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	<title>Searching for Accurate Maps &#187; EFL</title>
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	<description>Rational beings make choices. To make the right choices, we need accurate maps. This is a personal search for such maps of life, including of society and culture, learning and teaching languages, cross-cultural communication and economics</description>
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		<title>JALT Presentation on the Immediate Method</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend and I are giving a presentation this Sunday (July 19) about an EFL approach called The Immediate Method, developed in Japan by foreign-language instructors. Here are some of the documents I will use in my presentation: bperry1 (pdf) bperry2 (pdf) azraextra (pdf) Here&#8217;s the blurb from the JALT events website: The Immediate Method [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Immediate Method Autumn seminar 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I took part in the 8th Immediate Method workshop at Kobe University. I gave a very brief report on how I&#8217;d been using IM in a couple of different university contexts. (A more detailed report was published in the Conversations in Class newsletter #3 (pdf), which can be downloaded from the Alma [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where to set the bar for EFL classes at Japanese universities?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Photo credit: Limbo &#8211; &#8220;How Low Can You Go?&#8221; by sidneysealine3 on Flickr) The other day, I met an acquaintance who, like me, teaches English at a Japanese university. We were attending a wokshop, and at lunch he asked me: is very basic EFL really suitable for university students? Isn&#8217;t the bar being set too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conversation by numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, I attended a lecture by Prof. Michael McCarthy at Osaka Shoin Women&#8217;s University, and sponsored by Cambridge University Press. The title was &#8220;The Learner&#8217;s Turn&#8221;, meaning both &#8220;It&#8217;s the learner&#8217;s turn to say something&#8221; and &#8220;How learners take turns in conversation&#8221;. Michael McCarthy is a linguistics expert specialising in corpora, and has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guardian Weekly English-teaching resources</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An email recently reminded me that the Guardian Weekly (British, online newspaper) has an EFL section, including lesson plans based on GW articles. The articles aren&#8217;t too exciting, but might be useful.]]></description>
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