ELT365 · Day 209 — Useful written feedback
Idea — Effective feedback is selective and forward-looking: praise something, target one or two priorities, and give a concrete next step. Covering a script in red…
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ELT365 · Day 153 — Top-down and bottom-up, working together
Idea — Skilled listeners and readers swing between two processes: bottom-up (decoding the actual words and sounds) and top-down (using knowledge of the world and the…
ReadELT365 · Day 208 — Correction codes for writing
Idea — Marking every error overwhelms learners and does the work for them. A correction code (Sp = spelling, WO = word order, T = tense)…
ReadELT365 · Day 152 — Receptive skills: what listening really is
Idea — Listening is active meaning-building, not passive reception. Learners run two processes at once: bottom-up (decoding sounds and words) and top-down (using context and expectation…
ReadELT365 · Day 207 — Collaborative writing
Idea — Writing together — in pairs or groups — surfaces language choices through discussion, shares the load, and lets learners learn from each other before…
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Feedback & Complaint Guidelines Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. This document outlines how to provide feedback, report issues, or lodge complaints…
ReadELT365 · Day 206 — Freer and creative writing
Idea — Freer writing hands learners the topic and lets them shape the text themselves, building fluency and ownership. It follows controlled practice, once the form…
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Complete Publishing Automation Toolkit This document describes all the tools, scripts, and integrations available for sourovdeb.com. 1. Core Tools (Installed) Python Desktop App File: tools/wp-desktop.py Type:…
ReadELT365 · Day 205 — Controlled writing tasks
Idea — Controlled writing — gap-fills, sentence transformation, guided paragraphs — practises form with heavy support and a low error risk. It is the writing equivalent…
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La Réunion sits in the Indian Ocean, 9,000 kilometres from Paris and about as far from the London publishing world as a French territory can get.…
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