Do you know any psychoanalytical theory that explains the reason why students keep forgetting the simplest MLA style rule (italics for book titles, double quotation marks for article titles)? There should be some psychic mechanism of resis…

the more i teach, the more convinced i become that there is little relevance b/w the superficial fluency and the inner deep thinking. indeed it's often esl students who barely speak up in classes but write extremely provocative and stimula…

The five-paragraph essay structure is a straight-jacket students don't know how to shake off. But I often suspect that they don't really want to be free from it, for this ready-made format is so easy to recycle and a still viable strategy …