Open AccessTeaching Kansas Environment and Culture in the KU Academic Accelerator Program
Author(s) -
Antha Cotton-Spreckelmeyer
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
issues in language instruction at the applied english center
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.