Naoko Sensei puts a digital countdown timer on the board. Sets it to 40 seconds. All pupils stand up: it is time to practice, in pairs, the months in English. One of the students says 2月, the other one responds in English: February. A boy says 4月, and after some hesitation, a girl says April.Continue reading “How much time do we have? On Countdown timers in Japanese schools and the first week of my “minigration” to Japan”
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Getting out of the comfort zone, again? On our AI-Write project, Limerick, and the future of higher education (in Europe)
We are living in the times when at least half of the LinkedIn users1, AI-influencers, or people you barely know are telling you to get out of your comfort zone, before you have had enough time to spend in and enjoy your “comfort zone” (i.e. doing what you know best – apparently it is “notContinue reading “Getting out of the comfort zone, again? On our AI-Write project, Limerick, and the future of higher education (in Europe)”
My forthcoming plenary in ILTERG2
I have been reflecting on my corpus linguistic, conversation analytic and recent ethnographic investigations into language teacher education practices lately, given that I have a plenary in the forthcoming ILTERG2 conference. It has been such a pleasure to work with student-teachers and mentors from Turkey and Sweden so far – my research would not haveContinue reading “My forthcoming plenary in ILTERG2”
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