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What can you practise in English lessons?

May 04, 2018 | Category: English
Over my last two posts I've argued that, contrary to popular opinion, English is not a 'skills based' subject. In fact, what appear to be skills are actually composed on many thousands of individual c...
#practice #Daisy Christodoulou #essay writing #The Writing Revolution

What do we mean by 'skills'?

Nov 10, 2016 | Category: Featured
Any definition of skills depends on knowledge. Joe Kirby has written persuasively about skills and knowledge forming a double helix - inseparably intertwined and mutually interdependent. This is defin...
#creativity #skills #essay writing #procedural knowledge #propositional knowledge #tacit knowledge

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