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Monthly Archives: July 2022
Thursday, 28th July
1. A ‘golden oldie’ on translanguaging from NALDIC that I stumbled across the other day https://ealjournal.org/2016/07/26/what-is-translanguaging/ This is the NALDIC home page https://naldic.org.uk/ 2. One from Mel B (who, thus labelled, may now never speak to me again) on How … Continue reading
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Tuesday, 25th July
1. As my mother might say, I wasn’t born yesterday, nor did I come down the Swale in a tub, but this is the first I’ve heard of the terms em-dash and en-dash: https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/em-dash.html I rather like The Punctuation Guide! … Continue reading
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Thursday, 21st July
1. Free access to a wide range of resources for ninety days from Oxford University Press: https://elt.oup.com/feature/global/free-trial/?cc=gb&selLanguage=en Nothing to lose on this one except your e-mail address, as far as I can see! 2. A thoughtful piece from Devi Sridhar … Continue reading
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Tuesday, 19th July
1. Here’s the latest two episodes in Alexandra Mihai’s “Around the world” podcast series: https://educationalist.eu/ Jenny Frederick from Yale University on Leading an Integrated Center (sic!) for Teaching and Learning and Simon Beausaert from Maastricht University on A Research-Based Approach … Continue reading
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Thursday, 14th July
1. Next Tuesday, 19th July, at 12:00 UK time, Simon Borg’s leading a webinar for teacher educators, looking at the competences they need to develop to support teachers online https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/which-competences-do-teacher-educators-need-supporting-teachers-online It’s based on a research paper Simon wrote for the … Continue reading
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Tuesday, 12th July
1. Three pieces from the international edition of Der Spiegel: i) a very forthright piece on Boris Johnson’s fall from grace https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/boris-johnsons-abgang-und-die-folgen-fuer-europa-warum-wir-auf-die-briten-nicht-verzichten-koennen-1657274390-a-590a7ec1-8e75-4bab-a638-e29a11022ee8 ii) a visit to Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s home town https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-visit-to-volodymyr-zelenskyy-s-hometown-kryvyi-rih-city-of-steel-a-95aa1a79-905c-462f-aa02-c61b103321f8 iii) an interview with the Afghan Minister of the … Continue reading
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Thursday, 7th July
1. NATESOL’s next free webinar is this Saturday, 9th July at 10:00 UK time with Marijana Macis from Manchester Metropolitan University: Teaching Collocations in the EFL Classroom: New Insights from Research. How are collocations best taught? More info and registration … Continue reading
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Tuesday, 5th July
1. Here’s a piece from Nature Neuroscience with no fewer than 24 credited authors, Shared computational principles for language processing in humans and deep language models (DLMs) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-022-01026-4.pdf Worth persevering with: not as difficult a read as it might seem … Continue reading
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