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Lovely day for a stout

Some time ago a colleague, checking a text I had written, spotted a spelling mistake in a passage in which I had referred to an advertising slogan: Guiness is good for you. The colleague pointed out the Guinness is spelt … Continue reading

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Asian competitiveness

In language teaching classes, German students tend to see that it makes sense to use different form of correction such as teacher-correction, peer-correction or self-correction. Of the three, peer-correction tends to be the less popular. A Korean student, during an … Continue reading

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