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📗This is a review I wrote for The Language Teacher in December 1988, when I had been working in Japan for only three and a half years. It surfaced while I was tidying my office, and I was struck by how much it reflects my current interests, even though it
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📕Brumfit, C. (1984). Communicative methodology in language teaching: The roles of fluency and accuracy. Cambridge University Press. I am writing a book this summer, and this morning I intuitively reached along the row of books I set up on my desk months ago — twenty or thirty I expected to need
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Multidimensionality is a design principle that expresses the fact that any learning moment operates on more than one level at once. Alongside the declared content, a learner is also: ࿇ experiencing a process ࿇ inhabiting a role ࿇ forming a sense of themselves ࿇ relating what is going on to past and possible future
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The Architecture of a Living Curriculum is built from triads. This post looks at why. Triads recur in thinking about complexity, design, and human systems. Are they doing real structural work, or are they merely decorative? I've had to ask this question of myself, since the architecture is