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Teaching Kansas Environment and Culture in the KU Academic Accelerator Program

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Antha Cotton-Spreckelmeyer

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

issues in language instruction

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2576-8387

DOI - 10.17161/ili.v4i0.7004

Subject(s) - phrase , simple (philosophy) , mathematics education , work (physics) , word (group theory) , academic year , computer science , engineering , psychology , linguistics , artificial intelligence , philosophy , epistemology , mechanical engineering

As Christopher Hitchings (2008) says in his seminal work, The Secret Life of Words, “A new word is a solution to a problem” (p. 5). This observation proved true many times in my year of directing and teaching international students in the Kansas University Academic Accelerator Program (KUAAP). In fact, that simple phrase became my touchstone and inspiration during the initial terms of the program in 2014-2015.

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