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http://www.njsbf.org/images/content/1/1/11085/Plagiarism07_final.pdf
An informative brochure prepared for and published by the New Jersey State Bar Foundation.
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Research Study Manuscript Outline
"This handout ... provides a detailed outline of how to construct a research study, focused to manuscripts concerning an English as a Foreign Language [education-related topic], using quantitative or qualitative methodology, or both" (Abstract, 2916.07.28).
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What Great Listeners Actually Do
- people perceive the best listeners to be those who periodically ask questions that promote discovery and insight. These questions gently challenge old assumptions, but do so in a constructive way
- Constructive interactive listening strategies: inquire, "challenge old assumptions," and seek new discoveries and insights (Zenger & Folkman, 2016, Good listening is much more ..., ¶1, 2016.07.26 [JST]).
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"Recently, academics are receiving an increasing number of email invitations to submit papers. While some are legitimate announcements from reputable organizations, many are a new kind of spam from what Beall (2012) calls “predatory publishers” (p. 179). Basically, they track you down through the titles of your work and invite you to submit manuscripts. They promise quick turnaround and imply guaranteed acceptance. If you are a novice researcher, you might be flattered into submitting. However, you may find later that there is a hefty fee. We wrote this paper to help you identify suspicious solicitations so that you can avoid being duped" (¶1).
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APA Style Blog: Introducing APA Style CENTRAL
The video in this post introduced the APA's institutional mega-service! Do you have any hands-on experience? If so, what are your impressions? Does it compare favorably with other reference management tools or suites?
Sunday, July 31, 2016
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Sunday, July 24, 2016
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Australian Curriculum | Global Education
"The Australian Curriculum sets out the core knowledge, understanding, skills and general capabilities important for all Australian students. It describes what all young Australians are to be taught as a foundation for their future learning, growth and active participation in the Australian community" (Australian Curriculum, ¶1, 2016.07.20).
Sunday, July 17, 2016
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The Overselling of Ed Tech - Alfie Kohn
""[W]e shouldn’t confuse personalized learning with personal learning. The first involves adjusting the difficulty level of prefabricated skills-based exercises based on students’ test scores, and it requires the purchase of software. The second involves working with each student to create projects of intellectual discovery that reflect his or her unique needs and interests, and it requires the presence of a caring teacher who knows each child well" (Kohn, 2016.03.12, ¶9).
Sunday, July 10, 2016
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Enigma of English education | Daily News
An article from the Sri Lankan press.
- we did not have enough competent English teachers. By late 1990s, plans were afoot to train 50,000 school teachers to teach English. Much effort and money were spent on the project but the standard of English among the trained teachers remained low
- Teacher training failed to accomplish goals (What went wrong? ¶1).
- traditional Sri Lankan society put far too much emphasis on proficiency exams. Not only are they insufficient method of assessing language abilities, but also they put an insurmountable amount of pressure on students as well as teachers and schools
- Students and teachers faced "insurmountable" test performance pressure (What went wrong? ¶1) from parents and administrators.
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Improve Your Pronunciation By 'Shadowing' Others
Voice of America, Learning English, Education Tips # 4 This 6:35 min. audio program included "the opinion of Marla Yoshida, an English as a Foreign Language teacher at the University of California, Irvine" (transcript, ¶2) "that English learners need to do more than listen and repeat in order to improver their pronunciation" (The problem with listening and repeating, ¶2).
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Top 6 Open Source Web Conferencing Software Tools For eLearning Professionals - eLearning Industry
Pappas proposed six "budget-friendly ... open source web conferencing software tools to consider" (2016.05.27).
Sunday, July 03, 2016
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Tame Your Inner Critic | Tomorrow's Professor Postings
This TomProf post encapsulated "advice on how to limit the power of your inner critic when you sit down to do your next writing" (Message Number: 1503, Folks, ¶1).
Thursday, June 30, 2016
Better World Flux (recovered draft, 2012.07.13)
- 0. Reset the display.
- 1. Drag and drop population trend indicators, or combinations of them, that you want to include in the display;
- 2. Click to add countries whose relative status vis-a-vis those indicators you want to highlight;
- 3. Explore the results:
- a) either by playing an animation or moving the slider with your cursor to see changes over time, and
- b) by clicking on colorful data bands to display the names of other countries in the same bands.
