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It’s started: the Silly Season, the suffocatingly-anodine, unchallenging, leave-your-brain-at-the-door ELT Conference Season. These conferences ignore the increasing commodification of the education industry. Teachers are seen as the deliverers of courses which reduce education to the learning of a pre-determined list of discrete units of testable ‘knowledge’. This “knowledge” is delivered by coursebooks with minimal mediation…
