A testimonio prepared for BBL 7123, "Sociocultural Contexts of Literacy," University of Texas at San Antonio
Personal literacy testimonio
Language
An introduction of 1 minute, 8 seconds
Self-introduction that accounts for my vocation as an instructor of English as an additional language.
Playing a ‘cascarita’ with words
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.
Review: ‘Fruit of the Drunken Tree’
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)
A model for a corpus-analysis assignment, ENGL 203, "Rhetoric and Composition II," Northern Illinois University, spring 2019
John Chandlee Turnbull 