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		<title>an interview with phil benson</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/12/28/an-interview-with-phil-benson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met with Phil Benson at the JALT national conference in Tokyo, Japan at the end of November 2011. He had just given an excellent plenary entitled Autonomy in Language Teaching and Learning: How to Do it “Here”, &#8216;Here&#8217; being wherever you are&#8230;.acknowledging the commonly heard complaint levelled at promoters of Learner Autonomy &#8211; &#8220;Yes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>realizing autonomy conference update</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/10/07/realizing-autonomy-conference-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With only three weeks to go, the excitement is rising for the Realizing Autonomy conference to be held at Nanzan University in Nagoya on October 29th. The website for the conference (and the accompanying book) is constantly evolving, so keep your eyes on it. Part of the reason I am writing here today is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Realizing Autonomy &#8211; the book and the conference</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/07/03/realizing-autonomy-the-book-and-the-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/07/03/realizing-autonomy-the-book-and-the-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 22:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just searching through my inbox, it was way back in November 2008 that I received the call for papers sent to all members of the Learner Development SIG of JALT (The Japan Association for Language Teachers). They had just gotten the go ahead to put together another book in their series of edited collections, and were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>on standardisation</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/01/26/on-standardisation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/01/26/on-standardisation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;..standardisation is a reasonable way of maintaining minimal standards, not the best way of ensuring the highest possible ones. Establishing minimally acceptable standards and imposing them on everybody, even on those who can exceed them, can create a powerful but stultifying myth about what constitutes &#8216;good&#8217; teaching. Creativity in teaching is then stifled in favour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>metaphorical images of learner autonomy</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/10/09/metaphorical-images-of-learner-autonomy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/10/09/metaphorical-images-of-learner-autonomy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 04:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learner autonomy may have an established tradition in language learning, dating back to the 1960’s and beyond, but what, actually, is it? Is it a social, political or philosophical standpoint, or merely a methodological choice? Can it be implemented in the same way regardless of context? Should it be collaborative, or individual? I want you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a class with no teacher part two &#8211; feedback and reflection</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/06/04/a-class-with-no-teacher-part-two-feedback-and-reflection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/06/04/a-class-with-no-teacher-part-two-feedback-and-reflection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a week ago I wrote about an experiment in silence with a class, and promised to come back with a report on the students&#8217; reactions. It really was quite enlightening. This is what we all learnt. 1. A particular result may not mean what you think it means Looking back through the many comments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>an interview with hayo reinders (podcast)</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/05/11/an-interview-with-hayo-reinders-podcast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/05/11/an-interview-with-hayo-reinders-podcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 05:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download Here This is the audio version of my video interview with Hayo earlier this year. I’m by no means a gamer*, but I was fascinated to hear Hayo address the question ‘Do computer games really contribute to language learning?’ as keynote speaker at the 4th International Wireless Ready Symposium in Nagoya, Japan. The answer? They can, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>an interview with hayo reinders (computer games and language learning)</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/02/23/an-interview-with-hayo-reinders-computer-games-and-language-learning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/02/23/an-interview-with-hayo-reinders-computer-games-and-language-learning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Interview With Hayo Reinders from darren elliott on Vimeo. I&#8217;m by no means a gamer*, but I was fascinated to hear Hayo address the question &#8216;Do computer games really contribute to language learning?&#8217; as keynote speaker at the 4th International Wireless Ready Symposium in Nagoya, Japan. The answer? They can, but&#8230;.. I meant to ask [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a gift from a flower to a garden＊</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/11/07/a-gift-from-a-flower-to-a-garden%ef%bc%8a/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/11/07/a-gift-from-a-flower-to-a-garden%ef%bc%8a/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[classroom practice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[＊extra points if you can place the title I am a sucker for an analogy. Only this week I got contorted in a lengthy comparison of the plight of Southampton Football Club, starting the season on minus ten points but now powering up the third division, to a student who had missed the first few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what does it mean to know a word?</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/10/10/what-does-it-mean-to-know-a-word/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/10/10/what-does-it-mean-to-know-a-word/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Diane Schmitt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extensive reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jo Moir]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A vocabulary test in which the students merely have to vomit the words onto the page, and once purged walk away fresh with no memory of the incident, is no good to anyone. How can we ensure our students LEARN words, rather than just REMEMBER them. Learner Autonomy &#8211; Are students more likely to learn [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>blogging on blogging</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/09/19/blogging-on-blogging/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/09/19/blogging-on-blogging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[learner autonomy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems somewhat solipsistic to write my first post about other blogs I&#8217;ve kept, but I suppose to some extent all blogs are exercises in solopsism, so here goes nothing&#8230;. My first blog was an attempt to set up an online teacher development group. I tried far too hard with all the wrong things (using [...]]]></description>
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