ELT Buzz Digest - Jan. 19th

All the "buzz" in English language teaching this week.

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Dear Teachers,

Find below our weekly digest for your browsing pleasure.

My reading tip this week is Geoff Jordan’s post about emergentism, input and noticing. He describes these and notes for us their weaknesses as theories of how learners turn sounds into language. A lot to process and it underlines how we still don’t have a firm, strong theory of how language “blooms” in each person - especially a 2nd language learner. My own thought is that the answer certainly isn’t “memory” and remembering language (a jab at the short term cram/test industry) - I’ll leave it at that!

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Best,
David - ELT-Buzzer-In-Chief

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• Constructing AI in education - Code Acts In Education

• Humanities cuts leave us defenceless in the age of AI

• Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core - Futurism

• The 7 Rs of Curriculum - Poster.

• 2026 Won’t Save Us! (Only We Can Save Ourselves.)

• The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us

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• Emergentism, Input, Noticing and Grammar - Geoff Jordan

• You Think You Want Media Literacy… Do You?

• Report: In Education, Risks Of AI Overshadow The Benefits

• Thoughts from an ELT writer“

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• Two Truths & AI | Common Sense Education

• Flashcards 4 Teaching

• BBC Audio | The Global Story | The death of reading

• You Can’t AI-Proof the Classroom, Experts Say. Get Creative Instead.

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Video Lesson Of The Week - The Winter Olympics

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