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Explaining the difference between (near-) synonyms
I have recently received an email from a colleague, an EFL teacher in Israel, about how her students find it difficult differentiating betwe...
Highlighting lexical chunks with Diigo
Image by photosteve101 on Flickr www.planetofsuccess.com/blog Diigo is a social bookmarking tool which allows you to save and access all ...
Two axes of word relationships
Let's start with a warmer... Which of these tasks or exercises do you normally see in coursebooks? Look at the highlighted verbs in...
One word leads to ... or you've been primed!
Introducing students to the idea of lexical priming and a web tool called Netspeak Photo by Tzvi Meller In my previous post from the For the...
In response to Hugh Dellar’s Dissing Dogme : In defence of… TBL
In the second installment of his thought-provoking and thoroughly enjoyable “Dissing Dogme” series (see here ), Hugh Dellar addresses the to...
Sloppy Brits or uptight Americans?
Who is sloppier when it comes to grammar or should we all just get over it? A recent discussion on a teachers’forum has made me wonder amus...
What is your favourite chunk?
Blog visitors poll Leoxicon is about to clock up ten thousand visitors and I thought I should do something to celebrate this achievement. At...
Teaching vocabulary out of context: conclusions
This follows on my earlier post Teaching vocabulary out of context: is it worth the time? About a month ago I blogged about my mini action r...
News quiz 2011 and end-of-year round-up
Round-up My blog celebrates its first birthday today. It’s been a busy year so I haven’t blogged as often as I should have – probably below ...
Teaching vocabulary out of context: is it worth the time?
Those of you who have been to my workshops or read my articles on TeachingEnglish are perhaps surprised why someone who advocates teaching ...
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