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Is the teaching of English and English culture inextricably linked? Chia Suan Chong looks at the debate... 
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Our education system and those organizations that interact with it operate under a myth that we have proof is false but still teach because the myth is ingrained in our national consciousness. It...
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The Guardian Teacher Network has resources this week to help you whether you are teaching English as a foreign, second or additional language
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Owen Hatherley: Capitalism is altering our language – and Raymond Williams saw it coming more than 50 years ago
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Is the teaching of English and English culture inextricably linked? Chia Suan Chong looks at the debate...
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Questions about Language Learning? Ask Steve! http://t.co/9iSxHygfNt
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Children from low socioeconomic status which are raised bilingual have better cognitive skills than similar monolingual children, being more focused and better able to ignore distractions, all characteristic known to be crucial for the development of language, literacy and mathematics capabilities. Via Rukiya Cochu
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Learning a language should be fun - no matter how old you are... ...but of course teaching languages to children is very, very different from teaching adults.
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Great post by Juan Uribe about the silent period in very early language acquisition -- not always very quiet! http://t.co/MzjQpcOKH5
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Research has often shown that bilingual children produce their first word at about the same time as monolingual children, on average.
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How to get a tarantula off your southwest leg, or what Astérix has to do with religion and the Manhattan grid.
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This series is inspired by a conversation between Mike Hogan and myself about examining the controversies in ELT. We wanted to consider the different positions taken by different members of the ind...
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A word like 'Huh?'—used when one has not caught what someone just said—appears to be universal: it is found to have very similar form and function in languages across the globe. Via Wildcat2030
luiy's curator insight,
November 10, 2013 10:49 AM
It might seem frivolous to carry out scientific research on a word like 'Huh?' But in fact this little word is an indispensable tool in human communication. Without words like this we would be unable to signal when we have problems with hearing or understanding what was said, and our conversations would be constantly derailed by communicative mishaps. The research is part of a larger investigation of language and social interaction funded by the European Research Council. 
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November 17, 2013 12:47 PM
One of the oldest signals is pain. Aaaaaa and understanding aaaaaa. Ahaaa!! Hahahaha :)
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![The English Language Ain't What It Used To Be [SUNDAY COMIC] | committedtolanguage | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/OsoMM38YqJ4c549lCtpZuzl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
In this Sunday comic, Maria Scrivan illustrates how language has changed in the digital age.
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"Using a combination of lecture and experiential exercises, ESL education specialist Diane Larsen-Freeman traces the evolution of language teaching methods over the past 60 years, discussing how each evolutionary phase has contributed to a more "whole-person" view of language learners. Larsen-Freeman suggests that when educators treat language as a closed, static system, they create a critical barrier to student empowerment. When language is instead seen as the complex, dynamic system, teachers are able to help their students transform their linguistic world, not merely conform to it. Larsen-Freeman illustrates how this shift in understanding has implications for what and how teachers teach." Via Shona Whyte
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RT @newsycombinator: How does our language shape the way we think? (2009) http://t.co/AEqMwvfOIm
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Children are known for how much they love to play make believe, and StoryKid, an app introduced today during the Disrupt Hackathon in New York, takes this and gives it a new twist by offering a series of pictures as visual cues for a child to tell...
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One language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear, as communities abandon native tongues in favor of English, Mandarin, or Spanish.
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David Almond: Am a rita, and A kno the commin langwij cums from the hart an sole, and must neva be forgot
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Being bilingual makes you smarter and can have a profound effect on your brain.
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