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In his latest guest post on this blog, Dave Cosby thinks about variety being the spice of life and wonders whether taking a CLIL approach to language teaching might not be more motivating for all concerned.  After all, what's the worst... Continue Reading →

There's an interesting post on "Visualising English Word Origins" from Ideas Illustrated, which colour codes words according to their origins and then uses this process to analyse texts. If you scroll down through the comments section, you'll find links to... Continue Reading →

Huge apologies to everyone who came to my session at the APPI conference on 29th April - this post contains the material and links I promised you that Sunday morning.  In hindsight, I probably should have posted it up there... Continue Reading →

A late session choice after I realising I was in the wrong room and the one I'd planned to see was full... Claudia Ferradas - The certainty of uncertainty: meeting the challenge of change Apparently we're going to start with... Continue Reading →

This blog post reports from the APPI 2012 conference in Coimbra, Portugal.  The theme of the conference is “Motivated Teachers make a difference” – I’m updating as I go, so apologies for any typos, I’ll try and clear those up... Continue Reading →

This blog post reports from the APPI 2012 conference in Coimbra, Portugal.  The theme of the conference is “Motivated Teachers make a difference” – I’m updating as I go, so apologies for any typos, I’ll try and clear those up... Continue Reading →

Infographics are everywhere at the moment, which personally speaking I'm quite glad of as it makes looking at statistics a lot easier and a lot more fun, though there is always the mantra to remember when looking at these things:... Continue Reading →