turnbull Leave a comment

Self-introduction that accounts for my vocation as an instructor of English as an additional language.

Coronavirus: the unseen cause with visible effects

April 22, 2020April 22, 2020John Turnbull Leave a comment

Model for a cause-and-effect personal essay, on the theme of coronavirus.

Entering El Valle de la Paz

March 9, 2020April 6, 2020John Turnbull 2 Comments

Winds of the spirit blew soothingly late this morning through Valle de la Paz cemetery in Hargill, Texas, the place of interment of Chicana author and borderlands theorist Gloria Anzaldúa.

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.

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  • Rhetorical occasions: Arguing for new trolleys June 27, 2021
  • Journalistic decay, epistemological certainty March 7, 2021
  • Personal literacy testimonio February 16, 2021
  • 15 sites of spiritual communion January 3, 2021
  • Headliner: My ten December 21, 2020

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Language & migration

  • 'The Nation' on immigration policy
  • Aikuma Project Strengthening the world’s treasure languages
  • Code Switch (NPR) A pastiche of race, ethnicity, culture, and language
  • Democracy Now! on immigrant rights
  • First Languages Australia Interactive map of Australia’s indigeneous languages
  • Global Voices (Language) Translations of international stories on language rights and advocacy
  • Language on the Move A peer-reviewed sociolinguistics research site devoted to multilingualism, language learning, and intercultural communication in the contexts of globalization and migration.
  • Mother Tongue Film Festival The Smithsonian’s Mother Tongue Film Festival celebrates cultural and linguistic diversity by showcasing films and filmmakers from around the world, highlighting the crucial role languages play in our daily lives.
  • Pro Publica on immigration Investigating how immigration policy impacts people’s lives
  • Untranslatable Exotic words from the world’s treasure languages
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