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"Welcome to my website. It contains details of my books, articles, and other materials, along with some biodata. Books and articles are listed on two general pages in chronological order, and are also classified under fifteen themes. The articles are downloadable - apart from a few cases where I no longer have a copy (please get in touch if you can supply copy for these missing links)."

Article highlighting the amazing things MFL teachers are doing in the UK with technology. Making language teachers look fab - way to go team!

Wikimini est une encyclopédie en ligne écrite par des enfants et des adolescents. Elle est gratuite et compte actuellement 1 007 articles et 1 544 Wikiminautes! (mars 2009)

not very original article-nothing new there but interesting comments...

I have just uploaded a couple of videos onto youtube going through some German grammar. At the moment I have done accusative and dative pronouns and adjective endings following indefinite articles.

Very professional explanation.

Wheeler reports on findings that "Speaking two languages confers lifelong cognitive rewards that spread far beyond the improved ability to communicate" (¶1), and "The chief benefit of being bilingual is stronger 'executive control,' ... the chief building block of higher thought" (¶5). Wheeler, David L. (2011). Being bilingual: beneficial workout for the brain. Chronicle of Higher Education, Research: February 20, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2011. from http://chronicle.com/article/Being-Bilingual-Beneficial/126462/

This is a wonderful article about the consumption of chocolate in Europe. It is a great resource to use with your students when discussing nutrition, holidays, or conversions.

What cloud tool do you like more to keep your files secure in the cloud ? Leave a comment after you read article

Flipping Blooms Taxonomy. Great article. Every time we ask students to use a new structure to talk about themselves and then let them figure out why the sentence order is what it is, we arepracticing this. We see greater results as they move to higher levels of production making more errors but experimenting and learning from their mistakes in production.

Popular and unpopular dialects in Germany.  Blog comment based on a German newspaper article.

Various interesting articles related to SM and FLL. On the attractiveness of social media for language learning: a look at the state of the art  Facebook-ing and the Social Generation: A New Era of Language Learning  Language Learners' "Willingness to Communicate" through Livemocha.com Online gaming as sociable media

my article is on p54

Being bilingual. Nice article and infographic.

More on the same topic: www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08/bilingual-brain-cognitive-flexibility_n_2432948.html