quotations from my reading and learning in education and EFL

As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply effected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another's voices, in recognizing one another's presence. 

- belle hooks, Teaching to Transgress 

The worst thing for student security is teacher insecurity.

- Marti Anderson 

We can formulate a rule of thumb: the more context, the less grammar.

Scott Thornbury, How to Teach Grammar, 4

 As mentioned, UBL posits that grammar is not an "out there" system but an emergent property of human communication and, furthermore, that actual language experience shapes language over the full life span.

(

Multilingual Turn, page 40; 

Bybee, 2010) 

...monolingual bias become unsustainable for the field of SLA...

Lourdes Ortega, "Ways Forward for a Bi/Multilingual Turn in SLA", The Multilingual Turn

(The question of bias is expanded on insightfully in Kachru's and Sridhar's articles in the Winter 1994 TESOL Quarterly.)

Regarding reading audience problems: 

Each writer has its own audience (intended readers) that might be part of a discourse community in which there is a degree of shared understandings and knowledge. Your class (the actual readers) may not be part of that discourse community and so they will make very different meaning and will need scaffolding if they want to read it as part of a particular community of readers. This is something to consider as you teach—what is your role as a teacher in this dilemma? 

- Leslie Turpin (4 Skills class) 

The magic of teaching happens when we can get the students off the page, out of the book and into the classroom community sharing the language together.