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This chapter is about understanding for practice – if you want to try Exploratory Practice (EP) (and hopefully this book has convinced you that it is worth considering), what do you need to think about? How to access those elusive puzzles that fly around our brains? How to capture life ‘as it flies’?
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Hanks, J. (2017). Puzzles, Puzzling, and Trust. In: Exploratory Practice in Language Teaching. Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45344-0_12
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