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🧑🏻‍🏫CELTA trainer 💻Materials writer 🌐tldr-ELT.com

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Finnish the Sentence: The Magic of Transparent Languages If you find yourself in a Helsinki karaoke bar one night, fear not. There’s a good chance you’ll be able to bluff your way through a rendition of Ylivoimainen or any other Finnish pop song, effortl…

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28.11.2025 15:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Forget the 10% BS: our brains have 10x more storage capacity than we thought! It’s one of the most persistent myths about the human brain – that we only use 10% of its capacity. This long-held belief has been thoroughly debunked. However new research [there’s a p…

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26.11.2025 05:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Not Bad, Not Good: Nuanced Negation A look at how the brain processes negated adjectives, shifting meaning without fully inverting it.

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23.11.2025 19:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Faux Slang Prank is Dank A high-school teacher's made-up slang provides insights into spread of new language.

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15.11.2025 14:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Something Worth Crowing About In a further blow to our supposed superiority- crows appear capable of counting out loud, like a toddler.

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14.11.2025 05:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is it possible to form a thought without language? Prelinguistic cognition, or how our ancestors may have formed thoughts and solved problems before the development of language.

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09.11.2025 17:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Unpacking ChatGPT's Literary Style: Robotic Plagiarism or Ally? A new Cambridge study provides some useful insights into how students use ChatGPT for essay assistance & the telltale signs of AI-generated writing.

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06.11.2025 18:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Pregnant People" vs "Pregnant Women". Does it matter? Should we say "pregnant people" not just "women"? This post explores using gender-inclusive terms like "people with uteruses" to avoid marginalizing trans/non-binary individuals.

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03.11.2025 08:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Are your brain waves coming or going? New research shows brain waves travel backward when memorizing lists, but forward during recall. Rare look at neuron choreography by recording epilepsy patients' brains.

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01.11.2025 08:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Language’s Ability to Affect Health Outcomes Thought-provoking study shows how COVID-19 social media discussions & language patterns directly influenced real-world health behaviours and outcomes.

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29.10.2025 15:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Anglo-Saxon: Neutral Term or Coded Racism? Is "Anglo-Saxon" an innocuous descriptor or a loaded racial term? A look at the controversy, from the term's ties to white supremacy to recent moves to curb its usage in academia.

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26.10.2025 09:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Neanderthals probably never felt ‘over the moon’ Recent studies suggest, while Neanderthals had words & syntax, only modern humans could combine concepts metaphorically for abstract thought.

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23.10.2025 12:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Gospel Truth? Ethnologue's Linguistic Legacy Ethnologue collects comprehensive data on over 7,000 languages. The questionable origins of a valuable resource.

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15.10.2025 08:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Easter Island’s Rongorongo: Uncovering a Hidden Writing System Discover the mystery of Rongorongo, Easter Island's unique glyphs, and their implications for history and cultural understanding.

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11.10.2025 07:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Exploring Pronoun Usage and Ideology: Insights from Research The debate surrounding pronoun usage, particularly the shift towards gender-inclusive pronouns like “they,” is characteristic of broader societal shifts towards inclusivity. Recent rese…

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04.10.2025 09:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Has the Cat Got Your (Native) Tongue? Understanding Language Attrition Explore language attrition and its impact on native language fluency

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01.10.2025 10:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It’s not that I lack assertiveness, I just have a funny face! Recent research into the fascinating link between perceived facial dominance & student evaluations of teaching, has uncovered insights into gender biases in academia [surprise, surprise]. The s…

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22.09.2025 10:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, & German to my horse.” * see below for who said that- it wasn’t me! Ever wondered why some languages seem more attractive than others? According to Dr. Vineeta Chand, in an article in the Guardian, our perception of a la…

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15.09.2025 06:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In Antarctica, snow isn’t the only thing that drifts! Ever wondered how isolation affects accents? Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich analysed recordings made by participants at the British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera Resear…

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12.09.2025 10:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Colourful Research on Language Evolution Recent research sheds light on the fascinating interplay of language, perception & history in shaping colour vocabularies.

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29.08.2025 13:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ever lie awake at night wondering if Taylor Swift changes her accent when she sings different genres of music? [No, me neither]. A team of researchers from The University of Chester has analysed how her drawl alters when she performs country & pop songs. Their findings, presented at the Swiftposium academic conference, s…

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09.08.2025 11:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The pursuit of Equity An interesting interview with Yasuko Kanno, professor of Language Education at BU Wheelock (US) regarding her research on Achieving Equity for English Learners. English Learners (ELs) face entrench…

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01.08.2025 16:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Language Bias in the US: Exploring Linguistic Divide How language bias impacts justice and education in the US. Learn why embracing linguistic diversity is crucial in ELT classrooms. #LanguageDiversity #EducationEquity #Linguistics

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29.07.2025 15:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Memory Hacks: Spacing, Variety and the Goldilocks Zone New research reveals practical strategies to enhance memory retention through spaced learning, variability in materials, and the "Goldilocks Zone" for associative memories like word-translation pairs.

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28.07.2025 14:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Learning English translates into money! Learners' perceptions of how mastering English can lead to a salary boost. Insights for ELT teachers on language learning trends and strategies.

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22.07.2025 09:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Enhancing L2 Writing: Feedback Literacy & Resilience Insights Research into improving L2 writing instruction with insights on feedback literacy & resilience.

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29.06.2025 14:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tweet Talk: what birds can teach us about the evolution of language A recent study from the University of Tokyo reveals fascinating insights into the communication strategies of the Japanese tit (Parus minor), a small bird species. The Japanese tit has been observe…

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25.06.2025 09:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The conecction between Darwin & language evolution. Interesting research into why some words stand the test of time while others fade into obscurity.

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19.06.2025 11:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Hey teacher- leave those Zs alone’ A study by University of Michigan researchers finds that students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades. The in-depth analysis looked at over 30 million grading records to rev…

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12.06.2025 07:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Insights into Household Dynamics & Language Development Household composition's influence on language development in children.

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10.06.2025 07:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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