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    A teacher recently posted a Comment expressing concern about how certain students expressed homophobic/transphobic views in their written texts...

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    How do we write? Or, to be more precise, how do we expect, or require, our students to write? I have recently read an article in El Pais on...

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  • 28 March 2024
    David Ripley
    Listening questions
    Yes, Joyce, I believe that this would be acceptable - allow 'head' as equivalent to 'heads' which is more grammatically correct. The principle informing such decisions is that grammar should not influence the mark unless an error blurs the...
  • 28 March 2024
    David Ripley
    Cat.2 clarified
    The RQ seems sensibly limited and focused, Ceridwen, and it should fit well into Cat.2B. My concern would be not so much that it would be 'historical' but rather that it might be too simply factual - which is perhaps another way of saying the...
  • 28 March 2024
    Joyce Yaung
    Listening questions
    Hi David,This might have been addressed before regarding not penalizing grammatical errors, so is it safe to say that students leaving out the "s" for plurals would be acceptable (e.g. "shaving their head" instead of "heads"?  or would...
  • 28 March 2024
    Jyotika Laroche
    An excellent EE
    Hi David. Thank you so much for your advice!

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