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1. During the recent IATEFL conference in Harrogate, the IATEFL media team interviewed a number of delegates around key ELT topics, including sustainability, and noted that a large percentage of people struggled or were uncomfortable discussing sustainability on camera. The next free IATEFL webinar, Sustainability in ELT – fatigue or taboo?, presented by Anca de Vries & Christopher Graham, will investigate this public discomfort at 15:00 UK time next Saturday, 3rd June. More info and registration here https://www.iatefl.org/events/438
2. The ‘Editor’s Choice’ free article in the latest issue of ELTJ is Freire’s problem-posing model: critical pedagogy and young learners by Nadine Nelson & Julian Chen https://academic.oup.com/eltj/article/77/2/132/6613567 It’s not quite as heavy a read as its title might make it sound. From the abstract: “The instructional rationale behind critical pedagogy is to provide students the opportunity to voice their personal stories and opinions, and to reflect and act upon social concerns relevant to their daily lives”. PDF below. If you scroll back through the archive, you’ll find a free article (or two) in each issue.
3. I hope this one from The Economist works: As it spreads across the world, who owns English? Or, for that matter, French or Portuguese? https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/05/25/as-it-spreads-across-the-world-who-owns-english
4. And, finally, two gift articles from The New York Times in which, for one person at least, the philosophy of “fake it until you make it” finally gets its comeuppance: Elizabeth Holmes Reports to Prison to Begin More Than 11-Year Sentence https://tinyurl.com/ymfepk2u and here’s the whole hubristic story, The Epic Rise and Fall of Elizabeth Holmes https://tinyurl.com/523susc6
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