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		<title>an interview with ken wilson</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/11/26/an-interview-with-ken-wilson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was very happy to finally meet Ken Wilson, at the JALT conference in Tokyo last week. Ken gave several presentations, including a fantastic closing plenary. I&#8217;ve seen him speak before, and I can&#8217;t stress this enough &#8211; if you get a chance, get to one of his talks! His theme this time around was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a fresh start</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/04/03/a-fresh-start/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 22:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took this photo last week, as I do every year. I&#8217;m not a nature photographer, and I though I love living here I wouldn&#8217;t call myself a Japanophile, but there is something about an early blossoming sakura tree&#8230;. The hanami celebrations have been muted this year, and many people in Northern Japan will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the new chernobyl? &#8211; media literacy in action</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/03/20/the-new-chernobyl-media-literacy-in-action/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/03/20/the-new-chernobyl-media-literacy-in-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 08:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[*IMPORTANT* Above all else, there are a huge number of people in Northern Japan who are going to need our help in the coming days, weeks, months, and (dare I say it) years. If you would like to help, from in or outside Japan, there are a number of ways you can do so. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the lure of mediocrity (six minutes and forty seconds)</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/02/08/the-lure-of-mediocrity-six-minutes-and-forty-seconds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/02/08/the-lure-of-mediocrity-six-minutes-and-forty-seconds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[pecha kucha]]></category>
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		<title>&#8220;bona to vada your dolly old eek&#8221; (language and identity)</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/10/15/bona-to-vada-your-dolly-old-eek-language-and-identity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/10/15/bona-to-vada-your-dolly-old-eek-language-and-identity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 05:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether it qualifies as a fully fledged language is very doubtful. It may be a lexicon, but that doesn&#8217;t really give it the full sense of social gravitas it deserves. It&#8217;s not really a dialect, a pidgin or a creole. To call it a jargon would imply that it was a technical or professional form, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>an interview with kip cates &#8211; global education and language teaching</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/05/27/an-interview-with-kip-cates-global-education-and-language-teaching/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/05/27/an-interview-with-kip-cates-global-education-and-language-teaching/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 20:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[download here an interview with kip cates from darren elliott on Vimeo. Kip Cates is an English teacher based in Japan but with an interest in collaborating with teachers and learners across Asia and the rest of the world. Just over twenty years ago, he founded the Global Issues in Language Education (GILE) SIG in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>an interview with barbara hoskins-sakamoto (podcast)</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/05/03/an-interview-with-barbara-hoskins-sakamoto-podcast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/05/03/an-interview-with-barbara-hoskins-sakamoto-podcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 14:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download here This is a podcast version of the video interview available here. If you have ever taught children, you may well have come across the ‘Let’s Go!‘ series, now on the third edition and a multimedia behemoth! I met with Barbara, one of the authors, at the ETJ Chubu Expo in October 2009 and she was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ten blogs</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/04/29/ten-blogs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/04/29/ten-blogs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got tagged by Jason at the wonderful English Raven as a part of the &#8220;It&#8217;s worth taking a look at this blog&#8221;  thing which is doing the rounds. It&#8217;s quite a timely initiative, with the ELT blogosphere a little bit tired and emotional recently. Nice to share the love again. Had I decided to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Soon&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/04/27/coming-soon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/04/27/coming-soon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have three interviews scheduled for next month, and I am inviting questions. The first interview is at the PanSig conference in Osaka, with Kip Cates. Kip has been active in promoting global issues in language education for many years, and I am looking forward to talking about his work with the Asian Youth Forum, JALT, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>metaphors for teaching &#8211; the teacher as geisha</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/04/23/metaphors-for-teaching-the-teacher-as-geisha/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/04/23/metaphors-for-teaching-the-teacher-as-geisha/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a classic symbol of Japan, and a dying breed, the geisha is a skilled practitioner of her art. She is elegant, highly trained. Unfortunately, this is not the parallel I am going to draw between &#8216;Geisha&#8217; and &#8216;Teacher&#8217;. Let&#8217;s skip ahead to the modern era. There are now said to be about 2000 professional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>which english? why your opinion is irrelevant</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/12/18/which-english-why-your-opinion-is-irrelevant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/12/18/which-english-why-your-opinion-is-irrelevant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wife and children abed, the teacher was scratching his way through a stack of conversation transcriptions that his students had handed in earlier that day. &#8220;Hi, how are you&#8221; began one. &#8220;So-so&#8221; was the reply. The teacher lifted his pen to strike through the unnatural phrase in blood red ink &#8211; after all, don&#8217;t we native [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I want you to express your opinions freely (as long as they are the same as mine)&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/12/16/i-want-you-to-express-your-opinions-freely-as-long-as-they-are-the-same-as-mine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/12/16/i-want-you-to-express-your-opinions-freely-as-long-as-they-are-the-same-as-mine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or &#8220;cultural diversity is a wonderful thing (within the framework of western liberal democracy)&#8221; Sara Hannam has just contributed yet another excellent post to the blogosphere, prompted by a horrific bit of teaching in the movie &#8216;Donnie Darko&#8217;. In this case, the teacher stifles the expression of a bright young man by sticking to her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>culture and reading skills &#8211; can (should) we teach both?</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/11/14/culture-and-reading-skills-can-should-we-teach-both/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/11/14/culture-and-reading-skills-can-should-we-teach-both/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post I mentioned an article I had read on &#8216;nativised&#8217; reading materials &#8211; readings which are adapted to include local (and familiar) names, places and foods (for example) whilst retaining the vocabulary and grammar structures of the original. In the article, the researchers took a story based in New York and transplanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>urban legends and critical thinking</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/10/31/urban-legends-and-critical-thinking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/10/31/urban-legends-and-critical-thinking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Did you hear about that boy on the other side of town? No? Apparently, he was walking home from school quite late, it was getting dark, when he saw this woman standing on the corner. She was wearing a mask, you know, like she had a cold. As he walked past she was staring at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>responsible racism &#8211; a guide for teachers</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/10/08/responsible-racism-a-guide-for-teachers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/10/08/responsible-racism-a-guide-for-teachers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would be crass and unfair to claim that &#8220;We are all racists&#8221;. But I do believe that we are all capable of making decisions based on our preconceptions of other peoples ethnicity or cultural background. Isn&#8217;t that just the same thing with a few five-dollar words thrown in? I&#8217;m not sure. Is there a [...]]]></description>
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