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RT @englishraven: Just blogged: Confessions of a less than perfect teacher... http://3.ly/Fhq 12:07 AM Dec 7th from web
@englishraven Oh god, is "false intermediate" a level now? I used that as a joke about my J-ability recently! 1:06 AM Nov 24th from web in reply to englishraven
@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" 1:04 AM Nov 24th from web in reply to englishraven
@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. 12:55 AM Nov 24th from web in reply to englishraven
Great night, gents! Hope you got a pic w/ the J-gyarus at the next table Scott! @StevenHerder http://pic.gd/3eacdb @thornburyscott 4:12 PM Nov 23rd from Tweetie
@englishraven Cheers, Jason. You should try to make it to JALT sometime! 4:08 PM Nov 23rd from Tweetie in reply to englishraven
Brilliant! Using screen capture vid for grading & commenting on student essays. http://bit.ly/7uTi6R RT @sethdickens 4:05 PM Nov 22nd from Tweetie
@englishraven Whodunit launch went well, thx. Lots of buzz re CC eBook coming Jan 20th. How's your pay-choice model going? Youdunit 1st! ;-) 7:51 PM Nov 21st from Tweetie in reply to englishraven
James Lantolf #jalt2009 Sorry guys, my batt running out... Can't keep up the tweets on this plenary. 5:33 PM Nov 21st from Tweetie
James Lantolf #jalt2009 plenary. Reviewing lit on gap btween research & practice... From 1976 to 2007 still exists 5:28 PM Nov 21st from Tweetie
James Lantolf #jalt2009 plenary. Crisis in SLA between research and pedagogy.. How to deal with? 5:23 PM Nov 21st from Tweetie
James Lantolf #jalt2009 plenary. Tapestry metaphor... The dialectic of weaving... Creating unity from opposite thread directions 5:21 PM Nov 21st from Tweetie
James Lantolf #jalt2009 plenary. Grammar constructs ie "going to" can be metaphorized from physical world 5:17 PM Nov 21st from Tweetie
James Lantolf #jalt2009 plenary. "the importance of metaphors for thinking... ie arguments are conceptualized as 'war'" 5:15 PM Nov 21st from Tweetie
James Lantolf #jalt2009 plenary: The dialectics of instructed 2nd language development. Starting now. 5:11 PM Nov 21st from Tweetie
@Thornburyscott #jalt2009 plenary: fantastic talk, Twitter can't do justice! 6:00 PM Nov 20th from Tweetie
@Thornburyscott Seven Ways of Looking at grammar- my oops: 5 texture, 6 collocation, 7 emergent language #jalt2009 5:57 PM Nov 20th from Tweetie
@Thornburyscott Plenary. "slow release" grammar - internalized collocations keep on "releasing" new meanings #jalt2009 5:48 PM Nov 20th from Tweetie
@gotanda I hope he's leading up to grammar being BOTH waves and particles. I like the angle. #jalt2009 5:45 PM Nov 20th from Tweetie in reply to gotanda
@Thornburyscott Seven Ways of Looking at grammar (JALT plenary) 7. Grammar as collocation #jalt2009 5:43 PM Nov 20th from Tweetie

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Name Marcos Benevides
Location Osaka
Web http://www.widget...
Bio EFL teacher in Japan, coursebook writer: Widgets (Pearson Longman), Whodunit (Abax), Creative Commons enthusiast

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