Author Archives: roycross

Tuesday, 6th May (Cambridge)

Posted on May 6, 2025 by roycross

1. This year’s 41st NATESOL conference has as its theme Learners and Learning and is free to attend online. Full details of the programme in the flyer below and booking here https://www.natesol.org/event-details/natesol-annual-conference-2025 Abstracts of all the presentations, including Niall Curry’s … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 1st May (Cambridge)

Posted on May 1, 2025 by roycross

1. What surprises me about this piece from BOLD, How to support highly sensitive children in class, is the very high percentage of children who are affected by a condition I’ve never heard of! https://boldscience.org/how-to-support-highly-sensitive-children-in-class/ Imagine if every sound, sight, … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 29th April (Richmond)

Posted on April 29, 2025 by roycross

1. AI AIn’t going away, however much it might be misbehaving. Here’s a great set of resources from TeachingEnglish, Pathways: AI in language teaching https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/professional-development/teachers/professional-development-pathways/pathways-ai-language-teaching 2. Here’s an important report for the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and the … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 24th April (Cambridge)

Posted on April 24, 2025 by roycross

1. An interesting piece from Chatham House on the relationship between China and India, which they suggest will be of ‘greater long-term significance’ than the relationship between the US and China https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/2025-04/2025-04-23-how-china-india-relations-will-shape-asia-global-order-bajpaee-jie.pdf The China–US relationship is widely regarded as the … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 22nd April (Richmond)

Posted on April 22, 2025 by roycross

1. It’s United Nations International Mother Earth Day today https://www.un.org/en/observances/earth-day Mother Earth is clearly urging a call to action. Nature is suffering. Oceans filling with plastic and turning more acidic. Extreme heat, wildfires and floods, have affected millions of people. … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 17th April (Cambridge)

Posted on April 17, 2025 by roycross

1. Economic concepts in pictures from Visual Capitalist https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ These are their most popular graphics https://www.voronoiapp.com/posts/most-popular and here’s the global economy in 2025 https://www.voronoiapp.com/economy/-How-the-World-Economy-Will-Look-in-2025-3358 and in 2050 (but before the Trump assault on it began, I think) https://www.voronoiapp.com/economy/Visualizing-the-Future-Global-Economy-by-GDP-in-2050-127 2. A … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 15th April (Richmond)

Posted on April 15, 2025 by roycross

1. Trump vs Harvard, two NYT gift articles from the front line of the battle for academic freedom in the USA: The Trump Administration’s Letter to Harvard https://tinyurl.com/mrucmzf7 Harvard’s Response to the Trump Administration https://tinyurl.com/3rzmv455 2. A persuasive piece for … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 10th April (Richmond)

Posted on April 10, 2025 by roycross

1. First up tonight, a good news, bad news piece from The Guardian, Energy demands from AI datacentres to quadruple by 2030, says report https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/10/energy-demands-from-ai-datacentres-to-quadruple-by-2030-says-report The IEA forecast indicates a sharp rise in the requirements of AI, but said threat … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 8th April (Cambridge)

Posted on April 8, 2025 by roycross

1. The latest issue of the European Language Gazette has just been published. Here’s all the issues, including the latest one (you can also sign up for the newsletter yourself) https://www.ecml.at/Resources/Newsletter/tabid/1385/language/en-GB/Default.aspx Here’s a page I’d not noticed earlier, a comprehensive … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 3rd April (Richmond)

Posted on April 3, 2025 by roycross

1. The Healthy Linguistic Diet team, Thomas Bak and Dina Mehmedbegovic-Smith, relaunched their website on the International Day of Multilingualism last week. Here it is! https://healthylinguisticdiet.com/bali-hld-model-launching-on-the-international-day-of-multilingualism-27-3-2025/ 2. I hope this one from The New Yorker is accessible, Are We Taking … Continue reading →

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