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What is language: a canine perspective

October 13, 2024 Blog
Csilla Jaray-Benn, Andreas Grundtvig and Susan Holden in Grenoble, 2019

Remembering Susan Holden

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GEPTED – Putting pragmatics into practice in the elt classroom

August 15, 2021 Uncategorized
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Untangling why, when, how and on what ‘it depends!’

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Notes from Bordeaux

June 18, 2021 Uncategorized
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Suffen about Suffolk – digging up the origins of English

January 29, 2021 Uncategorized
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The bits in between

December 22, 2020 Blog
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What is language: a canine perspective

October 13, 2024
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My wife, Alma, and I live with two dogs: Ronja and Mona, the English Springer Spaniels. Their antics in our home and the daily errands we run around to care for them frequently stop me in my tracks, prompting deep contemplation about the nature of communi ...

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Csilla Jaray-Benn, Andreas Grundtvig and Susan Holden in Grenoble, 2019

Remembering Susan Holden

October 21, 2023
by Andreas Grundtvig with No Comment Blog

Susan Holden was an editor, publisher, author, public speaker, councillor, teacher, teacher trainer and to me, she was a dear friend. I only knew her for what was to become the latter years of her life, nevertheless the influence she had upon mine was rem ...

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English is Context 2022 Finalist – ELTons Innovation in Teacher Resources

September 27, 2022
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Delighted to be a Finalist in the category Innovation in Teacher Resources at the 2022 ELTons. "English is Context by Andreas Grundtvig, was inspired by Geoffrey Leech’s “Principles of Pragmatics”. In an eye-opening workshop on the idea of “how utterance ...

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GEPTED – Putting pragmatics into practice in the elt classroom

August 15, 2021
by Andreas Grundtvig with No Comment Uncategorized

A 'paper' for the Factualty of Languages, Literature and Linguistics at Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil Recorded 26 July 2021, from Lake Sartai, Lithuania - isten out for 'the bird(s)' 15:25To watch the video see: https://www.youtube.com ...

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Untangling why, when, how and on what ‘it depends!’

June 22, 2021
by Andreas Grundtvig with One Comment Uncategorized

I'm delighted to share the following guest post from my friend Jade Blue.Book review: English is Context. Andreas Grundtvig, 2021. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been telling my students ‘context is everything’.  It’s a rare occasion when I don’t pre ...

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Notes from Bordeaux

June 18, 2021
by Andreas Grundtvig with No Comment Uncategorized

The beautiful notes of Dianne Chen Seguí, made during my workshop for TESOL France (Bordeaux) on 16 March, 2019. In this workshop I tried out several of the activities which were later to become English is Context - Practical pragmatics for clear communic ...

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English is Context – Practical pragmatics for clear communication (DELTA)

April 3, 2021
by Andreas Grundtvig with 3 Comments Uncategorized

"English is Context is as enjoyable to read as it will be enjoyable to teach. It is amusing, yet with authority; provocative, yet without giving offence; unexpected, yet with clarity. English is Context helps teachers and, what is hugely important, helps ...

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A question of context – ETp March 2021

March 9, 2021
by Andreas Grundtvig with No Comment Uncategorized

Context, meaning the circumstance and the conditions present at the time of speaking, is as integral to language as language is to context.This is no secret, nor is it rocket science. Yet for many of our learners it might just as well be.Perhaps similar t ...

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Suffen about Suffolk – digging up the origins of English

January 29, 2021
by Andreas Grundtvig with One Comment Uncategorized

This investigation explores one of the oldest dialects of English in order to discover which features of the language spoken by the Anglo-Saxons, remain buried in common use today. Spoken language is analysed on two levels:  regional colloquial speech amo ...

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The bits in between

December 22, 2020
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"I suppose it makes sense that Shakespeare came up with hobnob - because it's the most old fashioned of biscuits, it's got like bits of hay in it and stuff, it's like eating a thatched roof!" Philomena Cunk

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Andreas Grundtvig
Andreas is a teacher, author, linguist, Cambridge Exams Centre Manager and former HELTA Chair. A speaker of eight languages, he learnt English (his fourth) at primary school in Scotland and Suffolk. As a country collector, he takes every chance to explore language(s) in context. After several visits to Africa he founded Teachers 4 Schools e.V. together with a group of friends.

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