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MAT 马特MAT 马特

Professional Observations: Teaching and Assessing English in China

March 22, 2015 by MAT 马特

Having worked in English language education, teaching and assessment in China for over twelve years, I have noticed certain trends in the language difficulties Chinese learners of English experience. I share them here as a resource for other English teachers. I will no doubt update this post a few times as this is by no … Read more

Categories English Language & Literacy Education

Start of a new era as my thesis is accepted

May 10, 2014 by MAT 马特

How good it is to have no deadline coming up! My doctoral (EdD) thesis was accepted by the Open University last week and I am now free to get on with all the creative projects that have been on hold for the last year and a half, such as the construction of this website 🙂 … Read more

Categories English Language & Literacy Education 1 Comment
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    Nice work! Here's a link to our mythology archive but I'm not sure if Hercules...
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    The people who designed it probably tried to design something they could do.
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    Extra clue: Lemon is very scatterbrained.
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