Sunday, 28 April 2019

Ideas on how we can look at language-in-use

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One of the tricks that people in authority work on us occurs when they impose on us a system that seems for a moment to be 'the only way...
Saturday, 27 April 2019

I'm not making up this stuff to do with schools and 'data'

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Comment from comments thread following my article in the Guardian on Tuesday: "steve sanderson: I had a visit from three DfE officials ...
Friday, 26 April 2019

The McNamara Fallacy

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Someone put this up on the comments thread following my article in the Guardian this week: "The McNamara fallacy (also known as quan...
Wednesday, 17 April 2019

Zionism, Zionists, Katzism

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Richard Burgon MP has apologised for saying that Zionism is an 'enemy of peace'. Leaving that to one side for the moment, let's ...
Saturday, 13 April 2019

Classroom teacher David Keyte offers "Things I believe help children become 'readers'"

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This list comes from classroom teachers David Keyte from Yattendon School. He posted it on twitter. Things I believe help children become ...
Monday, 1 April 2019

How does Reveal-Conceal work? How do writers do it? Why is it important?

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1. BERNARDO Who's there? 2. FRANCISCO Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself. 3. BERNARDO Long live the king! 4. FRANCISCO ...
Saturday, 30 March 2019

Why 'Grammar'? Response to 'Making Grammar Meaningful' from 'Teaching English' (Spring 2019)

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(This blog is a response to an article in 'Teaching English' (Issue 19,  NATE Spring 2019. The article is called: 'Making G...