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Developing research literacy skills for language teachers: The ReaLiTea project
The ReaLiTea project is an international collaboration that aims to develop research literacy among teachers. This post provides an overview of the project and explains why research literacy is necessary and urgent.
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Innovations in the Teaching of English and World Languages from a Decolonial Perspective [Call for Chapters]
Call for Chapters for an edited volume that will explore decolonial perspectives on language teacher preparation.
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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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What are linguists good for? An introduction to critical linguistics
More than a century ago, Prof. Jan Baudouin de Courtenay enraged Russian authorities by adding ‘indecent’ words to the Russian dictionary. What might this incident tell us about linguistics?
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Classroom Observation: A how-to guide
Classroom obvervations can be challenging. This guide describes a series of steps that can help you to plan, conduct and reflect on a visit to a language classroom.
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Intercultural Education on the Move [Call for Papers]
The International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE) is accepting papers for its online international conference, entitled Intercultural Education on the Move: Facing Old and New Challenges, which will be held on 1st and 2nd October 2022.
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From individual to relational resilience in ELT
Research on language teacher resilience has tended to focus too much on the ‘individual self’ at the expense of relational understandings. Is it time to rethink this?
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Language Diversity in Greece (Book Review)
I have always had an interest in scholarship that challenges monolingual narratives. This was why I was very excited when I was asked to review Linguistic Diversity in Greece, a volume edited by four prominent Greek linguists (Skourtou et al., 2020). The edited collection looks into various marginalised linguistic communities in Greece, and showcases the…
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The Intentional Dynamics of TESOL
I have just learnt from our publishers, de Gruyter Mouton, that the book I have writing with Juup Stelma, The Intentional Dynamics of TESOL, is on the final printing stages, and that it will be available for purchase from 10th May onwards. This seems like a good time to say a few words about the…