1. I can’t remember where I came across this ELT Buzz collection on nativespeakerism – LinkedIn, maybe? https://www.eltbuzz.com/tag/native-speaker/

Ironically, ELT Buzz itself https://www.eltbuzz.com/ has a bit of a native speaker vibe, but it does a good job hoovering up news and info on ELT from across the world.

2. Prompted by the fact that unfortunately ELT Buzz’s post, Who are the top ten people in ELT (English Language Teaching) globally? doesn’t seem to be available any longer, I asked ChatGPT myself who the top twenty people in ELT and the top twenty people in English language and linguistics might be. Here’s a link – a new ChatGPT feature, I think, and certainly a useful one – to our conversation: https://chat.openai.com/share/26352f9d-291f-4322-928b-1f5eaf72a23d

Fittingly, the ubiquitous Scott Thornbury comes in at number 2 and at number 13 in the ELT list. Care to guess who came top? There’s only one in the ELT top twenty that I hadn’t heard of – I’ll not embarrass myself by saying who – and rather more I’d not heard of in the language and linguistics top twenty. Both lists were pretty good attempts, though, I thought.

3. And still with ChatGPT, here’s a recent piece from The Guardian, As AI cheating booms, so does the industry detecting it: ‘We couldn’t keep up with demand’ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/05/as-ai-cheating-booms-so-does-the-industry-detecting-it-we-couldnt-keep-up-with-demand

4. I’ve just discovered Jotter, the Cambridge University Journal of Trainee Teacher Educational Research https://jotter.educ.cam.ac.uk/ Well worth a rummage around in their archives!

Try this one by Rachel Evans, “She can’t learn while playing in sand!”: Reception and year 2 pupils’ perspectives on the relationship between play and learning https://jotter.educ.cam.ac.uk/volume7/033-079-evansr/index.html

or this one by Catrin Osborne, Rule Britannia?: An insight into pupils’ perspectives on the fundamental British values https://jotter.educ.cam.ac.uk/volume14/027-054osbornec/index.html

PDFs of both below.

5. And, finally, an interview with Annie Ernaux, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature last year, from the Canadian magazine, The Walrus https://thewalrus.ca/annie-ernaux/

Here’s a site dedicated to her work (written with Annie Ernaux, rather than by her) https://www.annie-ernaux.org/