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Welcome to the rambling thoughts of a 50 year old languages teacher with too much time on his hands, most of it spent in the kitchen. If you have any comments or questions about language learning or resources please email or follow me on twitter @dominic_mcg

Monday, 16 May 2011

Maslow, Motivation, and Me.

Last year at Teachmeet North East , Darren Mead recommended I read a book by Geoff Petty , Evidence-based Teaching . I did and it is very g...

Monday, 9 May 2011

The best laid plans....

Every good teacher, and even some bad ones, will always have a back up plan. You never know what disaster may ruin even the best planned les...

Wednesday, 20 April 2011

Brits refuse to learn foreign languages.

My heart sank as I read this article from the Daily Mail this morning. I'm not a regular reader of the Daily Mail, honest. I have set ...

Tuesday, 19 April 2011

Subliminal language learning - an update.

I'm now two thirds into my "learn Icelandic subliminally" project. I'm afraid to say that it does not seem to be working. ...

Monday, 11 April 2011

Cultural differences - a student's-eye view.

Four weeks ago, a colleague and I took a party of 18 A level students (aged 16-18) from Hartlepool , in the north east of England, to Paris ...

Monday, 4 April 2011

Banning mobile telephones.

Today the UK's coalition government announced that schools will be given greater powers to deal with unruly students. This will include ...

Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Are 100 words enough?

Apparently, the current England football manager and Postman Pat's stunt double, Fabio Capello , whose name literally translates into En...

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