Anthony Schoch

France USA / Corporate Trainer / Cultural Anthropology / TESOL

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A simple exercise in active knowledge building:

1. After learning about something, write down your questions;
2. Don't seek to get an immediate answer; Instead, let the questions germinate in your mind;

Delaying answers from the outside helps us build our mental models.

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@Velib Cas de figure d'un site qui a complètement loupé la partie UX design. Un temps fou perdu à naviguer...

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LLMs have solved the problem of acces and supply of information, not of selection and memorization. This is a cognitive issue. Learning requires meaningful interaction with content, in such a way that it is reorganized in the mind and stored in Long term memory.

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..... meaning that teachers now have to become entrepreneurs and compete against one another for 'clients' (no longer learners). I wonder how this impacts professional development and the quality of teaching.

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Instead of fighting to create organisations that value teachers, recruit them, and put them at the core of their service offering, we have achieved the total fragmentation, de-structuration, and individualisation of ELT (as witnessed in this 'agency' page).

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@lexicojules @kamilaofprague What is the selection criteria and unit type of this list - eg, the 100 most highly frequent functional chunks in spoken discourse? Thanks!

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Most Gurus dangle the potential of becoming rich and/or only have to work four hours a week as a promise to sell courses, books, software, and services.... #phishingforphools

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Lessons in the classroom are not acts of texts, or language presentation, but rather contexts for discourse creation. (Prabhu 1987, p. 95)

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Criticism of Graded Readers: When limiting writers to common words, graded texts often model prescribed word usage rather than genuine use, leading to generic terms and altered meanings #MikeLong 📚✍️

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Learning Transfer System Inventories: Everything You Need to Know https://t.co/hCcdQPaPMD

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@martinhajek_ELT 😥

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5. Keep speakers ‘polite’ and not confrontational or face-threatening.

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📚 Creating Corpora-Informed Dialogues: A Practical Guide (inspired by McCarten, J. (2010), ‘Corpus-informed coursebook design’)

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4. Include Real Speech Features: repetition, rephrasing, and fragmented sentences, but keep it clear and understandable.

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"Possibly the only topic in existence that is of interest to all students everywhere is that which Humanistic Language Teaching proposes as a part of the classroom activities: oneself"

- Arnold

Uncovering the learner syllabus, their story/stories

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@kamilaofprague I find the use of transcription in community language learning more process oriented. Because it involves language that is in part new to the Ls, there is more reasons to pay attention. The transcript is not just a « post task » activity.

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Post-Task Transcription boosts complexity & accuracy more than Reporting tasks, per Skehan & Li. Eg., Ls transcribe a 1 min recording of their performance, then review/elaborate on it. My Ls often seem disengaged when I have them do this. 👀 What's your experience? #ELT #TBLT

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Me after reading SLA research classroom experiments. Effective on paper but pedagogically uninspiring. 😑 Concerned about real-world adaptation - risk of Ls disengagement is high. Need to strike a balance between effectiveness & engagement. Suggestions? #SLA #ELT