Lexical Leo
@leoselivan
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I teach EFL, train teachers and editors, speak at conferences and write books (Lexical Grammar, CUP; Alternative Assessment, Delta).
Tel Aviv
Joined November 2011
The "hard" decisions faced while editing a kids' ed video script:. - Should they sit in a circle or semi-circle?.- Interviewer: on or off camera?.- How do we make dialogs - about Mei's 10-hr study day in China to Amar's dream while working two jobs - less stilted? . Love my job!.
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Not carried out on #EFL / #ESL (or any #language learners for that matter), but the results can easily be - and indeed should be - applied to #L2 learning .#elt #mfltwitterati.
What 10 minutes a week can do.Want your students to really learn, not just cram and forget? Mix up topics in quizzes and have them recall from memory. It feels harder — and that's exactly why it works. #RetrievalPractice #Interleaving #EduTwitter.
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“Today (04–11 May)” – since when does a day last a week?.Even this update is just another excuse to plug the app: .“Pax are advised to download the Ryanair app” What's the point if both app + site showed flight as scheduled. Then you open check-in, which usually means it’s flying
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Gotta admire @Ryanair Opens check-in 24h before, cancels flight 16h before. FR838 today at 10am - cancelled yesterday at 6pm. Too late to cancel hotels, but apparently not enough for Ryanair to offer any compensation. Not even the usual (insulting) +10% voucher.
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RT @jimscriv: Jonathan Marks is running a free webinar on "The Secret Lives of Consonant Clusters" for the IATEFL Pron Special Interest Gro….
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RT @MacmillanELT: What were you told in your teacher training that turned out to be a myth? 🧐 . We asked ELT teachers and the answers might….
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Classic!.
Without grammar little can be conveyed. Without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed - David Wilkins(1972)
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Fiona Mauchline (no longer on X) on why learners, especially young learners, need empathetic human teachers | Interaction, motivation and learning: a match made in heaven at #IATEFL2025
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Some more (misrepresented) grammar points that we need to talk about - hopefully next year @BrunoLeys at #IATEFL2025 .P.S. If you're wondering about the title, it's a line from a poem by A. Marvell
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Frequency of the present cont./progressive in the corpus, which often run counter to the way it's taught in #ELT .@BrunoLeys at #IATEFL2025.#reallyrealgrammar
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"What's the frequency, Kenneth?" - @BrunoLeys starting his #IATEFL2025 session on frequency in grammar teaching with some (ridiculous) examples of the Passive Voice he has found in published #ELT materials. Google them if you don't believe it.
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Interestingly she cites Uchida's (2024) study, which showed that LLMs are unreliable when it comes to collocations (see photo in the previous tweet). In his recent article, King of Corpora Mark Davies noted that collocations was one of the things LLMs were particularly good at!.
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Dr Lee McCallum (@EdinburghUni) at #IATEFL2025 with "Using #LLM for #corpuslinguistics research: promise, disappointment and progression". For me, it's been the first two so far - still waiting for progression.
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Interestingly she cites Uchida's (2024) study, which showed that LLMs are unreliable when it comes to collocations (see photo in the previous tweet). In his recent article, King of Corpora Mark Davies noted that collocations was one of the things LLMs were particularly good at!.
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Dr Lee McCallum (@EdinburghUni) at #IATEFL2025 with "Using #LLM for #corpuslinguistics research: promise, disappointment and progression". For me, it's been the first two so far - still waiting for progression.
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Emma Flynn (@dublintefl) suggesting an alternative framework to the comprehension approach (PWP) to teaching listening at @IATEFL2025
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Emma Flynn from @dublintefl citing some influential listening skills gurus who focus on the process-based approach to teaching listening #iatefl2025
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