Influencing policy (training slides from Fast Track Impact)
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3. Who is Mike Harrison? ESOL teacher Bromley College of Further and Higher Education
4. Why use drawing and sounds? http://www.flickr.com/photos/kurros/150160910/ araba ??? ??? Mike Yohimar Carla
5. ??? Why use drawing and sounds? motor çalıştırılıyor ??? Mike Yohimar Carla
6. Mentalese? Do people literally think in English [...] or are our thoughts couched in some [...] language of thought, and merely clothed in words whenever we need to communicate them to another listener? Pinker (1994)
15. Thank yous @carlaraguseo and @Yohimar for agreeing to appear in my imaginary Turkish lesson @IsılBoy @springrose12 (Tuba) @ErenNesrin @DaveDodgson for help with Turkish translations @burcuakyol and everyone involved at ISTEK for the chance to be here
16. Useful links and bibliography Free downloadable sound FX http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/ Posts on my blog http://bit.ly/mikedrawing (monsters) http://bit.ly/mikepoem (First Day At School) Pinker, S (1994/2000) The Language Instinct; Penguin pp47-78 Mike Harrison www.mikejharrison.com / @harrisonmike Mike Harrison’s Blog (Facebook)
17. Sentence to pictures and back again Write a simple sentence pass it on Second student draws a picture that represents the sentence, folds and passes on 3rd student guesses the original sentence from the picture