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Anonymous Mon Jun 30 03:21:54 2014 No.5076662 [Reply] [Original]

My brother will be teaching his first semester at a local community college in the fall. He'll be teaching English as a second language to students who should be able to operate at a college level. The course requires a "reader"--any book whose purpose is basically to build the students' vocabularies.

As I said, it's his first time teaching, so he isn't quite sure which book he should assign. He is considering Beowulf and Common Sense together because the former is short enough that it can be read for in-class discussions between students, and he thinks that the latter is more substantial than just choosing a classic which might be taught in high school. I thought I might get some suggestions from any of you to pass along.

Pic unrelated.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 03:28:01 2014 No.5076690 Why not a good translation of Borges?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 04:51:40 2014 No.5076902 >>5076690 Why do you suggest that? If you were an instructor, would you choose to teach Borges to your students?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 05:01:12 2014 No.5076913 >>5076662 He should assign Hegel. Easy reads for beginners. Concepts there can mean anything.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 18:14:40 2014 No.5078894 that's a cool picture, can I save it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 18:16:43 2014 No.5078900 >>5076690 >giving people learning English as a second language Borges to read you are real dumb

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 19:25:17 2014 No.5079082 >>5078894 You'll have to ask him.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 19:27:37 2014 No.5079089 File: 81 KB, 437x588, god_peter.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5079082 Hmm. Picture didn't stick.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 19:33:43 2014 No.5079106 >>5079089 >pleb rabbit offering carrots to patrician antler rabbit I love it

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 20:17:52 2014 No.5079253 File: 37 KB, 253x397, GR.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] get them all to sing along with "You'll never go wrong with a pig"

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:28:41 2014 No.5079529 Hamlet or Macbeth should be easy for people who are not good with English.

Anonymous Mon Jun 30 22:35:07 2014 No.5079700

ITT: lit trolls the OP mercilessly.

OP, my wife is a bilingual teacher. Based on the kind of things she talks about when she talks about her job, I'd say Beowulf and Common Sense are bad choices because they feature older styles and figures of speech that do not fit nicely into the modern English your brother is no doubt expected to teach them. If he had time, he could use those texts to give his students some background on the history and evolution of our language (no doubt with a choice bit of Shakespeare thrown in), but they do not serve the purpose of a "reader."

I would suggest something more like

- All the Pretty Horses
- Heart of Darkness
- Lord of the Flies
- Consider the Lobster
- The Life of Pi

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 22:56:42 2014 No.5079752 File: 360 KB, 1227x1600, 1392328739440.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5079700 Thanks, friend. Have my favorite picture ever.

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