“There are many things to love about this post by Luís Guerra: it is informative; it has depth and breadth in scope; it brings together several important issues about the English language in our current times in a concise and …
“Fundamentally, this guest post by Elaine Hodgson is about concepts – and concepts matter for several reasons. They matter because they make us think about what we do, about why we do what we do the way we do and …
21 March 2021 was Census Day in England and Wales. By that date every English and Welsh household had received a unique code and we were asked to go to the census site, enter the code, and answer some questions. …
“While I read the first draft of this post I kept telling myself, ‘I love this’, ‘This is fantastic’, ‘I need to try this’. Dr. Gabriella Buttarazzi does a fantastic job in explaining why sustained attention is key when we …
“I’m thrilled to have another guest post by Lynda O’Brien here. This post is a sequel to her previous one: Is written feedback a waste of time? University students say they read it, their lecturers think they don’t. You can …
“É com muita satisfação que apresento meu convidado de hoje. Um homem que muito aprendeu e muito ensinou na vida. E que nunca parou de aprender. Depois de se aposentar, foi às pesquisas genealógicas da família e produziu um livro …
Please don’t get me wrong. COVID-19 is one of the most important things (if not the most important one) happening to all of us at the moment. It’s changed our routines, our work, our relationships and our expectations about the …
“When it comes to feedback in academic writing, Lynda O’Brien knows it all. Looking back on my ex-students and on how they handled feedback, I can say with certainty that Lynda’s response to feedback always stood out in its skill, …
The inspiration for this post comes from a walk I had the other day. It also comes from some thoughts about online classes that have been disturbing me recently. But let me explain each of these inspiration sources in turn. …
Esta postagem é a terceira e última de uma série de respostas que ficaram devidas (ou devidas devidamente) durante uma live de que participei recentemente. Na primeira postagem-resposta, eu escrevi sobre o peso dado a cada habilidade linguística na produção …