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Specific English: All change ...
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For teachers of English for Specific Purposes. Tuesday, 13 July 2010. Well, so much for 'Good to be back! No sooner had I promised to be a good blogger from now on than I found myself even deeper in deadlines than before. So sorry especially to thise of you who commented during my latest absence. I promise I will respond . as soon as I get through my latest deadlines. Anyway, I've called this post 'All change', because I've gone and got myself a new job. I'm now an editor for English 360. Is out this wee...
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the BEonomics blog: February 2012
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A blog about service design, behavioural economics, and teaching in Business English. Monday, 27 February 2012. Lethe and lesson management. You are what you remember, not what you experience. At least according to Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Laureate and author of last years outstanding book - Thinking, Fast and Slow. This partly came to light when he conducted a study on people undergoing colonoscopies. The first group underwent shorter procedures, and the second group longer ones. Links to this post. This ...
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the BEonomics blog: October 2011
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A blog about service design, behavioural economics, and teaching in Business English. Monday, 31 October 2011. O, and improving fluency. Needs analyses often seem to end with an addendum: O, and I want to improve my fluency. Whatever the main objectives might be - report writing, doing negotiations, meetings - there always seems to be a demand for speaking better generally. Its not so much the icing on the cake as the wish for a completely different dessert in the first place. Links to this post. Its a l...
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the BEonomics blog: November 2011
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A blog about service design, behavioural economics, and teaching in Business English. Monday, 28 November 2011. Stephen Fry once outlined one of the golden rules of newspaper column writing. He averred that you are allowed to write about writing your column, but only once. More than once was tantamount to self-indulgence. Im sure this is good advice for columnists, and it may even be so for bloggers too. This, then, is my once - at least for this year. Links to this post. Monday, 21 November 2011. All of...
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the BEonomics blog: Enclothed cognition
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A blog about service design, behavioural economics, and teaching in Business English. Monday, 12 March 2012. The effects of the environment on test-takers appear to be manifold. I have written before about the difference the colour red. Can make to a learner's levels of accuracy. It now appears that not only is colour important to levels of success, along with room size, but also the type of clothing a test-taker wears. This raises many interesting questions. Certainly it suggests that anyone taking a te...
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the BEonomics blog: April 2012
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A blog about service design, behavioural economics, and teaching in Business English. Monday, 2 April 2012. One of the things I have learned from teaching so many business people is the importance of prioritising. A dispersed focus is no focus at all. With that in mind, I have recently embarked upon a training course that I intend to devote my free time to, and, as such, I think it is unwise to continue writing this blog at the same time. However, I will hopefully return to it in the autumn. If so, what ...
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the BEonomics blog: The past perfect
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A blog about service design, behavioural economics, and teaching in Business English. Monday, 13 February 2012. Which of the verb forms is the least useful? This may sound like a strange question, but there is a sense with ESP generally, and BE specifically, that language must submit to calculations of utility and expediency. If you teach IELTS. For example, reported speech is a luxury item but the passive is essential. In his seminal book The English Verb. In a world of sleek iPods. I have to admit that...
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the BEonomics blog: Lethe and lesson management
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A blog about service design, behavioural economics, and teaching in Business English. Monday, 27 February 2012. Lethe and lesson management. You are what you remember, not what you experience. At least according to Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Laureate and author of last year's outstanding book - Thinking, Fast and Slow. This partly came to light when he conducted a study on people undergoing colonoscopies. The first group underwent shorter procedures, and the second group longer ones. Indeed, while the second...
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the BEonomics blog: BEonomics
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A blog about service design, behavioural economics, and teaching in Business English. Is the name I made up for this blog. BE. For those that don't know,. Comes from the commonly-used acronym for Business English. As the etymology of - nomics. Meaning to manage,. Whether it yields much in the way of fruitful insights is yet to be seen; however, I think that some form of ongoing self-analysis is one of the cornerstones upon which professionalism is usually built so I hope that at least occasionally it wil...
