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I teach EFL (Reading, Writing, literature, British culture) at university level in Japan.  I’ll focus on what I do in the classroom which will be TPRS for my pure EFL classes, forays into teaching academic writing and literature, and sometimes into tips and tricks I’ve found useful to manage my work (e.g. time management and simla).

A bit of history.

This blog started as a log of my attempts to introduce my students to the joys of autonomous i.e. self-directed language-learning, which was basically the story of one failure after another since I started in 2005. That blog ground to a halt in October 2007.

I resurrected it in October 2009, mainly to learn how to import a Blogger blog into WordPress and to give autonblogger it’s own domain.

From November 1st, 2009 (today), I’ll blog about new directions  I’m taking in teaching English, which may take me away from “autonomy” or self-directed learning, but I’m keeping the “Autonoblogger” name ‘cos I like it.

The old Blogger blog had 32,704 visitors  June 14, 2005-Nov. 1, 2009



 

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