Day: April 26, 2013

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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