Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog
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literature
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Showing posts with label
literature
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Sunday, 18 May 2025
Making writers sexy and appealing - Part 1 (author's intent)
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'We conclude that children appear to prioritise efficiency over completeness when reading, generating inferences spontaneously only when...
Sunday, 28 January 2024
A question of tone and not techniques
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In the time I have been teaching, I have seen the teaching of English compartmentalised in so many different ways. And, dear reader, you can...
Sunday, 15 October 2023
It’s all ‘bout that quote, ‘bout that quote, no ideas!
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Quotation learning is a poor proxy for literature revision. There, I’ve said it. The problem I have with it is that a quotation can only get...
Friday, 7 July 2023
Crying over words. They are more than tiers.
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In English teaching, we tend to neglect the fact that students arrive in our classroom with a suitcase of words in their brain already. We c...
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