Author Archives: roycross

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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Tuesday, 1st April (Cambridge)

Posted on April 1, 2025 by roycross

1. Here’s an open-access special issue of The Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning on Local Perspectives on Language Teacher Motivation and Engagement edited by Sarah Mercer and David Smid https://www.jpll.org/index.php/journal/issue/view/language_teacher_motivation_and_engagement Some intriguing titles: how about Unveiling the Motivational … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 27th March (Cambridge)

Posted on March 27, 2025 by roycross

1. TeachingEnglish has just had a two-month focus on Planning lessons and courses. I’ve picked out three items from the riches available: A. The recordings of the three sessions in the online Creating lessons that work mini-event last week: “three … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 25th March (Richmond)

Posted on March 25, 2025 by roycross

1. Here’s the recording of a recent Future of English conversation with David Crystal https://youtu.be/64HRT797Lsc One of the easiest (and most engaging) people I ever interviewed: you just light the blue touchpaper and sit back! And when you next have … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 20th March (Cambridge)

Posted on March 20, 2025 by roycross

1. I hadn’t realised that today was World Happiness Day until I saw that Gallup’s annual World Happiness Report was published today https://www.gallup.com/analytics/349487/world-happiness-report.aspx Finland is the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row! PDF of … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 18th March (Richmond)

Posted on March 18, 2025 by roycross

1. Two free from this month’s Literary Review: Sea of Troubles, a review by Owen Matthews of a ‘brilliantly written, convincingly argued and compelling book’, Baltic: The Future of Europe by Oliver Moody https://literaryreview.co.uk/sea-of-troubles Death from the Clouds, a review … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 13th March (Cambridge)

Posted on March 13, 2025 by roycross

1. James Thomas’s new book, Discovering English with VersaText, is launched online this coming Saturday, 15th March, at 15:00 UK time. More info and registration here https://bit.ly/vtbl2025 and PDF below. Everyone gets a free chapter! ‘Discovering English with VersaText’ helps … Continue reading →

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