Sunday, June 26, 2016
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Integrating technology into English language teaching - The Hindu
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Have language teaching and learning become easier because of technological innovations and availability of tools such as mobile apps?
I don’t think it has become easier. We’ve become resource rich, but in some ways our job has become harder. Technology has changed the way people communicate and interact with and through language. That has broadened the scope of what we need to do and the range of skills we need to enable that process.
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In what ways can technology promote learner autonomy?
Technology is a huge enabler of learner autonomy because it can give students access to a large range of material, sources of information and useful applications. And if, as teachers, we focus on helping our students to understand how to use technology to become more autonomous learners, then we could really start to realise the full potential that technology offers us.
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Center for Instructional Excellence - Intercultural Learning 101
Purdue University's modular online prep. course for studying abroad
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Team Building: 8 Fundamentals, 6 Best Practices - eLearning Industry
Alex Teregodistinguished teams from committees, proposed eight fundamental characteristics of team building, and then listed and elaborated what he considered "The 6 Best Practices for Successful Team Building" (2016.05.28).
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News | UN Women – Headquarters
A directory or news and other items in categories by type, topic, region, and country
Sunday, June 19, 2016
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93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness
"There are over 800 documentaries now cataloged in our library of social change films. ... The films cover a wide array of topics, from media to war to politics and sustainability" (¶1-2, 2016.06.16).
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Nik's Learning Technology Blog: 20 + Things you can do with QR codes in your school
A 25 September 2015 post by Nik Peachey that he shared with the EdTechTalk group 7 June 2016
Sunday, June 12, 2016
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Project Based Teaching Rubric | Project Based Learning | BIE
This [Buck Institute for Education] rubric describes beginning, developing, and Gold Standard levels for Project Based Teaching Practices for K-12 teachers" (What is it? ¶1, 2016.06.10).
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QR Codes Generator | QRcoder.co
Generates codes for various content
Sunday, June 05, 2016
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Diving In: The Open Waters of Digital Resources and Open Educational Resources (OER) - OLC
"The question I pose is not how we use digital or OER, but how we use the combination of both types of resources to provide pedagogically rich, high quality, cost-effective resources for students"
Sunday, May 29, 2016
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Cyber Savvy | Embrace Civility
Backbenched now (Embrace Civility, home page, 2016.05.25), but well worth looking over: "Cyber Savvy is a student-led, positive norms approach to teach upper intermediate, middle, and high school students (grades 5 - 12) about digital safety, including effective digital decision-making, safe posting of personal information, digital relationships, social networking, cyberbullying, and digital dating/exploitation. The schools that have used this program in the pilot testing have been very pleased with the results" (Cyber Savvy, ¶1, 2016.05.25).
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Why Should I Learn More about Social Media? - OLC
This OLC Institute post suggested three purposes and provided numerous examples of social media implementation and integration that may serve to "support learning in online courses" (2016.05.17, ¶3, ff.), namely:1. Amplifying the physical and psychological engagement of learners (Engagement using social media, ¶1);2. Providing instruction to "increase teaching effectiveness and enhance learning outcomes" (Instruction involving social media, ¶1); and3. Facilitating access to, and increasing availability of academic, career, and other "support services" (Student support using social media, ¶1).Reference Online Learning Consortium [OLC] Institute for Professional Development. (2016.05.17). Why Should I Learn More about Social Media? [weblog post]. http://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn-social-media/
Sunday, May 22, 2016
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Just Listen | Tomorrow's Professor Postings
In this excerpt, Lowman and Aldrich (2016) suggested strategies for informal conferences with individual students, "preferably during office hours, rather than … after class or on campus" (Just Listen, ¶2). They indicated that the purpose of these sorts of somewhat extended encounters, approximately 10-30 minutes in length (Close the conversation…, ¶1), was empowerment of students to "better understand their situation[s], consider … wider range[s] of options, and make their own decisions about their future[s]" (Just Listen, ¶2). Their suggestions highlighted: active listening, (re-)focusing, moderating distress, avoiding giving advice, closing, and recommending follow-ups for student conferences.Lowman, Joseph; & Aldrich, Howard. (2016). Just Listen. National Teaching & Learning Forum, 25, 1–3. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ntlf.30054/full [doi: 10.1002/ntlf.30054]
Sunday, May 15, 2016
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Teaching and Learning Resources / ARCS Model of Motivational Design
"The ARCS motivational design process is a systematic problem solving approach that requires knowledge of human motivation and progresses from learner analysis to solution design" (Keller's ARCS Model of Motivational Design, ¶1, 2016.05.13).
