Friday, 8 December 2017

The full 'meaning' of a word is not its 'definition'.

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It’s easy to reduce ‘meaning’ to ‘definition’. This leaves out ‘connotation’: the web of connections a word/phrase/whole text has with our e...

Some thoughts on the improvement in 'Reading' in the international PIRLS tests

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1. The PIRLS 'Reading' test was a test in retrieval, inference and interpretation. In England, we usually lump all this together and...
Friday, 1 December 2017

Using narratology, stylistics, pragmatics, intertextuality in analysing passages of writing

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In this blog, I want to break down the topics or disciplines of narratology, stylistics, pragmatics and intertextuality into triggers which ...

Bad grammar.

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In the previous blog, I said how the disciplines of narratology, stylistics, pragmatics and intertextuality could be used as part of a broad...
Thursday, 30 November 2017

How 'knowledge about language' for schools could be so much better

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If you think of language as a whole, then 'knowledge about language' is made up of anything and everything that describes language o...
Tuesday, 28 November 2017

Some short thoughts on why picture books are so important

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The young child hearing the words of a picture book being read, and looking at the pictures all the while, 'knows more' than the voi...
Sunday, 12 November 2017

Why Tell Stories on YouTube?

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Just in case anyone was wondering, there is a logic and rationale to what I do, even in cases where I seem to be 'just' telling joke...