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[owlectomy]

I am officially in platonic academic love with Stephen Krashen, advocate of bilingual education, reading a lot, and not the Accelerated Reader program. There are a lot of good articles on his web page, and a whole book!

For the last five years, I have been ordering and reading Star Trek novels in French and German from Amazon, translations from English. They are inauthentic, have no cultural information, and make little contribution to my intellectual life. But they are easy to read (I have a great deal of background knowledge in this area), and very pleasurable. Narrow reading works.

(Shifty eyes) That doesn't sound like me one bit, no, not at all...

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[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

I am extremely amused by this, and I need to tell my program head about it.