(2017). Mobile reading as social and embodied practice. Classroom Discourse: Vol. 8, The social organisation of learning in classroom interaction and beyond, pp. 99-121.

Summary There have recently been a number of efforts to model language as a complex adaptive system. A few successful projects hav

Eloquent and influential, the Enlightenment philosopher’s most celebrated work embodies the English spirit and retains an enduring relevance

Does Spanish paramilitar have a different meaning than English paramilitary, or at least stronger negative connotations? This question has recently become the focus of reaction to a New Yorker article by Jon Lee Anderson, "The increasingly tense standoff over Catalonia's independence referendum", 10/4/2017. The first paragraph of Anderson's article (emphasis added): Voting rights have been […]

CiteThisForMe is a free online tool designed to help students prepare their whole bibliography or reference list using Harvard Referencing.

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Letters: Heaven preserve us from adverbials and those who want to introduce them into the curriculum

Metacognition, simply put, is the process of thinking about thinking. It is important in every aspect of school and life, since it involves self-reflection on one’s current position, future goals, potential actions and strategies, and results. At its core, it is a basic survival strategy, and has been shown to be present even in rats.

Perhaps the most important reason for developing metacognition is that it can improve the application of knowledge, skills, and character qualities in realms beyond the immediate context in which they were learned. This can result in the transfer of competencies across disciplines—important for students preparing for real-life situations where clear-cut divisions of disciplines fall away and one must select competencies from the entire gamut of their experience to effectively apply them to the challenges at hand. Even within academic settings, it is valuable—and often necessary—to apply principles and methods across disciplinary lines.

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A couple of days ago, in "Mistakes", I noted that
verbatim transcripts of spontaneous speech are often full of filled pauses, self-corrections, and other things that must be edited out in order to create what that commenter would count as a "coherent sentence". And this is true even for people who

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The performance measure stifles pupils by forcing them to take subjects they do not enjoy, according to NUT survey

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This textbook explores quantitative corpus linguistics, offering hands-on, step-by-step instructions to implement the techniques in the field.

Today we're adding MIT's course on Artificial Intelligence to our ever-growing collection, .

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Version 10.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available. For the first time, both the core specification and the data files are availabl

Matt Yglesias, "Trump’s latest big interview is both funny and terrifying", Vox 10/23/2017: Bartiromo is an extraordinarily soft interviewer who doesn’t ask Trump any difficult questions or press him on any subject. That makes the extent to which he manages to flub the interview all the more striking. He’s simply incapable of discussing any topic […]

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Only children under eight can learn a second language as well as their first, says Daniel Glaser

It's 2017. Communication is changing fast (my 7-yr old daughter and I just exchanged Snaps while I am in Chicago and she is outside of Philadelphia in different time zones, with real-time interaction). Collaboration has evolved to

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