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Shaping an agenda throughexperience(s)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2016
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After finishing a B.A. degree in History and Political Sciences from ValparaisoUniversity, I began my post-undergraduate life going into the U. S. Peace Corpsand spending three years as an English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher inlycees in Morocco. After all, in 1973, agreeing to a freesummer vacation in Morocco for Peace Corps training, if nothing else, seemedlike a good deal. Little did I know that an EFL/ESL (English as a secondlanguage)/applied linguistics life would begin at that point. I did learn that Iliked teaching (which surprised me a bit) and the opportunities for creativityit provided (even if teaching with ‘Martin and Jillian’ (Broughton1968) and First things first (Alexander 1972) (for those who remember). As a young teacher, Ivividly remember, as a break from the routine, teaching my senior students thelyrics to ‘All Along the Watchtower,’ first the Bob Dylan version,then the Jimi Hendricks version. Sometimes we just have to take some chances.Morocco was also a great place to be in the middle of multilingualism in action:Moroccan Arabic, Berber, Modern Standard Arabic, French, Spanish, and English.For many of my students, English was their fifth language.
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