Sunday, May 08, 2016
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JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
Alderton, Elizabeth; Brunsell, Eric; & Bariexca, Damian. (2011). The end of isolation. MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 7(3).
- Professional learning networks created through social networking, like Twitter, can provide these opportunities. However, collaborative conversations alone are often not enough to promote teacher learning and change. Teachers must try complex innovations in their classroom and reflect upon these implementations in order to extract from experience the knowledge that leads to improved teaching (Ladewski, Krakcik, & Harvey, 1994).
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About | Digital Writing, Digital Teaching
"Digital Writing, Digital Teaching is a blog ... [that] explores the variety of issues related to teaching writing with new media for K-16 teachers and teacher educators" (About, ¶1, 2016.05.02).
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About NWP - National Writing Project
"The National Writing Project focuses the knowledge, expertise, and leadership of our nation's educators on sustained efforts to improve writing and learning for all learners" (Our Mission, ¶1, 2016.05.02).
Sunday, May 01, 2016
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"This book is designed to provide useful information for living in Japan to overseas researchers under JSPS’s Postdoctoral Fellowships for Foreign Researchers and Invitation Fellowships for Research in Japan programs. It is normally sent to newly selected JSPS Fellows along with their Award Letter."
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The Challenge of Cultural Relativism
"Adapted from The Elements of Moral Philosophy by James Rachels, Chapter 2, pp. 15-29. � 1999 by McGraw-Hill, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc."
Sunday, April 17, 2016
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Putnam (2001) on social capital
"This paper starts with a discussion of definitions of social capital, then turns to issues in measurement, and finally, presents some evidence on the consequences of social capital" (¶ 1 [PDF]). Putnam, R. (2001). Social capital: Measurement and consequences. Canadian Journal of Policy Research, 2(1), 41-51. Retrieved from https://search.oecd.org/edu/innovation-education/1825848.pdf
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BBC Two - The Secret War on Terror, Episode 1
"This episode looks at how the West became involved in abductions, secret prisons and even torture...."
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WCAJ 8th Symposium Program.pdf
Final program for symposium at Tsuda College, 2016.03.05
Sunday, April 10, 2016
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The Two Worlds of Learning Analytics | EDUCAUSE
- But is this really what we want? And who should get access to such combined data? For starters, course faculty should not have access to students' academic backgrounds and performance outside of their courses, as such information could easily bias grading decisions.9 On the reverse side of the coin, university administrators should not have access to individual course grading data, as it is not their business to interfere with faculty conducting their courses.
- In the case of learning analytics, the personal touch — supported by the data collected about students — could make the real difference in their success.
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“Photos For Class” Is My Favorite Site For Finding Images | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
Larry Ferlazzo's "'go-to' site" (2016.02.20).
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Recording lectures: legal considerations | Jisc
"Clarifying the legal aspects of recording lectures at UK further and higher education institutions."
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Screencast demonstration of quotation, paraphrase, and reference composition techniques by Trey Erwin (2015)
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Kortmann, Bernd, & Lunkenheimer, Kerstin (eds.). (2013). The Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://ewave-atlas.org, Accessed on 2016-04-05.)
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http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002437/243713e.pdf
"This policy paper, released for International Mother Language Day, argues that being taught in a language other than their own can negatively impact children’s learning. It shows the importance of teacher training and inclusive supporting materials to improve the learning experience of these children, and provide them with a resilient path of achievement in life" (¶3).
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"[T]his review will focus on the iOS iPad version of Duolingo, Apple's 2013 App of the year (Duolingo, 2014) in English (L1) with French as the target language (L2)" (Overview, ¶2)."
