How it works

Short to read. Careful to make.

A bite takes two minutes to read. It should also be something you can trust, quote in a lesson plan, and build on. Quality comes before everything else, including the daily schedule.

  1. 1

    Choose

    Bites rotate across nine strands of the field. The next concept is usually one that earlier bites already point to, so the collection grows as a connected map. Core ideas come first; lesser-known ones follow.

  2. 2

    Research

    Each bite starts from the work that introduced the concept, then the studies and reviews that shaped it. Where researchers disagree, the bite says so.

  3. 3

    Write

    About twenty sentences in a fixed shape: a one-line definition, a short essay, three classroom moves, a common myth, and a question to reflect on. Plain English throughout. Technical terms appear only when needed, and are explained.

  4. 4

    Check every reference

    Every DOI is checked against Crossref, the official registry for scholarly articles: the title, year and author must match. Books are checked against library records, and every link is opened. A reference that fails is fixed or removed.

  5. 5

    Fact-check, separately

    A second, independent review reads the bite sceptically: is each claim accurate, and credited to the right person? Anything that cannot be confirmed is softened or cut.

  6. 6

    Publish

    One bite goes live each morning at 06:00 Vietnam time. Nothing is published until it has passed every check.

Our standards

  • No invented sources. Every reference can be opened and read.
  • No invented quotations or statistics.
  • Credit where it is due: who coined a term, and who made it popular.
  • Debates shown fairly, not from one camp.
  • Plain English. If a sentence needs reading twice, it is rewritten.

Where AI fits in

Bites are researched and drafted with the help of AI. That is what makes a new one possible every day. The checks above are what make it trustworthy: references are verified against official records, not taken on trust.

Spotted a mistake?

Tell us and it will be corrected. Accuracy matters more than pride. Get in touch via dqnotes.

Concepts
Epistemic Status and Epistemic StanceNo. 027 · Discourse
Teacher CognitionNo. 026 · Teacher Dev.
Construction GrammarNo. 025 · Cognitive
Data-Driven LearningNo. 024 · Corpus
The Teaching–Learning CycleNo. 023 · SFL
InvestmentNo. 022 · Socioling.
Dynamic AssessmentNo. 021 · Assessment
Focus on FormNo. 020 · Pedagogy
The Output HypothesisNo. 019 · SLA
The Apprenticeship of ObservationNo. 018 · Teacher Dev.
Prototype TheoryNo. 017 · Cognitive
The Idiom PrincipleNo. 016 · Corpus
Theme and RhemeNo. 015 · SFL
TranslanguagingNo. 014 · Socioling.
RecastsNo. 013 · Discourse
Formative AssessmentNo. 012 · Assessment
Task-Based Language TeachingNo. 011 · Pedagogy
The Noticing HypothesisNo. 010 · SLA
Reflective PracticeNo. 009 · Teacher Dev.
Conceptual MetaphorNo. 008 · Cognitive
CollocationNo. 007 · Corpus
Register: Field, Tenor and ModeNo. 006 · SFL
Communicative CompetenceNo. 005 · Socioling.
IRF / IRE SequenceNo. 004 · Discourse
WashbackNo. 003 · Assessment
ScaffoldingNo. 002 · Pedagogy
InterlanguageNo. 001 · SLA
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