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      How to train the ageing brain (14+ years for second language learners)
    Jan 18, 2010
    Great article from the NY Times that I read an edited UK version of...and the most important bit had been edited out!

    How do adult brains effectively learn new tricks? By being jolted out of their comfort zone when it comes to the methodology involved.

    Entitled 'How to train an ageing brain' it is very illuminating and there are clear links to previous research papers that have been discussed on this website.
      Voice recording on Facebook
    Dec 31, 2009
    We have a Facebook group and a fan page, all in about 1000+ members (at time of writing this) interested in EOT and improving their English.

    Facebook is now voice enabled and works with our ebooks beautifully because they are the only English courses designed to be used with social media.

    This is a conversation between me and an English teacher based in Brasil. Jamey is interested in using EOT in Palmas and I explain some stuff to him.
      English Out There teacher feedback
    Dec 1, 2009
    Here's an email string with a teacher who is a premium member of this website and uses the English Out There materials to teach.
      Why do we talk? Great TV programme
    Nov 11, 2009
    This programme jumps around a bit, but its conclusions support everything that Out There is about...social language learning.
      Using social media to help your students get real English practice
    Oct 1, 2009
    Here's a great question or two from a teacher who wants to enable her students to use social media to practice their English in a structured and focused way.  My answer is below.
      How not to do English Out There...
    Sep 30, 2009
    This is great feedback...and helps me to make a couple of really crucial points.
      Fair Trade English - protecting TEFL teachers
    Sep 22, 2009
    If things are so bad for TEFL teachers why not take international ELT in the direction of being a certifiable fair trade?  This is my email to the Fair Trade organisation.
      Why is it so hard to speak English sometimes?
    Sep 15, 2009
    Language learners the world over often experience a complete inability to get their words out the right way when they try to speak or just go blank and say nothing. Why is this and what can be done about it?
      EduFire, educhange and the means to an end...
    Sep 9, 2009
    EduFire the great online video teaching site has just announced $1.3m in funding. The clash of ideas, ideals and cold hard cash is an interesting topic.
      Out There materials teach you the way babies learn their first languages?
    Aug 11, 2009

    One of Stephen Krashen's newsletters alerted me to the work of Dr. Patricia Kuhl.  I found it fascinating and asked him some questions about it.  He sent me another paper which I have commented on here from the point of view of what I think Languages Out There does. I'm no neuro-scientist or professor of psycholinguistics...
     
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