Links vaguely linked to language education

I’m on a roll with the English-teaching related links today, so prepare to be overwhelmed. First of all my much loved International Herald Tribune (I now don’t bother with the Japan Times- 180 yen?!- or Daily Yomiuri if I can’t find a copy of my IHT and missed it when I went home and was reduced to reading the Guardian), seems to be having a language-linked themed edition today. We’ve got dying creole langugages in Colombia, the Orwellian uses of language of the CCP (not so unlike the recent “beautiful Japan” silliness of the LDP in Japan, recently scrapped, thank god), there might have been talking Neanderthals (think I might have taught one of those in my class with Bursa city council), and several others which I can’t find at the moment because it’s easier to pretend you are working while writing your blog than it is to do so while rustling a newspaper…

With lesson materials already written and blog links sorted, decided to switch off brain completely till Monday and just go for giggles. Like a lost key turning up when you’ve given up looking for it,

was surprised to find that Slate has several articles on education (was originally looking for Doonesbury cartoons now that Dilbert has gone into terminal decline), specifically the effect of class sizes and on hyperactive kids. Before the end of today I confidently expect that I will find a Viz cartoon on linguistics (lots of double entendres on “tongue”??)

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