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This TED talk is about the question formation technique which we experimented with on ADS/NZ this year.

This makes it a bit more clear. You did this as an orientation activity, right? I think we should do it earlier and more often.

Over 200 free online courses from a range of universities.

I have a friend who took one of these free courses (statistics) and was very impressed.

Here's the article that was referred to in one of our meetings. Interestingly (at least to me) the writer (Alexis) was in one of the groups I coached online.

What do you think of this website which is to help with speed reading? Is it relevant for second language learners? You can adjust the speed and the chunking but the chunking is random, not natural chunks that might occur. When I tried it I could really see how if I didn't use my 'inner voice' I could read so much faster. Of course our students tend to be vocalizing, not only using their inner voice and maybe this is necessary for word recognition?

I think your right about not using the inner voice helping with speed. What about the odd chunking though? It caused me one or two problems and one thing I like about speed reading is that it helps students to see more natural chunks like noun phrases, verbs and infinitives and things like that. It might be a good resource we can recommend for SDL.

Troy sent this article through wondering it if would be good for CLIL IPC.