Back from lunch at #ttt_meaningfulwekend, and listening to Branka Deceski talk about her experience of throwing away a formal lesson plan. Interesting to hear about the role reflection, writing the plan after the class, and learning from that has to play in her approach.

Would be quite interested to see an analysis of how Wordle words place on frequency lists before and after the takeover. Wordle 246 3/6 🟨⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

There you go - knew someone would have looked into it.

Am I alone in finding it annoying when people overuse my name when they are trying to sell me things? Read more 👉 lttr.ai/sNEP #GriceanMaxims #communication #SmallTalk

Tag questions with a falling intonation, force agreement. Read more about this piece of persoasive language 👉 lttr.ai/sNEQ #ELTChat #languagenerds #TEFL

Because, yes, we can all see the gamification involved in the carefully structured levelling up, and the earning gems, and the being in different leagues competing against other Duolingo participants and so on. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/sNEU #ELTChat #Duolingo

Yeah, but his mum came out and was all, get in here and do your piano practice, Rupert. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/sNEV #ELTChat #languagenerds #TEFL

There’s a lot of repeating what you hear, copying what you hear, translating in and out of your language but, and this is the interesting thing, quite a lot of it is not meant to be particularly challenging. ▸ lttr.ai/sNEX #ELTChat #Duolingo #Audiolingualism

I would be having conversations with the proper born and bred Londoners of my acquaintance, and finding them faintly off in some way, until I realised that what was actually happening was... Read more 👉 lttr.ai/sNEY #ELTChat #languagenerds #TEFL

I generally approve of not being so dogmatic in your approach to language teaching/ learning that you discount the idea that there might be other ways of doing it. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/3Kvo #ELTChat #Duolingo #Audiolingualism

Students do not come to class to learn about the present perfect, they come to class to learn how to speak English. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/3x6W #ELTChat #languagenerds #TEFL

Audiolingualism is a methodology associated with the theories of B F Skinner, who once taught a two year old to be deathly afraid of his mother’s fur coat. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/65jB #ELTChat #Duolingo #Audiolingualism

"I apologize if the slang is a bit Gen X. I'm a bit Gen X. I also can't do this at all, because Gen X, not a Londoner and probably way too middle class". Read more 👉 lttr.ai/7fxu #ELTChat #languagenerds #TEFL