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Noam Chomsky Talks About Universal Grammar [Video] In this video, Noam Chomsky talks about language at Google as part of the Authors@Google series. In this question and answer session he discusses a number of topics, but the first is about universal grammar in which he provides an in-depth description of how his ideas on universal grammar have e... Teachermate -Handheld Console for Educational Games An Illinois, non-profit organisation called Innovations for Learning has released a handheld consul, like a Game Boy or Nintendo DS designed for education and targeted at kindergarten and elementary students. Despite its simplicity and lack of software, this device has a lot of potential for E... Drilling - Judicious Use of Brute Force in the ESL Classroom Once Upon A School - TED Prize Winner I recently watched an inspiring talk given as part of the TED 2008 conference by Dave Eggers, a philanthropist and teacher-at-large (as they describe him). The talk shows ways in which dedicated one-to-one teaching can be provided to pupils who would not normally have access to this sort of perso... Teacher Training -Grammar Based PPP As part of the course, trainees need to present evaluation lessons usin... Lexxica -Vocabulary Analysis The site is difficult to navigate and prone to crash. If all goes well, try the V-Check to find out ho... Site Overview- 2007 Since the end of 2004, we have recorded how many entries we have in some of the sections of our site, which means that we can see how much new content we have created since then. In 2007, we put the Language Articles, Teaching Articles and PDF Lesson Plans into databases and currently have 26, 31... Teaching Christmas We have added a number of lessons for different levels and articles about Christmas and how it can be taught and used in the classroom. There will be more to follow in the next few days, so please check the What's New page for updates. Teaching Abroad Are you thinking about teaching abroad? If you are, then this article might help you out. The first thing I've got to say to you is not to allow yourself to be swayed by your emotions or the romantic notion of living in a foreign country. Employers count on this to hook you to come over and likel... Steven Pinker on Language & Thought I've just found the following video in which Steven Pinker looks at language, and the way it expresses the workings of our minds. By analysing common sentences and words, he shows us how, in what we say and how we say it, we're communicating much more than we realise.
Another training article. Something my trainees weren't doing very well -drilling. Not very exciting, but someone might find it useful.
As an aside from my usual topics about using computers for language education, recently I am involved in a teacher training programme and would like to share an article I am working on to assist new teachers to plan a lesson.
Lexxica provides resources to determine how much vocabulary a student knows and find gaps in their knowledge. They also claim to be able to accurately assess which words a student already knows.
