Language
Framing ideas
The idea of 'framing' is that language can create a frame around the basic statement of ideas ... and this frame will modify the way that the audience understands or interprets the basic statements. Consider...
Language
Language of caution
In order to cope effectively with studying a complex subject, students need to be able to handle the Language of Caution. For instance, a capable Economics student might think ... . . However, if this...
Language
Degrees of certainty
It is clear that the certainty, accuracy and authority of a statement all depend on specific elements of language - the elements that we have grouped under the heading Language of Caution. Let us now...
eBook
TASKS Sci + Tech + Econ
The ingenuity of symbiosis ... the text that forms the basis of this page explores the clever ways in which science used economics, and economics used science, for mutual benefits. Nothing more ingenious...
Building a programme
Nov 2022, reviewed
It is well worth downloading the whole Report, and at least skimming through it. The Report is a comprehensive and detailed study of student performance, and so you can use it as a checklist to be sure...
Assessment
News report
context, audience, purpose - * in a way, the 'context' of a news report is actually the point of a news report, its main content - a news report describes and explains the very context that makes it necessary....
Blog
About ChatGPT Free
The AI system ChatGPT is making waves. Launched just in November 2022, it has prompted all sorts of reactions in the world of education, some hostile and some favourable. InThinking authors have been...
Language
The qBank Free
The qBank feature is a data-base of question items for exercising and drilling specific points of grammar. The software that this site provides makes it possible to > produce quickly and easily grammar...
Blog
News report? Article? Free
There has been some discussion in the Comments section of the site recently about what distinctions might be made between a ‘news report’ and a ‘news article’. So, people ask, what instructions should...
Language
Spanish Free
Analía Dobboletta works at Asociación Rosarina de Cultura Inglesa, Rosario, Argentina, and is a highly experienced English B examiner. One of the aspects of L2 learning that may pose a serious challenge...