11 août 2004

useful?

i wonder if what i want to do is useful

i just want to get done quickly and easily, but i see that working again with the same topic drives me crazy... or bores me, really...
plus the more i think about it the less i find a use for this research. i mean, we all know what problems and strengths ESL/EFL teachers have... now what?? this is also what i think about our TESOL caucus.... what's the point anymore? the only thing is that NNEST are still discriminated against when they try to find jobs, but what can we do about that? change our names? change colors? erase our accents?

so that, and the question of time... yeah no one else has done it ok, but now what?
question of administration... what on earth could i do about that?
i like administration.

i love the stuff about educational policies, i think i would love to work with switzerland, for example, on a curriculum or something like that, for those new cantons that will have English as a first second language. i liked sociolinguistics but i don't know if i'm passionated enough about it either...

what else insterests me? i don't like pur linguistics stuff, and i hate phonology. i wasn't VERY interested in world englishes. i mean, it's interesting, but then what? is the point only to say that all kinds of englishes are valuable? to make sociolinguistic profiles of all countries of the world?