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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a teaching method that emphasizes writing not only in English classes but also in other disciplines. RS: It's called writing across the curriculum, and it's an old idea, but one t...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and this week on Wordmaster: talking about disabilities. RS: Mark Aronoff is a linguist at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York. He says over the last twenty years, it's become difficult to find a m...

Welcome to Wordmaster. I'm Adam Phillips sitting in this week for Rosanne Skirble and Avi Arditti. Today, we look at an innovative master's degree program at the New School in New York. It was specifically designed to teach teachers how to teach Engl...

Guest host Mike O'Sullivan talks with an author (familiar to our longtime listeners) whose newest books use fairy tales to teach foreign languages to American children. David Burke is known as Slangman, and in his earlier books, he translated the lan...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER, our guest is the author of a new book called On Words: Insight Into How Our Words Work -- and Don't. RS: Paula LaRocque has worked for many years as a writing instructor and newsp...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: from an interview on C-SPAN television, political pollster and strategist Frank Luntz talks about his book Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear. RS: At on...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: communication skills for the elderly. RS: And to teach it to them is George Shames, professor emeritus in psychology and communications disorders at the University of Pittsburgh....

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on Wordmaster: interviews with two English teachers, one from Nepal, the other from Afghanistan. I met them recently at the international convention of TESOL. TESOL is the professional organization Teachers of Englis...