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Highly recommended ELT Blogs

Highly recommended ELT Blogs | About learning ... always | Scoop.it
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VOICE - VOICE is available

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Vocabulary Profiler

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CORPORA: 1.9 billion - 45 million words each: free online access

CORPORA: 1.9 billion - 45 million words each: free online access | About learning ... always | Scoop.it
English (US, UK, Can, Global), Spanish, Portuguese, and Google Books. Search by PoS, collocates, synonyms, genre, dialect, historical, etc. Downloadable data also.
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JustTheWord

Just The Word collocations - helps you in writing English
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5 Tips on How to Maximize Proofreaders Performance and Productivity

Therefore, proofreaders need to extremely careful while checking the figures, and make sure that the numbers are all correct.
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The 100 Best (And Free) Online Learning Tools - Edudemic

These sites offer a place for educators to find open educational resources as well as provide a place for those who want to share their ideas or work collaboratively on projects.
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Singular 'They': a Footnote

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What makes good education?

Our education system is heavily and unnecessarily exam-oriented, observes Vatsala Vedantam
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Fun with Homophones

Last week we spoke about a curious group of words known as heteronyms: words that are spelled the same as each other, but which are pronounced differently.
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C is for (COCA) Corpus

A recent ELT Chat on using corpora suggested that what might be helpful for teachers coming to online corpora (such as COCA- the Corpus of Contemporary American English) for the first time would be...
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The ESL Times: Colour idioms

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Narrable

Give voice to the stories that matter.
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Feature: My worst student

Somewhere, in a class past or future, your nemesis awaits. John Kaag on the existential terror of a pedagogical puzzle
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Concordle - Not so pretty cousin of Wordle

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StringNet Navigator 3.0

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Netspeak

Netspeak helps you improve your writing. It is a new kind of
dictionary which contains billions of phrases and how
commonly they are used.
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All writing, not just cursive, is individual

Re: Schools saying goodbye to cursive writing, by Brian Cross, May 13. Handwriting matters — but does cursive matter? The fastest, clearest...
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Global Glossary

Search 14,725,957 words in 118 languages
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20 obsolete English words that should make a comeback

Calling all English speakers! These words are so cool they deserve to be reinstated to everyday use.
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Spit That Image Out

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Handwriting is a fine skill

Handwriting is a fine skill | About learning ... always | Scoop.it
Often, handwriting is seen as an aesthetic element of writing. But handwriting has more to it than just aesthetics, writes
Shivananda Nayak
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Helping Students Communicate Effectively

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Creativity and color in academic ELF

I was recently addressing some common folk linguistic myths about English, especially the English used as a lingua franca (ELF) between its non-native speakers. One of these myths concerns "color",...
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180 Journal Writing Prompts: Enough for Every Day of the School Year

Journal Writing Prompts: These high-interest prompts will encourage kids to describe, explain, persuade, and narrate every day of the school year.
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Tools for Teaching: Developing Active Readers

Adults forget all that they do while reading. We are predicting, making connections, contextualizing, critiquing, and already plotting how we might use any new insights or information. Yep, we do
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