Month: April 2013

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HLT Magazine, November 03 : Short Article 1

A good place to start for those of us who want to know about dogme.

http://www.hltmag.co.uk/nov03/sart1.htm

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Pronunciation Teaching: 11 quick multi-sensory techniques – Evolutions

Here’s an extremely interesting post on teaching pronunciation. Thanks as always to Tom Randolph for this.

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http://tomtesol.com/blog/2013/04/6-quick-pronunciation-techniques/

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Learning English – News English Extra – News Words: News jargon

Deutsch: Logo des Fernsehsenders BBC World News.

Here is a listening lesson from the BBC’s classic learning English website on the use of jargon in the news. Both the listening text and the worksheets are downloadable.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/newsextra/2010/03/100325_nw_news_jargon.shtml

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4 Benefits To Cloud-Based Learning

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http://www.teachthought.com/technology/4-benefits-to-cloud-based-learning/

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American Dialects : Dialect map of American English

My pet subject is linguistics, so I love reading about dialects and accents. Here’s a great resource on American dialects.

Dialect map of American English

http://robertspage.com/dialects.html

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Understanding personal learning networks: Their structure, content and the networking skills needed to optimally use them | Rajagopal | First Monday

This is a very thorough and useful article on personal learning networks.

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http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3559/3131

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The Flipped Classroom: Turning the Traditional Classroom on its Head

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A clear explanation of a very interesting phenomenon – the flipped classroom, a possible way of freeing up classroom time for more practical, communicative activities.

http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/

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Nik’s Daily English Activities: Learning Phrases and Phrasal Verbs

Here’s a way of motivating particularly teenage students and young adults to study phrasal verbs a little more, using two websites. As always, many thanks to Nik Peachey for sharing this activity.

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http://daily-english-activities.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/learning-phrases-and-phrasal-verbs.html

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Critical thinking questioning skills « elteachertrainer

One of the skills which as teachers we should be working hard to develop in our students is critical thinking (for a critical thinking lesson plan of mine, click here). In this article, John Hughes (elteachertrainer) explains how to develop questioning skills based on critical thinking in the classroom.

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http://elteachertrainer.com/2013/04/25/critical-thinking-questioning-skills/#like-1035

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Marisa Constantinides – TEFL Matters – Defragmenting Foreign Language Learning (TESOL Greece 2013)

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Here is a link to Marisa Constantinides’s report on her extremely interesting talk ‘Defragmenting foreign language learning’, given at TESOL Greece this year:

http://marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org/2013/03/24/defragmenting-foreign-language-learning-my-talk-at-tesol-greece-2013/