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date: '2026-10-30'
description: 'Welcome 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…'
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# Welcome

Here you will find odd notes related to language teaching.

I blog over at [EFL Notes](https://eflnotes.wordpress.com) but getting fed up of Wordpress interface.

So using this space occasionaly. You can contact me on [Mastodon scholar](https://scholar.social/@muranava).

[Re-reversing priorities in language teaching](https://rethunk.englishup.me/priorities)

[Lexical selection](https://rethunk.englishup.me/lexical-selection)

[Translanguaging](https://rethunk.englishup.me/translanguaging)

[Whitewashing writing](https://rethunk.englishup.me/writing-whitewashed)

[Assumption of progress in language teaching](https://rethunk.englishup.me/progress)

[Language is both arbitrary and non-arbitrary](https://rethunk.englishup.me/arbitrary)

[Why implicit knowledge?](https://rethunk.englishup.me/implicit)

[Lisa Delpit and E.D. Hirsch](https://rethunk.englishup.me/delpit-hirsch)

[Language as a tool](https://rethunk.englishup.me/instrumentalism)

[Native-speakerism and Hegel](https://rethunk.englishup.me/hegel)

[Abstraction and schema](https://rethunk.englishup.me/abstraction-schema)

[Certainty and the threat of scepticisim](https://rethunk.englishup.me/certainty)

[Lingua Franca Ideologies](https://rethunk.englishup.me/linguafranca)

[A bug not a feature, ok boomer](https://rethunk.englishup.me/okboomer)

[So long and thanks for all the loanwords](https://rethunk.englishup.me/so-long)

[Comments on "A Historic webinar with Chomsky and Krashen: Modern Linguistics" video](https://rethunk.englishup.me/krashen)

[Reflexivity](https://rethunk.englishup.me/reflexivity)

[Geary and the orthodox view of writing/reading](https://rethunk.englishup.me/geary-default)

[Nelson Flores and language architecture](https://rethunk.englishup.me/circularity)

[Scriptism and language in schools](https://rethunk.englishup.me/scriptism)

[Acquisition and development](https://rethunk.englishup.me/acquisition-development)

[Myths](https://rethunk.englishup.me/myths)

[Focusing and proto-standards](https://rethunk.englishup.me/focusing)

[Wages, salaire and Marx](https://rethunk.englishup.me/wages)

[Stochastic collocational reading of "the truth and reconciliation commission"](https://rethunk.englishup.me/collocational-reading)

[Commenting on how people sound and the intermediate theory of consciousness](https://rethunk.englishup.me/intermediate-consciousness)

[Changing names, making a difference](https://rethunk.englishup.me/names)

[Words in the mind](https://rethunk.englishup.me/word)

[The ghost of Integrationism at #BAAL2022](https://rethunk.englishup.me/ghost-of-integrationism)

[Post-humanist nods at #BAAL2022](https://rethunk.englishup.me/post-humanism)

[More Marx](https://rethunk.englishup.me/more-marx)

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