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Ciaran
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EAL IB English teacher, Celta, Delta, TYLEC, currently studying MA in language teaching and learning mediated by technology. London Irish based in Lisbon.
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Finally out & open access: Hoffmann & Turner on Creative Construction Grammar. How do we communicate complex meanings? How do we combine words into sentences?

#creativity #language #linguistics #Construction Grammar

Find out at

www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Creative Construction Grammar
Cambridge Core - Cognitive Linguistics - Creative Construction Grammar
www.cambridge.org
December 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I'm teaching some Y5 EAL stundents today. I thought it would be fun for me to have a ridiculous story and they could practice past tenses and questions forms by asking me questions about what happened.
#EAL #edusky #EFL
October 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Would love to hear some suggestions about how to make use of Otter.ai and NotebookLM for use with EAL students in MYP and DP. #EAL #NotebookLM
Otter Meeting Agent - AI Notetaker, Transcription, Insights
Otter AI Meeting Agent supports real-time transcription, live chat, automated summaries, insights, and action items.
Otter.ai
September 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
This does seem quite dangerous in sprinting.
September 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Sharing a collection of all papers from Ludic Language Pedagogy, including citation details:
link.lens.org/nTOqsAhFfCd
We're an open access journal publishing scholarly works on games x literacy teaching. If you find any of our work useful, please cite us! 🙏

#OpenScience #LLP #ludic #pedagogy
link.lens.org
May 27, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Arsenal, Champions of Europe! 🏆
May 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Really enjoyed teaching my EAL group to play Rummy, so much useful language involved. They wrote up a 'how to win guide' on their ePortfolios #edusky
February 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Enjoyed reading this www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...
I read Half of a Yellow Sun last year, really great book. Didn't know much about the civil war before.
Innit innit boys and Super Eagles: how Nigerian Londoners found their identity through football
For the children of the Nigerian diaspora, displaced by war and split between two worlds, footballers from John Fashanu to Jay-Jay Okocha were a first glimpse of themselves in Britain’s mainstream
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM