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		<title>an interview with miles craven</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Interview with Miles Craven from darren elliott on Vimeo. I first saw Miles speak a couple of years ago at another JALT event, and at the time was very impressed with his fair but candid assessment of writing and publishing in ELT. When I started this series he was one of the people I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>culture and reading skills &#8211; can (should) we teach both?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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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>six free online journals for language / technology oriented educators</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t set out to rip off Lindsay Clandfield&#8217;s excellent blog gimmick, but it turned out that the number of free online journals I like is six! First up is elearn magazine, collecting papers on learning with technology (mainly) for educators in tertiary education. The journal has been going for a few years now, and still has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what does it mean to know a word?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Diane Schmitt]]></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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		<title>freedom to read (?)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Extensive reading &#8211;  reading for pleasure, reading widely, reading what one wants to read, reading at one&#8217;s current level of attainment. Does it actually work? You&#8217;ll be waiting a long time if you want conclusive proof of anything to do with learning languages, but the general consensus seems to be that it is a pretty [...]]]></description>
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