You can check out my guest post on a blog belonging to the Mighty, Mighty Phil Wade by following this link: Breaking The Law In The Language Classroom – Anthony Gaughan It’s just me getting all self-righteous about the wanton lack of respect for copyright in our photocopy-addicted profession – and some classic 80s heavy […]
Asides
Teaching Tao ‘n’ Zen…
Teaching Tao ‘n’ Zen… …We have a firm opinion about our strengths and weaknesses, we believe we know enough to know our character, and recognise our limits. In this we know, strictly speaking, absolutely nothing. What we “know” about ourselves, we have learnt through comparison. All the characteristics that we have attributed to ourselves, we […]
Blast from the Past! – new old article
Just posted another old (or should that be ‘vintage’?) article of mine that I dug up. Re-reading it wasn’t too embarrassing so I thought I’d share. I can see lots of connections to now: the ideas about learner independence explain why Howard Vickers’ talk at the Dogme Symposium resonates so much with me, and the […]
One from the Vaults – “40 Things…”
Was clearing out my closet and found this article I wrote with my colleague Dominic Braham a few years back. I’ve added it to the blog as a page in the “Other Writing” section. We enjoyed writing it and I hope you may find it interesting – here’s the link: http://teachertrainingunplugged.wordpress.com/other-writing/40-things-to-do-with-a-text/ Feel free to comment with […]
Quick bit of housekeeping
You’ll notice (I hope!) that the top menu has slimmed down considerably. The old content is all still there, hidden neatly under drop-down menus. This will give me the chance to upload more old random stuff without clogging the main blog. I think it’s fairly self explanatory. If not, sorry, but have fun searching 😉 […]