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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International House conference, Barcelona
He looked suspiciously at everyone that got off the plane.
In this workshop, I wanted to demonstrate that drawing in the classroom is not just for children. About 30 teachers came along and as far as I know, everyone got artistically involved.

The cat will bite you if you pull her tail.
One of the […]

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Thanks to all those who came to my talk.
I promised that I would email some information to everyone that attended. I prefer electronic postouts to paper handouts since it saves the trees and also allows you to address any unanswered questions/points (it’s got nothing to do with being disorganised, I promise). The problem that I […]

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