@regionally

EAP Teacher and Applied Linguist, currently working at a national university in the Middle East.

Joined July 2010
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Very much enjoying 'Research Genres' (Swales, 2004)
Anyone know of a good ethnography of literacy of an Arabian Gulf country (UAE, Oman, Saudi, Iraq etc)?
A lovely bit of #jargon I discovered recently: chronotopic lamination.
Wordbuildingopportunities http://wordr.org/
Finally got draft 1.1 of the #PhD proposal to my supervisor! Hoorah! Tomorrow, a bit of mindless reading for a change!
RT @VisualThesaurus: Long Live the Essay/The Essay Must Die http://bit.ly/alsamJ
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"in x c l n c u x l" 19th century textese! http://bit.ly/9a3k2I
Arabic alive and well, despite concerns. http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100813/REVIEW/708129994/1042
RT @paulmaglione: Why we mimic accents in immersive environments: our brains are built to empathise and affiliate http://bit.ly/9oIEaO
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Humans imitate aspects of speech we see http://bit.ly/djwcNf
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Resources necessary to save languages http://bit.ly/bb4R3y #indigenous #language
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Foreign Language Teaching Methods | UTexas Austin http://bit.ly/bmEOam /via @ielanguages
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"Yoom al 5amees elly ma ytla ya5ees" - a #gulfarabic saying, with the illocutionary force: enjoy your weekend!
Interested in learning more #gulfarabic
The language we speak can change the way we think about other people. : http://tinyurl.com/22mameq
Tribble's (2009) review of EAP textbooks. Useful classification of EAP trads: intellectual/rhetorical; social/genre; academic literacies.
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