- Target users of the app would be autonomous users with some existing level of motivation or curiosity for language study who are seeking to refresh basic skills
- Target Use, ¶1: Spot on!
- The Duolingo app is probably best used as a supplement to other language learning materials that offer more contextualized authentic language use
- Target Use, ¶2: Positive spin!
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Sunday, April 03, 2016
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http://jalt-publications.org/archive/proceedings/2001/060.pdf
Takaki, N., & Laskowski, T. (2002). An on-going study investigating teacher thinking of JTEs: A tale of two teaching cultures. In M. Swanson & D. McMurray (Eds.), _JALT2001 Conference Proceedings_. Tokyo, JP: JALT.
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http://jalt-publications.org/archive/proceedings/2004/E99.pdf
Sato, K., Takaki, N., Okada, C., Takahashi, K., Yamashita, R., & Serikawa, H. (2005). Lifelong Teacher Learning through a Collaborative Study Group. In K. Bradford-Watts, C. Ikeguchi, & M. Swanson (Eds.), _JALT2004 Conference Proceedings_. Tokyo, JP: JALT.
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http://jalt-publications.org/archive/proceedings/2006/E136.pdf
Sato, K., Cholewinski, M., Cornwell, S., Heigham, J., Kiyokawa, S., & Takaki, N. (2007). Communities of supportive professionals: Creating a teacher learning community through professional development. In K. Bradford-Watts (Ed.), _JALT2006 Conference Proceedings_. Tokyo: JALT.
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Identity Theft Recovery Steps | IdentityTheft.gov
"IdentityTheft.gov is the federal government’s one-stop resource for identity theft victims. The site provides streamlined checklists and sample letters to guide you through the recovery process."
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What is Media Literacy? - EdTechReview™ (ETR)
The ETR editorial team defines it as "a set of competencies that enable people to analyze, evaluate, and create messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres, and formats" (¶1, 2016.03.30), then draws on a P21 framework and two videos to amplify that definition.
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Apply to a U.S. Online Graduate Program as an International Student - US News
"Though the specifics vary across programs, international applicants should ensure that they meet all their requirements and apply to a school that caters to students from overseas by taking these five considerations into account" (¶3).
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"Looking Back: This Past Year after the Earthquake is a collection of accounts written by the students of Rikuzentakata City Kesen Junior High School in 2012, one year after the 3.11 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake. In its original Japanese form it was distributed to the families of the children, Rikuzentakata City Hall, and the local library. "
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Forest Service seeks to silence Smokey the Bear over fracking - Waging Nonviolence
- LaRoe ‘s culture-jam appropriation of Smokey is permissible under the fair-use exemption to exclusive copyright ownership
- this is not the first time the Forest Service has sought to silence environmentalists for appropriating Smokey’s image
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Sunday, March 20, 2016
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http://www.olt.gov.au/resource-student-assessment-learning-and-after-courses-uts-2010
Boud et al. (2010) Assessment 2020: Seven Propositions for Assessment Reform in Higher Education. Retrieved from http://www.olt.gov.au/resource-student-assessment-learning-and-after-courses-uts-2010
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Pauses can make or break a conversation -- ScienceDaily
"Long pauses can make speech difficult to understand, but short pauses can be highly beneficial. This is shown in a new doctoral thesis in linguistics from the University of Gothenburg."University of Gothenburg. (2015, September 30). Pauses can make or break a conversation. ScienceDaily. Retrieved March 18, 2016 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150930110555.htmThe actual dissertation is here: http://hdl.handle.net/2077/39346
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The Best Websites For Learning About Natural Disasters | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
"In order to make it on this list, the sites have to be accessible to English Language Learners and also provide engaging content."
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Higher Education in the Connected Age | EDUCAUSE
- For our learners and scholars, "connecting the dots" is critical. Scholars from multiple disciplines may need to collaborate to find answers to "grand challenge" questions such as those affecting the environment or health issues.
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Sea Surface Temperature | Climate Change | US EPA
This page dated 2015 provided graphs and data on sea surface temperature changes since 1880.
