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Sara Thorne English Language | English grammar and understanding language in context Tags: no_tag Posted from Diigo. The rest of English Language Teachers group favorite links are here.

An interesting discussion touching on this issue cropped up on an English teacher’s online forum I participate in recently. The post I wrote piecing it together is a bit long for here, perhaps, so you can click here if you’re … Continue reading →

Do you struggle to remember what sort of things you should be writing about poems in the exam? Well the number one thing is that you should write about what your answer to the question is. As I tell my … Continue reading →

Text Mechanic – Text Manipulation Tools Online text manipulation tools: copy and paste text into the broser, then tinker with it in various ways (eg. randomise lines of poems, merge lines, reverse text etc) Tags: tools, text – By Ant … Continue reading →

A properly referenced bibliography is a compulsory requirement for your coursework to be accepted. Therefore, can you make sure you that you keep careful records of everything that you read and refer to so that you can cite it correctly in your co… Continue reading →

Make sure you read and understand this (you also saw it before last year’s ENGB2 work so none of it should be news! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1erRjK6Xmn6EeYnuTcE9YyU97U67f1qza7ZA5PTPH2Ck/pub Continue reading →

You may recall me mentioning in our last lesson the way that students have used blogs in the past as a means of demonstrating progress, sharing ideas, keeping links and resources together, making things like surveys/questionnaires available, and s… Continue reading →

Ancient Scripts: Why Languages Change Tags: ENGB3, change, history Dialect levelling in Britain – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tags: ENGB3, change, language change, varieties Studying the History of English Comprehensive coverage of History of English and Language Change issues from … Continue reading →

Descriptivism vs. prescriptivism: War is over (if you want it) « Sentence first Tags: ENGB3, change, prescriptivism, attitudes Posted from Diigo. The rest of English Language Teachers group favorite links are here.

The Rise of Prescriptivism in English Academic paper on eighteenth century prescriptivism, the ‘Academy’ question etc Tags: prescriptivism, ENGB3, attitudes, academy – By Ant Heald Posted from Diigo. The rest of English Language Teachers group favorite links are here.