My pet subject is linguistics, so I love reading about dialects and accents. Here’s a great resource on American dialects.
Day: April 26, 2013
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.
http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3559/3131
The Flipped Classroom: Turning the Traditional Classroom on its Head
A clear explanation of a very interesting phenomenon – the flipped classroom, a possible way of freeing up classroom time for more practical, communicative activities.
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.
http://daily-english-activities.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/learning-phrases-and-phrasal-verbs.html
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