Language Debates

@owl33JM @Team_English1 @EngLangBlog What's the board? They don't all require the reading/writing/literacy acquisition part...

Any recommendations for reading or resources/theories/research for A-level children's literacy/reading/writing? Been a while since I taught this part! #TeamEnglish @Team_English1 @EngLangBlog @LanguageDebates #KS5 #linguistics #CLA

Just published! Our new study explores how Japanese speakers use emojis, revealing a preference for SOV or OV sequences, mirroring Japanese grammar. This insight highlights the influence of native language on emoji communication. 🚀📚 #EmojiResearch …itiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…

RT @LAEL_LU: Deception detection is a critical area, but do we all lie in the same way? We're looking for British-English-speaking adults (…

We posted last week about #GenZ #slang. Well, did you know that it's now been added to #Amazon's #Alexa? From this month, Amazon users will be able to ask Alexa to "talk Gen Z to me". Read more: tinyurl.com/mr25yt2a

@econteaching1 @petergates3 @DrRLofthouse @RethinkingJames Crossing my fingers for a bit more?

It’s confusing that the apparent opening up of education / research spaces through Twitter, ResearchEd, EdFest, expansion of teaching books etc etc seems to have resulted in no more than about 10 data sources / individuals being referenced over and over again. The same names…

RT @Google: New emoji are on the way 🎉 Plus 9 more fun facts to celebrate World Emoji Day 📅 ↓ goo.gle/3Lvux5S

'Initial Teacher Training in English should: teach principles and insights from a range of research, past and present, rather than dogmatically prescribing a narrow selection focused on the latest ‘trends’ which are highly  contested assertions about learning' - Yes, this...

@petergates3 @DrRLofthouse Hi Peter. Really keen to build a bank of alternatives to Rosenshine to be able to direct staff and senior leaders to. Can you suggest some? Cheers

@DrRLofthouse Most of whom reference the same poor and outdated research (eg Rosenshine)

#Discourses and a bit of #Legalese

@longr004 @EngMediaCentre Really glad to see one of my colleagues here. Hope it goes well @EngMediaCentre

Fantastic initiative from @EngMediaCentre - all the best to the new team helping to develop what matters in English teaching!

@_disinclined @tonythorne007 And, shows they get what 'indexing' is.

@LanguageDebates @tonythorne007 Is this just referencing discourses?

#Lexis #Semantics #Deixis

#Orthography #LangChange #Discourses

@dantjenks Yeah, it looks like lots is the same. How much time do you give CLA?

Okay #AlevelEngLang peeps: am going to be teaching OCR in Sept. Anybody on here got some words of wisdom for me?