John Chandlee Turnbull

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

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Critical pedagogy

Working with zines

LinkMay 26, 2017May 26, 2017John Turnbull

Yet another rhetorical occasion: having students create zines.

The uses of ‘narratio’

AsideMay 25, 2017May 25, 2017John Turnbull

How to use Ahmed Badr's testimony and his site Narratio while teaching ESL sections of ENGL 103 in the fall?

Henry Giroux & the ‘culture of cruelty’

May 5, 2017May 31, 2017John Turnbull Leave a comment

Educational philosopher and culture critic Henry Giroux's "culture of cruelty" and its implication for language teaching.

All the ‘invisible disabilities’

March 3, 2017May 9, 2017John Turnbull Leave a comment

The seminar “Recognizing and Embracing Cultural Communications and Sensitivity in the Classroom” supplied the opportunity to examine my own prejudices about classroom behavior.

Elbowian ‘contraries’

October 14, 2016May 31, 2017John Turnbull Leave a comment

My problem in reading Peter Elbow's essay “Embracing Contraries in the Teaching Process” is that I have been reading Paulo Freire over the past several months.

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Blog posts

  • 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
  • Academia.edu
  • ChronicleVitae
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