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ARC is free for a while

By On March 18, 2020

Right now, we need to help each other as an ELT community. I don’t have much to give away, but one thing I do have is my book, Academic Reading Circles. This COVID-19 stuff bites and while we’ll get it under control soon I hope, ARC will be free. Anyone can have get it in […]

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Recent me in ELT

By On May 4, 2018

It’s been a little while without a post… I’m sorry to myself most of all because writing for 4CinELT merges two important practices for me: academic writing for a wider audience and reflective writing. I need both of these to keep going for my own growth and mental health, frankly. I’m slowly working on […]

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ADJ clauses, student sentences …and Trudeau

By On December 12, 2017

One grammar point that comes up again and again in academic writing class is the misuse and overuse of dependent clauses. My students commonly include sentence fragments, forget dependent words i.e. relative pronouns, or attempt overly complex sentences with clause upon clause upon clause. While at higher levels, they know grammatical principles on how […]

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Cross-disciplinary collaboration, pt. 3

By On November 13, 2017

If you haven’t read Part 1 (setting up assignments together) or Part 2 (explicit connections between disciplines), please do so now.

In this last post of the series, I will discuss the results of this collaboration of assignments with our first-year History professor. In particular, I will […]

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Cross-disciplinary collaboration, pt. 2

By On October 23, 2017

If you haven’t yet read Part 1, please do so now.

In this post, I aim to examine how the History course professor, my colleague, and now very good friend, Dr. Alexandra Guerson, and I collaborated more specifically, with regard to how our assignments connect to each other, as well […]

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Cross-disciplinary collaboration, pt. 1

By On October 16, 2017

Part 1: Setting up assignments

On several occasions on this blog, I’ve been discussing the nature, execution, and impact of collaboration between people in the ELT environment. In the next three posts (Parts A, B, C), I’ll be focusing on the benefits and results of an ongoing collaboration of assignments between two courses […]

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Serial podcast for extensive reading

By On October 12, 2017

I’ve wanted to use Serial in class since I first listened to it. But first.

A little background first

Every year, one curriculum assignment is a quasi-extensive reading book club with students (I say ‘quasi’ because of a few items I’ll get to in a minute). For reading, students typically […]

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EAP warmer: learning about each other while previewing course content

By On September 19, 2017

In a new term with a new group of EAP students eager to get things going, I’ve always found it a little jarring to jump right into course content (my course is Critical Reading & Writing) even though time is of the essence. Also, I understand the value of community-building activities early on, so I […]

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Hashtags for writing practice (other skills too, likely)

By On April 26, 2016

On the Friday evening of IATEFL not long ago, I led a Pecha Kucha session on this stage with the enormous screen. Initially when the crowd was arriving, it was nerve-wracking, but once I got on stage, it was pretty invigorating, I must admit.

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ARC: Context is important

By On November 23, 2015

What are you doing, Superman?!

Yes, that’s what I first thought too. I’m sure we’re not alone. You, however, didn’t stop there I bet. You tried to figure out another explanation for what Superman could be doing.

Given what we know about Superman and his adventures, we know he’s not trying to defeat the villain with his […]

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