According to a report on ESPN.com this morning, the LPGA will require players to be “effective in English starting in 2009.”
I don’t follow golf, so I’m not sure what exactly the LPGA is thinking on this one (are English speakers losing too often to their international counterparts?) but it seems ridiculous. Other sports leagues which [...]

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A colleague of ours, Joe Dale, from the Isle of Wight, posted this video clip to his blog, and it has been making its rounds throughout the language-learning related blogosphere.
As we here in the US savor what for some is the last weekend of summer and calm before the fall semester frenzy [...]

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I was talking with a student who works in our center on Friday and he reported that he had slept about 2 hours in the past 24 or so, studying hard, and yet he was still not caught up on the work he had been assigned to do for the end of the semester. [...]

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Yes it has been a while since I have blogged, I admit it. There is this pesky little thing called the end of the semester that we are dealing with which, as we all know, is the time when technology (yes I am talking to you Dell Profiles) and time sort of collapse and [...]

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Prior to coming to my current job in higher ed and language learning technology, I taught in a grade school. Grades 7-12 to be exact. The wonder years. (I now realize how wonderful they are, and how awesome my colleagues were then, now that I have kids of my own in that age [...]

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