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My final-year students are graduating today. They'll be graduands for the duration of the morning and afternoon, and by around 3.30pm th...

I am currently mired in marking. As you know, I keep note of which mistakes are currently popular. One that I spotted recently was a sort of...

This isn't a post, just a link. It's a post by someone who criticises Michael Rosen. I won't have this. Michael Rosen tirelessly...

Lately, perhaps as a reflex of the news that there will soon be a TEF , articles have often included advice on how to do lecturing better.  ...

Sorry for the non-posting lately. Things have got a bit manic as summer draws to an end and I try to finish off all my various research proj...

I teach, among other things, first-year syntax seminars. I've found that this year's cohort are pretty good at knowing the basic par...

Not so long ago, we told students off for using phones in seminars. Today I found myself encouraging the use of phones. What is the world co...

Someone on a blog I read the other day posted this question, asking for advice: Does anyone know any tricks to know when English -ed is p...

I think there is this idea that a seminar is a place for lively discussion and informed debate. In practice, it's not like that. More of...

In my first-year introductory seminar, I had the students coming up with new onomatopoeic words, which we then tried to guess the meaning of...

A couple of weeks ago (because I am slow to get round to blogging), that Neville Gwynne person was on the BBC again talking his usual nonsen...

Recently, English children aged 10-11 had to take their SATs (tests that children take every few years to check the school isn't useless...

Today was the final lecture in my semantics module. There's still an assignment to mark, but apart from that I'm all done with it fo...

We all know that linguists love to swear and lecturers love to shock their new students, so yesterday in my introductory lecture on morpholo...

There's an article on the Guardian today (one of several recently) about free online university courses. These are offered by companies...

I've been at the faculty Learning and Teaching Forum this afternoon. I don't know what I was expecting, but I wasn't expecting t...

This is possibly a world first. I find it hard to turn down work, because the twin draws of money and experience are irresistible to me, and...

I teach syntax seminars to first-year students. We follow Noel Burton-Roberts' Analysing Sentences , which I think is a decent introduct...

My job for today is to set exam questions for my portion of a first-year module. I'm in charge of the phonology bit (lord knows why) so ...

I'm teaching some syntax revision sessions yesterday and today, for students who have to resit first year syntax. Yesterday only one stu...