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Makers are the new learners: language learning and the makers movement
If your idea of learning a language involves staring at whiteboards and wading through grammar books, here’s a different approach. By focusing on doing things – rather than learning about and around them
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Unfinished Business: how I failed as a Business English teacher (and why that matters)
Blog challenges are either super-exciting or super-awkward to respond to. This is both. It’s awkward and unsettling and difficult to re-live failures, and this is what the challenge is about. But at the
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Tonight Only: Ancient Language Learning Method Finally Revealed
You’ve been given fool-proof methods, total immersion package holidays, smartphone apps and programmed interval revisions. You’ve signed on crash courses and dragged your laptop through endless language-learning hangouts. Tonight I’m sharing a secret
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The Gap and the Work: Disappointment and Taste in Learning Foreign Languages
I’ve admired and enjoyed the work of Ira Glass for a long time. When I recently heard his thoughts on creativity, my respect for what he does became even bigger – and I
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3 Unexpected Lessons From 1 Language Teaching Conference
Last year, my first IATEFL conference nearly killed me. This year I did it again. April is truly the cruelest of months for English teachers. If you want to know what I learned at
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Research vs. response: 2 language learning modes & how to use them better
Don’t let the title put you off. This post is actually about something that happens every day for every language learner. And getting some answers to the questions listed here will improve the way
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