My Teaching English blog
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In this section you can see the latest postings from my personal blog.

Talking about novels  
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I'd like to invite you to take part in the Novel Week organised by the IATEFL Literature, Media and Cultural Studies SIG.

The benefits of Extensive Reading  
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One of the most interesting plenaries I attended at the Braz-Tesol Conference last week in Fortaleza, Brazil was Rob Waring's The missing piece of the puzzle. Rob talked about vocabulary

Reading English literature online  
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Over the past few years the popularity of Reading Groups has dramatically increased in the

The caterpillar and the butterfly  
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Never doubt the power of a good metaphor! This is also from the Aberdeen Selections and it was the plenary given by Agnes Enyedi, from Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary.

Issues in language learning - Aberdeen Selections  
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Shame on me that I haven't been posting here lately, but actually I was thinking what sort of things people here would find interesting to read about and this was not an easy task. Perhaps I could share with you my ELT readings??

Hello from Chris  
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Hi all

This is my first post here and I hope I will find some time to update it regularly.

I'm Chris Lima and my main interests are English literature, critical literay and teacher education. I'm currently involved in a number of ELT and Literature projects in partnership with the British Council and IATEFL.

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