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Community Music as an allegory for Critical ELT
Critical mass (noun) Definition 1. point of change: a point or situation at which change occurs “In the end everyone on this planet is an immigrant in some way or the other, everyone.” (quote from...
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(Critical) Language Research: A Waste of Time?
Critical mass (noun) Definition 1. point of change: a point or situation at which change occurs A bit of a gap I had said to myself, and to others recently, that I wouldn’t be writing anything for a...
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Thinking critically about which English you teach
Critical mass (noun) Definition 1. point of change: a point or situation at which change occurs It’s time to move on from the theft experience last week. I thank everyone for their support and am now...
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Being Critical about the Role of the Teacher: Allowing Students to Disagree
Critical mass (noun) Definition 1. point of change: a point or situation at which change occurs “You can’t just lump things into two categories, life’s not that simple” (Donnie Darko) New week – new...
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Is grading ever fair? Being critical about marking student work
Critical mass (noun) Definition 1. point of change: a point or situation at which change occurs “This morning I took out a comma, and this afternoon I put it back again.” Oscar Wilde, Irish Poet and...
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Critical DOGME or DOGME with Sympathy for the Critical?
The Background Back in June 2009, Scott Thornbury wrote a post on the British Council blog called “DOGME: Nothing if not critical”. A long discussion took place between Scott, myself, Diarmuid Fogarty...
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It’s all in the accent: Being critical about how you teach pronunciation
Whatever other speech you grow into….your dialect stays alive in a sort of inner freedom, a separate little self Ted Hughes, Poet, cited in Corcoran 1993:114 *this blog post is based on an article...
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Welcoming Difference: Being critical about why we blog.
Our reasons for blogging are as diverse as we are Critical mass (noun) Definition 1. point of change: a point or situation at which change occurs Hello Again! It’s been a long time since I visited my...
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