Monthly Archives: June 2024

1. ELLRA https://ellra.org/ is the Early Language Learning Research Association and it’s holding its ‘1st Anniversary Web Festival’ at 12:30 UK time each day next week, starting Monday 1st July. Programme and registration here https://ellra.org/event/ellra-first-anniversary-web-festival 2. Here’s the first of … Continue reading →

1. Short notice, this one: from Aqueduto at 14:00 UK time tomorrow, Wednesday 26th June, Elevate Your Online Language Teaching Training with AQUEDUTO’s Quality Framework, will be of value to everyone involved in the delivery of online language teacher education … Continue reading →

Blog version: https://roycross.blog/ A day early again today, as I’m off back to school tomorrow to meet some people for the first time since 1973 … !. Macmillan’s Advancing Learning Fast-forward 2024 is repeated at 10:00, 14:00 and 22:30 UK … Continue reading →

Earlier than usual this week, to give you chance to catch the first item below at 09:00 UK time tomorrow, Tuesday morning … 1. Scroll down (a fair way) to June in the ‘Live Webinars’ section of the LanguageCert webinars … Continue reading →

1. Thanks to Artur Taevere for this one: I mentioned to him that I wasn’t quite sure what instructional coaching was last week, and he suggested this introduction, A Beginner’s Guide to Instructional Coaching by Peps Mccrea https://steplab.co/resources/papers/BP6w3bcs/A-Beginners-Guide-to-Instructional-Coaching PDF below. … Continue reading →

1. The first of three on politics this evening, Trust hits new low: 45% of people think politicians put party before country by polling superstar Professor John Curtice https://theconversation.com/trust-hits-new-low-45-of-people-think-politicians-put-party-before-country-232187 I wonder what the comparable figure would be in countries around … Continue reading →

1. The claim that “children use five times more words when playing outdoors compared to indoors” caught my attention when I read it in the leaflet in our weekly vegetable box a few weeks back https://wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/weathering-lifes-storms/ Which research, though? The … Continue reading →

1. My first car was a Triumph Herald. Although some of my friends might now be surprised to hear this, I re-built the entire car – engine, gearbox, suspension, the lot – with a little help from the garage across … Continue reading →