My friend and colleague at @UoNEnglish Prof Zoltán Dörnyei sadly passed away this morning following an illness. A great loss for the School and for applied linguistics in the world. RIP.
Australia falls to #39 on press freedom index (was #25)
“Press freedom is fragile in this island-continent of 26 million people, where ultra-concentration of media ownership, combined with growing official pressure, endanger public-interest journalism” https://t.co/WrgzaLLWTH
Imagine the ego you must have to lose govt and record majority in 1 term plus your own seat but still think “hey, I reckon QLD still loves me” #qldpol#auspol
Accidentally sent home 163 permission notes, accidentally ordered a bus, accidentally admitted 160 healthy, wealthy 16 year olds to a health facility and accidentally administered a vaccine …
Extraordinary photo from Gaza on the front page of The Guardian today - six year old Suzy Eshkuntana pulled alive from the rubble 7 hours after an Israeli air strike that killed her mom and all four of her siblings
A month ago, Israeli police cut cables to loudspeakers at Aqsa Mosque to keep prayers from interrupting the Israeli president's speech at the Western Wall. From there conflict escalated into the worst eruption of violence in years. @PatrickKingsley https://t.co/Myz39EhdJx
CLT is not settled science (and gets spoken about a lot by non-neurolinguistics)🙋♂️, but a CLT-sensitive approach can frame a way of thinking about how much pressure we put on students, similar to a "plus one" approach. #cognitiveload#CPD#tefl#tesol https://t.co/S1LhLyNixD