Aretha Franklin prepared a lovely rendition of I will survive, so did I,
Some lively info about my work....
My own blog:
Serendipity wanted me to start a personal blog: ma-serendipity.
some people shared my entries...
1) My interest in The Far EAST:
Final Paper: Mons en contacte: L'Educació com a factor de modernitat en Asia Oriental (1870-1915)
i.e. ... My interest in Korea:
2) My webquest -
MEETING OTHER MERRY SOULS INSEOUL
3) My learning interest on Language: ESL-filoxenia
from my self-learning project:
4) My self-learning project for EFL: autonomousenglishlearner
4.1. Experiences as a tutor/advisor (self-learning programmes)
- UJI- Castelló. Departament de Filologia Anglesa- Asesorament de llengua anglesa al CAL (2001-03)
- Member of the Distance Learning Program -4t-5th level EOI (2000-2005)
- Tutor at That's English: EOI Castello (1993-95 and 1999-2002) - EOI Manresa (2009-12)
4.1. Experiences as a lecturer
TEACHING TALKS
* "Expressing yourself: Written production in the 5th level in the Official Language School", presented in the February 1995 at the I Seminar of English Teachers in the O.L.S. (90')* "Selection of Teaching materials for Speaking", presented in February 1995 at the Communicative Teaching Seminar held at Permanent Educational Center of Valencia. (3 h.)* "Towards Text Awareness" aimed at Secondary Schools, presented in December 1995 at the Cooperative Teaching Seminar held at Permanent Educational Center of Valencia. (90') * "Towards Text Awareness" aimed at High Schools, presented in December 1995 at the Cooperative Teaching Seminar held at Permanent Educational Center of Valencia. (90')
* “Reading & Writing techniques for A level teachers” presented in February-march 1996 at the Cooperative Teaching Seminar held at Permanent Educational Center of Valencia. (30 h.)
* “Motivation & Communication through Reading” February-march 1996 at the Certification of Pedagogic Training for English trainees held at Universitat Jaume I in Castelló (Spain) (2 h.)* “Criteria to select Speaking materials” , presented presented in April 1997 at the New trends in Communicative Teaching Seminar held at Permanent Educational Center of Vinaròs (3 h.)
5) Other interests/Studies
- Interest in the press:
Grau de llicenciatura amb la tesina "La llengua valenciana en la premsa del País Valencià. Una anàlisi d'actituds lingüístiques", Universitat de València (1991)
Subscriber of Prognosis -Prague
Regular reader of English-language European newspapers: 1990's
Central Europe: The Warsaw Voice or a literate weekly in The Prague Post.
UK: The European
- Interest in translation:
Postgrade Course in Translation (200 h.) held at
Universitat Jaume I in Castelló, 1992-93.
- Interest in language learning :
- Government grant (Llicencia d'Estudis de la Gen. Valenciana) to prepare reading material for upper-intermediate level: “Learning to read, willing to write/ A journey through Europe’s soul” (1995-96)
- Master Course in Teaching Foreign Languages (540 h.) held at Valencian University, 1994-96.
- Government grant (Llicencia d'Estudis de la Gen. Catalana) to prepare material for the autonomous learner: “Tècniques per promoure l’autonomia
en els alumnes a partir de 3r d’EOI (l’aprenentatge sempre és auto-aprenentatge” (2006-07) (DOGC n.43471, 17/7/2006) https://sites.google.com/site/mangelcastenglishlearner/home?pli=1
- Interest in Sociology:
* Sociological course “Constructing human mind” (60 h) held at the
Sociological seminar of Barcelona 1995-96 and 1997-98
* Sociological course “On shame and (the feeling of)
Guilty” (30h) held at Morella
Summer seminar 1996
- Interest in the borders:
In Some books I've contributed:
- Coeditor i redactor del llibre de sociologia
La mort humana de Lluís V. Aracil,
Empúries (1998)
Premi de didáctica John McDowell-1999 per innovació en l'ensenyament de l'anglès com a L2
pel treball A journey across a great new nation: Europe (2001)
- 1) “Algunos aspectos del yo en el Libro de buen amor” -Ribalta , 6 (1993), 91-105.
- 2) La Crítica Literaria a Point Counterpoint de Aldous Huxley (Ribalta. Quaderns d'Aplicació Didàctica i Investigació).(3), 115-25, Castelló, 1991
- 3) La Paradoxa en The importance of Being Earnest d'Oscar Wilde (Ribalta. Quaderns d'Aplicació Didàctica i Investigació).(5), 71-79, Castelló, 1992
6) et caetera:
1) one novel: The man who was thursday2) Brave new world's author - here3) one historian: Norman Davies - Oh Europe (1996)! -1.8 kg4) a film: Casablanca (1941)
7) Other local activities with languages
- concurs d'oratòria en anglès de JCI Manresa -2010
- Tallers lingüístics - NOTTE Ludica - amb Ajunt. de Manresa- primavera 2006
8) Other bodies where i used my languages
Time ago:* Coordinator of the Linguistic (French, Italian & English) Activities Program held by Vila-real City Council, Nov.'91-May'92.* Teacher of Spanish to the Bosnian refugees in Vila-real, Winter 1993.
8) Other bodies where i used my languages
- SCI-cat: Servei Civil international
- Couchsurfing
CODA amb les muses:
I will survive by Émilie Dequenne in Pas son genre