#Grammar

Kate Clanchy

KateClanchy1

We all know that children have a better capacity than adults for learning language - provided it is by immersion. We know meta-language learning doesn't work so well. No one

The Language Revolution

LangRevolution

Fronted adverbials, a thread. Firstly, a letter from @MichaelRosenYes pointing out the sheer arbitrariness of them being in the curriculum for primary children anyway: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jan/23/dear-gavin-williamson-

MarIamGrant80

Grant80Iam

It seems that the public have this ridiculous perception of what a teacher is, or should be. They think, because our profession involves working with children, we, like someone entering

Gavin Phillipson

Prof_Phillipson

In preparation for them finishing off their formatives just give my students my top five pet hates for student law essays. What are yours? 1. Failure to capitalise properly: 'Act

Abhishek Avtans अभिषेक अवतंस 🌐

avtansa

Thanks you @MaybeShek for your words of appreciation. I have been asked the same question by some other friends too on Twitter. If you want to start your journey in

Allison Carter

AllisonLCarter

So after tomorrow I will once again be furloughed. I’m glad reporters and photojournalists won’t be furloughed, but I want to talk a little about the role editors play in

purple_bookcover

purplebookcover

DIALOGUE: Grammar FAQA friend recently asked a simple dialogue question, but expressed that they had been nervous to ask for a while. So I'm just gonna put it out there.

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JulietteAkinyi

Thread. A tad ranty.These are the true enemies of Americans who are black.https://www.thecollegefix.com/rutgers-english-department-to-deemphasize-traditional-grammar-in-solidarity-with-black-lives-matter/ "The English Department at Rut

Septuagesimaexpialidocious

benjamindcrosby

Inside you are two wolves. They are both totally depraved. “Two wolves” is said in many ways While for moderns, the literal belief that inside us there are two wolves

David Clarke

DavidClarkie

Just watched Paprika, and Satoshi Kon is such a great filmmaker, living up to the legacy of Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou. The way he’s able to maintain cinematic continuity (film

Maddy

Madicattt

Okay so my friends who didn’t go to school in AKL always comment on why ppl who went to school here - particularly in central ask what school you went

Jenn Crim

jenncrim

Something you have to find a clear balance with when managing social media: strategy vs. tactics You don’t want to be so strategic that you skimp on tactics and you

Amish Tripathi

authoramish

Thanks @sanjeevsanyal for bringing me into this conversation. Yes, there is an elite which controls publishing; just like an elite group in every industry. In Indian publishing, to be a

Martin Busse

martinwbusse

At the risk of weighing in on decisions that are well above my pay grade: whoever mentioned to you that fronted adverbials are not all that significant in n English

Ethan Hein

ethanhein

Reading @mdthib and @ethan_iverson on chord-scale theory in jazz education, how it's pedagogically useful, but only to a point. You have to start somewhere with improvisation, and scales are a

Jane Falconer

falkie71

I’ve just finished reading application forms for a job vacancy @lshtmlibrary. We always get lots of applications, but unfortunately lots of them aren’t very good. /1 The number of applicants

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