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Here you will find odd notes related to language teaching.

I blog over at EFL Notes but getting fed up of Wordpress interface.

So using this space occasionaly. You can contact me on Mastodon scholar.

Re-reversing priorities in language teaching

Lexical selection

Translanguaging

Whitewashing writing

Assumption of progress in language teaching

Language is both arbitrary and non-arbitrary

Why implicit knowledge?

Lisa Delpit and E.D. Hirsch

Language as a tool

Native-speakerism and Hegel

Abstraction and schema

Certainty and the threat of scepticisim

Lingua Franca Ideologies

A bug not a feature, ok boomer

So long and thanks for all the loanwords

Comments on "A Historic webinar with Chomsky and Krashen: Modern Linguistics" video

Reflexivity

Geary and the orthodox view of writing/reading

Nelson Flores and language architecture

Scriptism and language in schools

Acquisition and development

Myths

Focusing and proto-standards

Wages, salaire and Marx

Stochastic collocational reading of "the truth and reconciliation commission"

Commenting on how people sound and the intermediate theory of consciousness

Changing names, making a difference

Words in the mind

The ghost of Integrationism at #BAAL2022

Post-humanist nods at #BAAL2022

More Marx

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