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Evidence Based EFL: About
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Dedicated to looking at language and language teaching from an evidence-based viewpoint. If you want to see why I set up this blog then click here. There are numerous spelling mistakes and typos in this blog, -that's because it's a blog. Anyone who has any experience debunking legends or pseudoscience knows that the task is often an unappreciated one. People do not like to have their beliefs questioned or to have good stories spoiled.". David Wilton "Word Myths". Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Error correct...
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Evidence Based EFL: Jobs
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Dedicated to looking at language and language teaching from an evidence-based viewpoint. A page for those seeking mid-career ELT jobs. The good people at AusELT group tell me the best place to search for Aussie jobs is English Australia. This is a good site. For those seeking jobs in Ireland. University jobs can largely be found by searing the. Best to search for things like TESOL or applied lingusitics. A masters degree is likely to be be a minimum. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). DISCLAIMER : This is not a...
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Evidence Based EFL: Crystal Balls
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Dedicated to looking at language and language teaching from an evidence-based viewpoint. Sunday, 20 July 2014. About 2 years ago, before I first started this blog I was feeling a little disillusioned with EFL. I remember coming across an article by Michael Swan. In my recent talk I made reference to an article in. Pleased that the author has allowed me to reproduce it here. I hope you get as much pleasure from reading it as I did. Has this got anything to do with language teaching? If, say, I read a flat...
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Evidence Based EFL: Book Reviews
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Dedicated to looking at language and language teaching from an evidence-based viewpoint. Bad education and teacher proof. Approaches and Methods 2014 update. Intercultural Language Activities: book review. How to write badly. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Glossary of Misused or badly defined terms. Logical fallacies, biases and heuristics. Talks, interviews, other posts etc,. Good things to read and listen to. Linguistic myth #2 Swearing shows a lack of intelligence, morals and a limited vocabulary. I knew...
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Evidence Based EFL: Linguistics myths series
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Dedicated to looking at language and language teaching from an evidence-based viewpoint. Collection of linguistics/language posts. 1 Swearing shows limited vocabulary. 2 Literally is being misused. 3 Does Chinese have many dialects. 4 Foreign words should retain their pronunciation/grammar. 5 Chinese myth ". 6 Death to "whom". 7 I couldn't care fewer(less? 7 Don't use double negatives. 8 Pronounce things properly dammit. 9 English is in decline. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). MA TESOL /app ling or DELTA?
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Evidence Based EFL: Guest posts
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Dedicated to looking at language and language teaching from an evidence-based viewpoint. Simon Andrewes The lamentable gulf between theory and practice. Philip Kerr left brains and right brains in English language teaching. Mike Swan Crystal Balls. Richard Pinner What we talk about when we talk about authenticity. Carol Lethaby Do women and men process language differently? Is it neuroscience or neurosexism? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Glossary of Misused or badly defined terms. Try this it works! This a...
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Evidence Based EFL: February 2015
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Dedicated to looking at language and language teaching from an evidence-based viewpoint. Monday, 9 February 2015. What we talk about when we talk about Authenticity. While listening to the. I happened to hear a discussion on authenticity with guest Richard Pinner. I don't know Richard but I liked what he had to say. I asked him if he'd consider doing a guest post and he agreed! The result is the rather excellent post below. :). For most language teachers, the word authentic. Is part of our daily vocabula...
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Evidence Based EFL: MA TESOL /app ling or DELTA? Which to do?
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Dedicated to looking at language and language teaching from an evidence-based viewpoint. Saturday, 23 June 2012. MA TESOL /app ling or DELTA? This is not a piece based on evidence but just personal experience. If you feel there are any factual inaccuracies then please let me know and I'll change them. I recently got an email asking which of these is a better option for an EFL teacher. This is fairly straight forward. Is a 2 month course (with 1 month to write the essay for module 3) and most UK based MA.
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Evidence Based EFL: Good things to read and listen to
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Dedicated to looking at language and language teaching from an evidence-based viewpoint. Good things to read and listen to. How We Know What isn't So: Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life. Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Hurtful Acts. The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuition Deceives Us. The Halo Effect: How Managers Let Themselves Be Deceived. Willpower: Rediscovering Our Greatest Strength. By Roy F. Baumeister. You are not so smart.
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Evidence Based EFL: 'Greatest hits'
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Dedicated to looking at language and language teaching from an evidence-based viewpoint. These are the most popular posts on this blog to date:. 1 MA or DELTA? 2 is guessing from context a load of XXXXX? 3 Skimming and scanning. 4 Learning styles: facts and fictions. 5 How to create your own TEFL method. However these are some of my favourites. 1 The importance of evidence part 1. 3 It's a man's world. 4 Can horses do maths. 5 Cargo cult science. 6 The least worst solution. 8 Fantastic Dr. Fox. This arti...
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