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		<title>an interview with scott thornbury</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Interview with Scott Thornbury from darren elliott on Vimeo. Scott was giving a plenary at the Japan Association of Language Teachers national conference in Shizuoka this weekend, as well as a couple of presentations, but was kind enough to spare me half an hour or so for a chat. We talked a grammar, Vygotsky [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what does it mean to know a word?</title>
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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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		<title>do androids dream of electric test papers?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this article recently, about artificially intelligent marking machines. Whilst not as terrifying as the corpse-eating battlebots which have also been in the news, my initial reaction was still one of distaste. But the more I thought about it, the more ambivalent I became. People like tests. Students like to have a piece [...]]]></description>
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