Tag: Refugees
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Research Engagement Among Language Teachers for Refugees and Migrants in Greece
How do language teachers working with refugees and migrants engage with research?
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Call for Papers: IAIE 2026 Conference
Call for Papers for IAIE 2026 “Migration, the Global Quest for Educational Equity, and Intercultural Education.” (Athens, 19–21 June).
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Language education for refugees and migrants: An intentional dynamics perspective
Language education for refugees and migrants is a topic that has received much less attention than it deserves. Two recently completed MA dissertations provide some insights in this complex topic.
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MA in Language Education for Refugees and Migrants
Overview of the MA Language Education for Refugees and Migrants, an online postgraduate programme for language teachers offered by the Hellenic Open University.
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A classroom observation framework
Conducting classroom observations is one of the most effective ways to develop as a teacher. But classrooms are so information-rich that the experience can be overwhelming. How do you decide what to look out for?
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Working with refugee-background learners
I recently wrote about a project (Critical Skills for Life and Work) we did at the University of Graz, which aimed to help people with a refugee or migrant background with their professional integration. One of the things I did, as part of my involvement in the project, was to familiarise myself with existing literature…
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Critical Skills for Life and Work
An overview of the Critical Skills for Life and Work project, an EU-funded initiative helping highly skilled refugees develop professional intercultural communication skills. The flexible toolkit uses a plurilingual approach to support workplace integration across five career stages.
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Disrupting Geographical Borders in Language Education
The three next chapters in Challenging Boundaries in Language Education, problematise how the changing composition of language classroom impacts the professional roles and identities of teachers. These chapters look into superdiverse urban settings, explore the identity construction of teachers, and describe a teacher education programme that prepares language educators to help refugee-background learners.
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No child is unwelcome here: ELT tutoring for refugee children
One of the less visible aspects of the refugee crisis is that the refugee children have their education disrupted. They often have difficulty enrolling in the formal education systems of their host countries, and even when they do, they usually need a lot of extra support. To help provide some of the support needed, we at the…