Thanks to everyone who came along to the Oxford University Press event in Cardiff last week where I was presenting a few ideas from my new book: Images. I shared the session with two other writers from the series - Hans Mols and Ken Wilson.

Me (’Creative ideas using images’)

Hans Mols (’Creative ideas for teaching grammar […]

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On the way back from the Andalucian capital, my friend Daniel Barber (that’s Barber of of Cádiz, not Seville) informed me that the university building that the conference took place in used to be a cigarette factory (la Real Fábrica de Tabacos).
So I found this 1915 painting by local artist Gonzalo Bilbao Martínez and it […]

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I enjoyed presenting at The Language Show in London this weekend. I would like to say thank you to everyone that came along. As promised, I am uploading my article on Learner-friendly corpora here:
learner-friendly-corpora.pdf

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From flashcards to flash images is the title of a talk I gave recently at the 3rd International Symposium and Conference on ELT Materials (link here). I would like to say thank you very much to everyone involved, especially Sujatha, Jayakaran and the people from Pearson, for organising a great conference and of course, for […]

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This was the title of a presentation I gave at TESOL-Spain in San Sebastian last year and I have just received an email from a teacher (hello Abbie) asking for information on it.
Content and Language Integrated Learning refers to the approach of teaching curricular subjects (history, science, art, etc) and a foreign language at the […]

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TESOL-Spain 31st Annual Convention, Madrid
A big thank you to everyone who came to my workshop on Sunday. I really didn’t expect to see so many people since David Crystal (who did a great plenary) was giving a talk at the same time.
In the workshop we saw 2 different ways in which we can get students […]

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