Sunday, March 13, 2016
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W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials (W3Schools.com) sported a banner claiming to be "the world's largest web developer site" (2016.03.12). It included numerous examples, tutorials, and references for web page development. HTML CSS JavaScript DOM jQuery ASP PHP SQL XML Bootstrap Web W3C tutorials programming development training learning quizzes primers lessons reference examples source code colors demos tips w3c
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Typographic Readability and Legibility - Envato Tuts+ Web Design Article
"This post is part of a series called A-Z of Web Typography."
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"Use this page to get HTML color codes for your website."
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"This article provides code for setting the background properties of an HTML element."
Sunday, March 06, 2016
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When he finally cuts to the chase, Anderson posits, "[T]he superordinate category should not be ‘TESOL’, and definitely not ‘TEFL’, but ‘TEAL’ – Teaching English as an Additional Language," which is exactly what I was thinking when I started reading his post.
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Michael Matsuda - Education Week Leaders To Learn From
- He never learned his parent’s native language of Japanese, and they never encouraged him to do so. To his chagrin, he didn’t learn Spanish, either. He wants to ensure that students in his district don’t lose part of their cultural heritage as he did.
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Sunday, February 28, 2016
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National Languages – Global Markets | Tomorrow's Professor Postings
Excerpt from Chapter 1, The Politics of Language (Phipps & Gonzalez, 2004) Phipps, Alison, and Gonzalez, Mike. (2004). Modern Languages: Learning and Teaching in an Intercultural Field. London, UK: Sage Publications.
- powerful languages of the world may express national identities, or they may be the medium for the expression of other collective identities distinct from or even in conflict with the nation
- Absorption and incorporation may be the preferred option for the powerful; for others – the majority, we suspect – the plurality and diversity of human expression, even within the world’s most powerful languages, is what the intercultural approach, moving from language learning to languaging, can both celebrate and encourage
- It is therefore our task in the next chapter to begin to discover a way forward, to find theory and method sufficient to the task of creating critical dispositions for languaging and being intercultural
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Sunday, February 14, 2016
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A Global Approach to Teaching Phrasal Verbs | EFL Magazine
"The good news is that phrasal verbs are one of the easiest aspects of English, provided you can get your students to make the necessary mind shift. Unlike Latinate vocabulary, as components of a flexible system, they can be GENERATED. It is thanks to their potential ambiguity that they can be used so creatively, forming much of the basis of English humour" (¶7).
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"This article provides research guidelines for authors intending to sub-mit their manuscripts to TESOL Quarterly. These guidelines includeinformation about the TESOL Quarterly review process, advice on converting a dissertation into a research article, broad introductions to a number of research methods, and a section on research ethics." (Abstract)
Sunday, February 07, 2016
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Japanese English Teachers' Increasing Use of English | JALT Publications
Murphey, T., & Sasaki, T. (1998). Japanese English teachers' increasing use of English. The Language Teacher, 22(10), 21-24, 30. http://jalt-publications.org/tlt/articles/2380-japanese-english-teachers-increasing-use-english
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Academic Publishing: Suggestions from a Journal Editor | JALT Publications
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Advice for Writers: An Interview With Sandra McKay | JALT Publications
"This is the second article in a two-part series dealing with writing for publication."
Sunday, January 31, 2016
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"Relevant keywords are what help get your resume past a scanner (if submitting your document online), and to the human eye for further review" (¶2, 2016.01.29 [JST]).
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How To Cite Social Media In Scholarly Writing
This TeachThought post sports a table of templates, apparently copyright TeachBytes 2013, for citations [of social media] in both APA and MLA styles.
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How To Attribute Creative Commons Photos
This Global Digital Citizen Foundation post sports "a comprehensive infographic that reflects interesting research findings, gives details of Creative Commons licenses and illustrates how to properly attribute CC photos" (¶3, 2016.01.25).
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World University Rankings | Times Higher Education (THE)
"The Times Higher Education World University Rankings, founded in 2004, provide the definitive list of the world's best universities, evaluated across teaching, research, international outlook, reputation and more. THE’s data are trusted by governments and universities and are a vital resource for students, helping them choose where to study" (deck, 2016.01.25).
