The Architecture of Language Reconsidered: Noam Chomsky Lecture
Reading Time: 6 minutesLanguage is like a hammer. It's just there for you to use. You can use it to build a house or you can use it to bash someone's head in.
Vizualize Me
This is a great site which takes information from your social networks and builds an infographic. It has a very neat feature in which it shows a world map of the languages you speak and [...]
Tokyo CLIL Workshop July 6th 2013, Senshu University
This is a quick report on the workshop given at Senshu University last weekend. Many thanks to Stephen Ryan of Senshu for inviting us, to Kay Irie of Tokai University for her enthusiasm and support, [...]
engnet-education.com becomes UniLiterate.com
Dear valued followers, readers and clients Recently, due to rather irritating circumstances and a fall-out with my registrar (123-reg) I have had to move my blog to a new domain. As they kept [...]
Research
This site, as any regular readers will have noticed, has been a little low on fresh updates for a while. I think I did well to get an interview with Phil Benson all about autonomy [...]
Interview with Philip Benson – Autonomy
This interview took place between Richard Pinner and Philip Benson via Skype. Philip Benson is a leading researcher and expert on Language Learner Autonomy. He is the author of several books on Autonomy and [...]
CLIL – Content and Language Integrated Learning
The field of CLIL has become a great passion of mine in the last few years, particularly since moving to Japan and working with Sophia University in Tokyo. Under the guidance of Dr. Makoto Ikeda, [...]
Phil Benson – Autonomy Lecture at TUJ
Reading Time: 4 minutesBenson’s own definition is the last one in the table, that learner autonomy is “a capacity to control learning.” He then went on to expand on this and to break the components of capacity and control down into how they relate to the learner and their context.
