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From time to time one has to rethink the relationship between one’s teaching and one’s theoretical platform — not in order to put oneself in line with current fashion but because the quality of one’s work can improve if what one does instinctively is consciously conceptualized.
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Toker, L. (2011). Syntactics — Semantics — Pragmatics (Still Having One’s Cake?). In: Bradford, R. (eds) Teaching Theory. Teaching the New English. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230304727_5
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