Oct 15 2010

Making the most of classrooms, they are real and we need them more than ever

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Miroslav Holub was a Czech poet and an immunologist who was born in Plzeň, Pilsen in German, home of the legendary Pils beer.  He died at the age of 75 on the anniversary of the French revolution, July 14th, in 1998.  In 1967 he appeared in a Penguin modern poets anthology and gained much acclaim [...]

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Feb 07 2010

Nagging doubts: Confessions of a teacher trainer. Ten things I don’t know or am not sure about any more in training teachers to teach English.

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1)      Passionate as I am about classrooms, I don’t know how good they are for language learning. Learning is essentially a private matter, although in classrooms all learning is meditated through the social context of the classroom. It may be that the social factors are so strong that the things we would like to happen [...]

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