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These are private words addressed to you in public – T.S. Eliot I do not expect many will read this. It does not matter. As I write, I imagine you are being carried by friends and family from the church to your final resting place. I doubt you will like that very much: you never […]

This mini-series of short posts sketch out some of the ideas that I would like to explore at the upcoming TDSIG Unplugged Conference in Barcelona on 21 May 2011.  If any of them chime with you and you would like to explore them as well – or if you would like to work on completely different […]

Since I posted part one of this mini-series, several other bloggers have also covered the events at the Dogme Symposium at IATEFL 2011 in Brighton. In doing so, they also described more or less all of the issues that were raised during the Q&A session and gave their own responses to them. I’d like to […]

On Monday 18 April 2011, on the penultimate day of the IATEFL Annual Conference in Brighton, England, approximately 250 people crammed into a hot and sweaty room.  Four speakers, three hours, one moderator, and no powerpoint.  The next few posts will attempt to summarize a rich and often heated event. Scott Thornbury opened proceedings and […]

I am sitting on a coach at the moment, being chauffeured down to Brighton for the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL) Conference, which is due to start tomorrow with the Special Interest Group (SIG) Pre-Conference Events (PCEs) – if there is one thing that our profession isn’t short of, […]