Each year I do a round up of the most viewed blog posts (not including older posts prior to 2024, since many of these are also looked at). I don’t blog as prolifically as I used to, but even so I generally put out roughly five posts a month. When I post, the readership I have in mind is both teachers in training and experienced teachers who may be interested in issues around research, book reviews, classroom pedagogy and classroom materials. I also use the blog as a marketing tool, notably when I post adapted extracts of published books. Incidentally, apart from blogging, I’ve been busy working on three publications this year: the two GCSE workbooks with Gianfranco Conti and the A-level handbook with Steve Glover. I addition I wrote a chapter for the latest edition of the Pachler and Redondo (eds) book for trainees, and did some work reviewing NCLE hub training materials. Needless to say, I’ve spent a good deal of time writing resources for frenchteacher.net. Chat GPT has enabled me to...
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