Archive for the ‘Pragmatics’ Category

In my quest to find all the adjectives you can possibly use to describe a textbook (actually, only the clean ones…) I have made a little trip to the other side of TEFL, where the number of citations is what matters rather than how few students complain about your lessons and where footnotes are considered a proof of intellect rather than a proof of bad writing style. Although it seems TEFL academics have as little grasp of basic statistics and an impactful opening sentence as ever, my venture into online academia was mainly a bracing experience (in a “watching avant garde theatre in a language you don’t understand” kind of way) and I only found my eyes glazing over once or twice. Anyway, so you don’t have to sully yourself with spending online time reading too many articles by men with PhDs and socks with sandals, here are the highlights for you:

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