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autumnjanai

@autumnjanai@ohay.ooo

クィア・僧侶(得度を得る)・日系と西欧系のアメリカ人・日本に住んでいる
Queer Buddhist priest. Mixed Nikkei American “returnee” living in Japan and student of Shinshu studies.

Header: A photo of a double rainbow over housing in rural Japan. (photo by me)
Avatar: A close-up photo of wild blue hydrangeas. (photo by me)

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renkotsuban, to random
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LB> Language schools hire teachers with little to no actual background in TESOL, pay them poorly and treat them like they're disposable, then charge exorbitant prices for the privilege of learning English from a """native""" speaker (which naturally privileges white folks over people whose L1 is not English or people who don't "look" like Eng is their first language eg SEAsians, etc)

They teach to tests because that's the best you can hope from a setup like this

autumnjanai,
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@renkotsuban all of the above is why I got out of EFL/ESL, even with having a TESOL degree. I saw how little it meant to (esp yt) EFL/ESL teachers who just defaulted to the “native speaker is best, I don’t believe the research, just give me easy to copy games/drills” shit and they think they’re doing a world of good teaching while bitching to other teachers how “stupid” (their words, not mine) their students were for not progressing. It’s easy to blame students when you refuse to consider you as the teacher and your methods may be the problem.

autumnjanai,
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@renkotsuban TESOL conferences in the US aren’t much better (at least not some of the regional ones I had attended, also the difference between teachers vs grad students and phd research), and for most of the teachers, the “research” is just their own class results and not whether the results were able to be replicated by other teachers in different settings, but “trust me, this is /the/ hack to get your students to improve and have fun, and it’s so easy to do!” they’ll just vaguely go “communicative method!” too as methodology framework.

autumnjanai,
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@renkotsuban yiiiikes. but also not surprised given the attitude that “anyone [native speaker] can teach! it’s not difficult!”. but then again teaching/learning isn’t the goal of most of these private companies, profits and selling themed babysitting to those ignorant about language learning is the goal, so the fact they lack academic and teaching standards and cut corners where they can… 🤷🏻‍♀️

autumnjanai,
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@renkotsuban right? trying the same thing but expecting different results… 🤦🏻‍♀️

autumnjanai,
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@renkotsuban that and trusting whatever proposals are pitched by the greedy private companies…

autumnjanai, to random
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LBT: Both my jiichan (grandpa) and his younger brother were farm workers who developed kidney diseases from dehydration and other problems exacerbated by conditions of farm labor life and lack of labor rights (and lack of basic health knowledge and bodily impact). This is just part of why I support UFW and all farm workers having safer working conditions through labor rights.

drmambobob, to random
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I got aggressively beeped at by a BMW driver at a mini roundabout on campus. I was turning right at the mini roundabout having priority over a car to my left (straight in this case as there isn’t a left exit) but the BMW came bolting down from my right expecting to have priority over me even though I was already in the mini roundabout. I really hate drivers like this…they think they have priority all the time and everyone is in their way…

autumnjanai,
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@drmambobob probably, if they considered anything beyond their entitlement to the road, they more likely assumed you were a student?

at least that’s my experience commuting by bicycle on uni campus when folks in higher end cars get impatient with cyclists.

autumnjanai, to random
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The struggle of trying to explain to monoracial folks that:

a) Interracial relationships do not inherently mean both parties are free of racism,

b) That multiracial children of said couples are not always lovingly accepted by both sides’ relatives or that the relatives will “eventually come around”,

c) That multiracial children are not always raised by being taught about all of their heritages (esp in nurturing ways),

d) That multiracial children are not always accepted by the respective monoracial community members that they share heritage with,
etc. etc.

Folks will say “I’m not racist!” yet they refuse to accept people’s lived experiences that contradict the ideal situations they imagine for interracial relationships and families. You can’t be anti-racist if you don’t believe when people speak of their personal experiences with racism or write it off as a purely individual experience that is an “aberration”. 🥴

autumnjanai, to random
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Forgot to share this the other day and good thing I took photos of this maple at school when I did because 80% of the leaves were blown away the day after in the wind storm we had. Btw its the same tree in both photos, just different angles.

A view of a Japanese maple tree with bright red and orange leaves as seen near the trunk and looking skyward.

autumnjanai, to random
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Is it just google or are all search engines basically being rendered useless because the top results are just paid links and LLM word-salad sites parading as information?

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