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  1. RT @englishraven: Just blogged: Confessions of a less than perfect teacher... http://3.ly/Fhq
  2. @englishraven Oh god, is "false intermediate" a level now? I used that as a joke about my J-ability recently!
  3. @englishraven Low expectat'ns is the paradigm here. Hard to shift. Hear it a lot re Widgets: "Yah, but it wouldnt work with MY students"
  4. @englishraven "J- Ss were "too low level" for Boost" Don't get me startd on that! Biggst load of crap IMO. Low expectations IS the prob.
  5. Great night, gents! Hope you got a pic w/ the J-gyarus at the next table Scott! @StevenHerder http://pic.gd/3eacdb @thornburyscott
  6. @englishraven Cheers, Jason. You should try to make it to JALT sometime!
  7. Brilliant! Using screen capture vid for grading & commenting on student essays. http://bit.ly/7uTi6R RT @sethdickens
  8. @englishraven Whodunit launch went well, thx. Lots of buzz re CC eBook coming Jan 20th. How's your pay-choice model going? Youdunit 1st! ;-)
  9. James Lantolf #jalt2009 Sorry guys, my batt running out... Can't keep up the tweets on this plenary.
  10. James Lantolf #jalt2009 plenary. Reviewing lit on gap btween research & practice... From 1976 to 2007 still exists
  11. James Lantolf #jalt2009 plenary. Crisis in SLA between research and pedagogy.. How to deal with?
  12. James Lantolf #jalt2009 plenary. Tapestry metaphor... The dialectic of weaving... Creating unity from opposite thread directions
  13. James Lantolf #jalt2009 plenary. Grammar constructs ie "going to" can be metaphorized from physical world
  14. James Lantolf #jalt2009 plenary. "the importance of metaphors for thinking... ie arguments are conceptualized as 'war'"
  15. James Lantolf #jalt2009 plenary: The dialectics of instructed 2nd language development. Starting now.
  16. @Thornburyscott #jalt2009 plenary: fantastic talk, Twitter can't do justice!
  17. @Thornburyscott Seven Ways of Looking at grammar- my oops: 5 texture, 6 collocation, 7 emergent language #jalt2009
  18. @Thornburyscott Plenary. "slow release" grammar - internalized collocations keep on "releasing" new meanings #jalt2009
  19. @gotanda I hope he's leading up to grammar being BOTH waves and particles. I like the angle. #jalt2009
  20. @Thornburyscott Seven Ways of Looking at grammar (JALT plenary) 7. Grammar as collocation #jalt2009