http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/ IATEFL TTEd SIG Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:38:22 GMT Dennis Newson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3920 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3920 Martin, Thanks greatly, and I didn't notice the shirt. Fascinating, and it is clear I'm definitely not a "scientific" writer. I know millions have to play the Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:58:17 GMT Martin McMorrow http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3919 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3919 Hi again from balmy Auckland, If you have students who are writing essays, literature reviews etc, perhaps they might find the following video presentation Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:29:32 GMT Natasha Jovanovich http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3918 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3918 Hello Martin and all, I remember a recent BBC news / I think it was BBC but I am unsure ?/ that teenagers are increasingly putting their lives at risk due to Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:05:48 GMT Martin McMorrow http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3917 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3917 Further to our discussion on technology in the classroom, here's a telling little snippet from today's 'New Zealand Herald': A student at an unnamed North Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:55:15 GMT St http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3916 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3916 Hi again .. from a balmy early summer's evening here in Auckland .. where we'll have to wait till 8 pm or so till it's dark enough for our Nov 5th fireworks Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:24:05 GMT Joel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3915 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3915 r.e. European Union funded education project ? ? ARGuing for Multilingual Motivation in Web 2.0? (ARGuing) is a European Union education project. ? The Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:53:14 GMT Dennis Newson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3913 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3913 On Monday 2 November, 2009 on YLTSIG Andrew Wright will field the list's last planned email discussion this year - on STORYTELLING. If you would like to take Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:04:55 GMT Dindy Drury http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3912 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3912 Dear Martin et al I have colleagues here who are working on new word lists  -BNL -(can be seen on Tom Cobb's lextutor site)  - and they have put together Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:00:15 GMT Dindy Drury http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3911 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3911 Well yes - loads of qustions, but she would need a week to answer them all.  As you say Martin, great basic principles - thanks so much for organising this. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:59:36 GMT Martin McMorrow http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3909 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3909 Thanks for that, Darren. Wonderful idea, your site! Paul Nation gave a very well-received plenary at our teachers' conference here in Auckland last year. He Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:40:18 GMT darren http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3908 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3908 As we are talking about vocabulary, I thought this might be of interest. I interviewed Paul Nation last Sunday, fairly generally, about his research and the Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:13:46 GMT Robert Ledbury http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3907 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3907 Martin, Some useful websites attached and at http://www.geocities.com/vance_stevens/textanal.htm Regards, Rob ... -- Robert Ledbury Teacher Trainer School of Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:42:29 GMT Martin McMorrow http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3906 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3906 Thanks again, Batia, for that useful summary of general principles. We're drawing near to the end of our week's discussion (actually, here in NZ, we're already Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:51:59 GMT Christopher Hare http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3905 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3905 Thanks to all of you (all British English speakers, incidentally) who responded to the questions below. I was the odd one out - you all recognised the idiom, Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:51:39 GMT Christopher Hare http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3904 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttedsig/message/3904 Re everyone's contributions so far on recycling and testing vocabulary: it occurs to me that in many ways what we're discussing here is a continuum (if we were