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Free English grammar exercises and tests online

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Practice English grammar exercises online for free with thousand questions covering the most popular grammar topics. You can download free tests for offline use.

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Summary of BESIG Online Conference Session – Nick Robinson: “How (and why) to join a group of materials writers?”

Lizzie Pinard

This session was delivered by Nick Robinson, who is one of the coordinators of the Materials Writing SIG (MaW SIG) – at impressively high speed due to technical difficulties taking over the first half of the session!

The aim of the session was to give a short overview of MaW SIG, in terms of why it was set up and what the coordinators hope that members will be able to get out of it. Thus, rather than a “how to” session, it was more of a “why to” session.

So, why was MaW SIG created?

Well, until now, with the creation of MaW SIG, there hasn’t been a special interest group aimed especially at materials writing. (It is important to note the -ing there: materials writING, not writers. It is aimed at anyone who is interested in the process of materials writing. You don’t need to be published, or…

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Turn your Twitter and Facebook skills into a career

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MA courses have elevated the subject to an academic discipline

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What’s the best way to teach languages?

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How do students best pick up languages? Martin Williams talks to academics, teachers and multi-lingual speakers to find out about the science of learning a language

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How is technology transforming the role of teachers?

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Exams where you can Google the answers; is research all it’s cracked up to be; plus our new hub for parents of students … all on our online education communities this week

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How to teach … English as a foreign language

How to teach … English as a foreign language

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How is technology transforming the role of teachers?

How is technology transforming the role of teachers?

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Moving beyond the well-worn debate about the potential of technology in the classroom, this week the Guardian Teacher Network is running a special series to explore how technology is transforming the role of a teacher.

What’s the best way to teach languages?

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Here’s a link to an article in today’s Guardian newspaper which should help us think about what we are doing in our classrooms.

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What’s the best way to teach languages?

David's ESOL Blog

Here’s a link to an article in today’s Guardian newspaper which should help us think about what we are doing in our classrooms.

I love you in 311 languages. Image shot 01/2013. Exact date unknown.

http://gu.com/p/3fz6a

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