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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸
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MA Online & Distance Education & Applied Linguistics | ELT, CALL, Instructional Design, & Moodle 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 https://matbury.com/
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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · Jan 24
ChatGPT-ed myself, out of curiosity. Here's what I got:
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Integrating extramural English: Developing stronger communicative proficiency in universities & colleges

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November 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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#blueLZ #engluschunterricht:

Explizite Instruktion ist der Zaun oben auf der Klippe, nicht der Krankenwagen unten. Steile These? Finde den Post von Matt Bury super.
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Explicit instruction vs. corrective feedback

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November 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Explicit instruction vs. corrective feedback

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November 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Coming soon - Turner & Hoffmann on Creative Construction Grammar. In this, we argue that the domain-general process of Conceptual Blending is the cognitive operation that combines constructions. BTW this will be published open access!

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November 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Why traditional EFL coursebooks fail to develop communicative & linguistic competence

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November 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Explicit instruction vs. corrective feedback

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November 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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I advise teachers & students to move on from retrieval practice into more integrative learning/study tasks as quickly as possible, e.g. once students are achieving >80% on retrieval tests after delays of 2 days or more.
didau.bsky.social David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 7d
Retrieval practice is both necessary and insufficient. This week’s essay explores the tension between the zeal of retrievalism and the philosophical worry that recall tells us nothing about truth. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
The limits of retrieval practice
Why retrieval practice strengthens memory, why it cannot explain learning on its own, and why both extremes miss the point
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November 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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How multitasking inhibits learning

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November 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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"Too little is known about the field of AI in education for anyone to be an expert yet."
November 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Wouldn't it be ironic if some clever person developed an AI browser plugin that filtred out articles, posts, & comments about AI, LLMs, AI marketing hype, AI "experts", etc.?

Please? Oh, please?!
November 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Meaning first: Why connecting form and meaning is essential for language learning

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November 11, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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With so much news, hype, and 'research' about AI in education, I thought it a good idea to bring this blog and open access article under everyone's attention.

ChatGPT: An effect in search of a cause
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ChatGPT in Education: An Effect in Search of a Cause
Background As researchers rush to investigate the potential of AI tools like ChatGPT to enhance learning, well-documented pitfalls threaten the validity of this emerging research. Issues of media co...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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It’s Time to Move on from Emergency Remote Teaching

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November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Our new study at Developmental Psychology is out! Longitudinal associations between digital reading, motivation and comprehension in Primary school. Clear mutual associations, and negative influences of digital habits on future motivation. @altamuralidia.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
APA PsycNet
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November 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Carl Hendrix writes an insightful summary of the best research into using AI for education to date & poses some interesting questions.

By far, the best article on AI in education I've read so far: carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-algori...
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Digital sovereignty or digital colony? A wake-up call for Europe

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November 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Nobody: What's England like?

England: ...

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Happy *Gunpowder Treason Day*! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Faw...
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November 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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November 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Making the student writing process transparent: Version control as a practical & pedagogical response to LLM enabled academic misconduct

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November 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Making the student writing process transparent: Version control as a practical & pedagogical response to LLM enabled academic misconduct

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November 1, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Here's a list of UK MPs who voted in favour of starting a process to leave the European Convention on Human Rights. Never forget what these people did: votes.parliament.uk/votes/common...
European Convention on Human Rights (withdrawal): Ten Minute Rule Motion - Commons' votes in Parliament - UK Parliament
European Convention on Human Rights (withdrawal): Ten Minute Rule Motion
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October 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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For anyone in educational management & who might want to rethink the ways in which they regard & treat their teachers, i.e. not having to recruit significant numbers of teachers every academic year: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-ev...
Recruiting, retaining, and supporting teachers
Summary of evidence to help school leaders recruit and retain teachers, drawing on EEF and wider research.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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ELT methodology is chronically under-defined: When we teach without definition, we teach in the dark

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October 30, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Rethinking grammar instruction: Why usage-based, Construction Grammar-informed language learning outperforms skill-acquisition approaches

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October 29, 2025 at 11:13 AM