Neil Hutchinson

I teach children things about English in a school.

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@sue_wilkinson That's great stuff Sue thank you!

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I know this is a massive ask, but am looking for an A Level AQA Psychology teacher to glance at some scripts before priority remark deadline tomorrow. It's for a colleague's daughter who has missed out on uni as a result of a B in this subject. Huge favour, good karma for you!

[Jeffrey Boakye @jeffreykboakye]

Teachers, educators and those working in social care must be supported in dealing with the safeguarding and child protection concerns that this raises.

The letter will be open to sign until Friday. Share widely. Many thanks.
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@EngLangBlog

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Welcome to our world squire!

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@AndrewxMontague @LizKershawDJ Can you explain what dropping an h means please?

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@rosyeliz1 @Team_English1 @Craig_Batty @amy_smith117 @BarbaraBleiman is this something you could help my colleague with do you think? @ClareFeeneyUK any thoughts?

[Rosy B @rosyeliz1]

We want to deliver some key reading and writing skills for our sixth form that applies to all subjects. Has anyone done something similar before and wouldn't mind sharing? 🙏 For example Cornell notes, the Golden Thread of an essay etc. @Team_English1 @Craig_Batty @amy_smith117

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Student in school used the vulgarity, "schlong" today. Haven't heard it since I was a bairn. Sparked much discussion in the English office about it's origin. I said I'd ask people in the know. Any thoughts? @MichaelRosenYes @tonythorne007 @susie_dent @EngLangBlog

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A belated massive thank you to @lovermob and @EngLangBlog and @harriepw for highly engaging sessions at the @KirkbieKendal annual A Level English Language conference last week. Chris Montgomery on dialects equally superb! Inspiring speakers all!

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@miss_tiggr @ClareFeeneyUK @RobDrummond @VoicesMcr @EngLangBlog @ian_cushing @AccentismProj Aye no bother Charlotte. DM me and I'll send you some stuff :)

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@Ofstednews Hi @Ofstednews. Could you define spoken Standard English please? Or describe what a student using Standard English in spoken language might do? @ian_cushing

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@EngLangBlog @hurricaneteach Stoner was a masterpiece. Gave it to my father-in-law and haven't seen it since. He denies still having it but we both know. We know.

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@jbackeberg @EngLangBlog I have the students complete a different case study of their choosing. Best one this year for the aspects mentioned was what he calls Hinglish (his grandparents are Indian). Had a South African student do the same for SAE. OED site is a great starting point.

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@EngLangBlog by adopting a variety of repertoires to fit in. I'm starting to doubt whether accent is a helpful term, as it's too narrow to describe what we all do with speech production. Perhaps there are only individual and social speech repertoires influenced by varied contexts/2

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@EngLangBlog Interesting that doing extra drama is their 'solution' to their perceived problem. This acknowledges the performative nature of accents. Sharma's work with Asian communities in London is a good example of how young people negotiate their way through systemic accent prejudice /1

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After some top band/mark answers for AQA A Level English Lang P 1 and 2 from Jun 21 if anyone would be willing to share? Any resources created from them will be shared back no problem! It's the boxing (P1) and banning non-standard lang in schools (P2) @EngLangBlog @LexisPodcast

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@FayeGriffiths8 @schoolimprover I was just reading about this yesterday in a student's language investigation! Crystal calls it a parenthetical construction and/or comment clause I believe.