02 June 2020

A cognitive failing that leads us to value the least valuable learning activities.

›
So I realise I haven't written anything for a very long time indeed, and there's probably no-one reading at this point, but there...
1 comment:
22 January 2017

Testing terminology: Formative and Summative assessment

›
I've talked before about specialist terminology a few times in the past. My view (in short) is that terminology should be meaningful t...
25 September 2016

Don't get any big ideas: the dominance of names in social sciences

›
It has bugged me for quite some time that in language, in education and in the social sciences in general, there are certain names whose big...
1 comment:

Does cross-language transfer exist?

›
[I actually wrote this about 6 months ago and I'm not sure why I didn't publish it. I've read it over and it looks finished to m...
24 September 2016

The master approaches...

›
So I've just embarked on a new phase in my career, beginning a masters degree programme in TESOL. After Christmas I get the opportunity ...
27 February 2016

Edinburgh's trouble with multilingual education.

›
The Scottish Government has long had an aspiration to wider availability of multilingual education, and recently formalised on the European ...
15 February 2016

Implicit and explicit, meaningful and meaningless

›
Last week I was across in Edinburgh catching up with friends. I arrived early, so went into a bookshop to kill time... and came out with two...
1 comment: