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Presentations
Developing independent learners through the use of standardised tests (JALT 2017)
Rooms within the heart: Tanka as a medium for cultural exchange, a short paper (A Festival of Ideas Literature in Language Teaching Conference, Kyoto, Japan, 2016)
Short Poetry: finding a voice between the words (Literature in Language Teaching Conference, September 2014)
Students’ Stories of the Extensive Reading Experience (Nara JALT, April 2014)
From Anxiety to Appreciation: using videos as a tool for personal and program development (JALT 2013)
Writers’ Workshop in the Reading Class (MyShare, 2013 follow up post)
Writers’ Workshop Method in the Reading Classroom (Kyoto JALT MyShare, 2013)
Even a Native Speaker Stops Sometimes (CLESOL 2012)
Articles
The Little Things (ERJ, July 2018)
Shaken not stirred: Seven ways to start your class differently (ETAS Journal, Spring 2017)
The Little Things (ERJ, May 2017)
Dialogues: Moving away from the words on the page in five easy steps (ETAS Journal, Summer 2015)
Extensive reading in theory and in practice (Modern English Teacher, January 2015)
Close and Careful but not Cautious: Using the Writer’s Workshop Method in the Reading Classroom (LiLT Journal 3.1, November 2014)
Read Think Write, an Extensive Reading activity (ERJ, May 2014)
From classroom noise to the Language of Learning (ETAS Journal, Winter 2013)
Pictogloss: a student-driven process of activity development (ETAS Journal, Winter 2012)
This is (More Than) Just a Test (The English Connection, Summer 2012)
Because we love a good story: using short stories in the language classroom (Australia English Journal, 2012)
Even a Native Speaker Stops Sometimes (my first effort at writing an article)
iTDi Posts
iTDi Author Page
Learning is Learning: principles for student-learning and teacher-learning (June, 2018)
Poetry Collaboration (February, 2016)
The Why of Testing (March, 2015)
Hand Holding Most Definitely Allowed (More Creative Writing Issue, April 2014)
PLN in 2013 (13 for 2014 Issue, January 2014)
Road Posts Along the Way (Special Needs Issue, March 2013)
Watch Me, watch me (Observation Issue, November 2013)
Baby Shoes (Music, Stories, and Magic Issue, May 2013)
Seeing Through the Cracks (Learning to See Issue, June 2013)
Extensive Reading Stuff
Research-y Evidence Supporting Extensive Reading in an ELF Setting (-1)
High Frequency Sight Word Lists
Useful Extensive Reading Links
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