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Listen!

What do we mean when we say we want to improve our listening abilities? In this post we’ll take a look at 5 different listening tasks and the skills they help to foster.

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Shadowing

The important of talking to yourself when leaning a second language. Here I give a brief overview of this technique and tips on how to get started.

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“Repeat after me”

A look at retro approaches to language learning. Why these boring and old-fashioned “repeat after me” exercises do nothing but make you very, very bored.

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Mind the gap!

Some thoughts on what ‘noticing’ in language learning means & advice on how to use it in your own language learning/teaching.

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Bored & boring?

How to stop using boring, formulaic language in your L2

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Joio byw!

Is there really any such thing as Wenglish?

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