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New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin
New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin via Tumblr http://jesusromerotrillo.tumblr.com/post/64389947057
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Sexist language: it’s every man for him or herself | Mind your language
The author of Winnie-the-Pooh thought ‘he or she’ should be replaced by ‘heesh’, but there’s nothing wrong with singular ‘they’ As long ago as 1911, the American writer Ambrose Bierce, in his satirical The Devil’s Dictionary, objected to Miss – “a title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the […]
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A million reasons to improve teacher quality (The Economist)
Education A million reasons to improve teacher quality Oct 16th 2013, 17:07 by R.A. | LONDON THIS week’s Free exchange column looks at a fascinating bit of statistical work on the value of a good teacher. Economists Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff obtained a massive data set from a large, urban school system, which covered 2.5m […]
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The self-righteous slang police are a real pain, innit?
Yesterday Harris Academy in Norwood banned several slang words from its halls, including “coz”, “aint”, “like”, and “you woz”. Twitter didn’t like it one bit. “The Harris Academy in Norwood has started banning words.” wrote one user “F–––– them obviously”. “The f–––wits at Harris Academy that go around banning words have more in common with […]
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Conference: Literacy across the curriculum in different languages and contexts
Madrid, 17-19 October 2013 Access to the conference webpage
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More Ugly Disagreements
It’s been barely a month since my last litany of subject-verb agreement errors, but the file is overflowing once again. The topic is tedious, the errors exasperating. Readers notice and find it hard to understand why we make so many rather rudimentary mistakes. A good question. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/15/more-ugly-disagreements/