Understanding another involves empathy, which requires the kind of similarity that we just do not have with lions, and that many people do not have with other human beings.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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New article by James Thomas just published here on the website. If you would like to comment on the article, do see here on the blog page. Looking forward to your comments.
James The Reluctant TeacherThis extract from the Introduction to Out of Your Seats addresses some of the issues that cause language teachers' reluctance to engage in drama activities. |
Susan Hillyard and Eugenia Dell'Osa have chosen such great travel reading that they want to share it with the world. Can't blame them really. :-) They were flying Buenos Aires to Bolivia, I believe. Thanks for your support, Susan and Eugenia. |
Syllabus Stress Table
Task-based pronunciation teaching
Given that English word stress is a problem without a systematic solution, the Syllable Stress Table is an activity that focusses students' ears on the number of syllables in words, and then which of them is stressed. I have found that once students know this about a word and know that this is worth focussing on, they have more confidence in their pronunciation and they have a system for developing this aspect of English pronunciation.
From a 2000 word review published last year in the Journal of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, come these snippets: This book demystifies the corpus approach to language teaching and shows that corpus software is no magic wand, but a useful tool to obtain language information that was hitherto almost inaccessible. Written by Maria Kunilovskaya and Marina Koviazina in the Department of Philology and Journalism University of Tyumen, Russia. To read the whole review, click on the Journal of Linguistics, and search for 'sketch'. |
It's the 9th Sept 2016. This is the end of my second week of my post-university life. The intention to finish some books to add to the Versatile catalogue is not going quite as planned. Unfortunately, I've become very involved in my Prepositions Project, which is starting from scratch. I should be finishing things that are much closer to completion.
In this time, I've also remade the Versatile site and launched it on 7th inst. This is Versatile's first ever blog posting.
And I wrote a page in my old site about comparing synonyms using corpus data:
http://bit.ly/sketch_diff_respond_answer
And there has been a huge swap-over of books. I had borrowed many books from the university libraries and my office was full of my own books. I'd say we're about even now!
And to celebrate the new life, I bought myself a proper iMac, which is far more adorable than I'd expected. How on earth did I write several whole books on my MacBook Air, which btw is sitting diminished to the left of the iMac. But it has been a very faithful companion for four years.
In this time, I've also remade the Versatile site and launched it on 7th inst. This is Versatile's first ever blog posting.
And I wrote a page in my old site about comparing synonyms using corpus data:
http://bit.ly/sketch_diff_respond_answer
And there has been a huge swap-over of books. I had borrowed many books from the university libraries and my office was full of my own books. I'd say we're about even now!
And to celebrate the new life, I bought myself a proper iMac, which is far more adorable than I'd expected. How on earth did I write several whole books on my MacBook Air, which btw is sitting diminished to the left of the iMac. But it has been a very faithful companion for four years.
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