Category: All topics
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Intentionality, Language Education and Complex Dynamic Systems
This post introduces intentionality, a concept that helps us rethink how complex dynamic systems are constructed in language education research.
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Inclusion beyond translation: A conversation with Maria Cioé-Peña
What can a teacher do when thirty children bring different languages, cultures, and needs into the same classroom? Drawing on a ReaLiTea podcast, this post considers culturally sustaining pedagogy, multilingual ecologies, multimodal meaning-making, and the unresolved gap between inclusive principles and classroom practice.
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July 2026: Notes on Becoming, and Other Unfinished Business
Four book projects, two field trips, and a lot of unfinished business. Notes on teaching, research, and writing in July 2026.
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A new issue of the European Journal of Language Education & Language (2/1)
Why launch another journal in language education? In this editorial reflection, I explain the vision behind the European Journal of Education and Language Review and introduce Issue 2(1).
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AI-Assisted Teacher Reflection: Thinking Before, During, and After the Lesson
Teaching has always required reflective practice. This post explores how artificial intelligence can support three types of teacher reflection (before, during, and after the lesson) drawing on Farrell’s framework and the AI Lang guidelines.
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Being and Becoming a Plurilingual Academic: A new book in the making
Our upcoming book, Being and Becoming a Plurilingual Academic explores what it means to teach, research, publish, and build an academic identity in a higher education system where English has become the default language.
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April 2026: Notes on Fatigue and Unexpected Returns
Sustained effort, unexpected intellectual richness and occasional moments that make the work feel worthwhile. A summary of my work in April 2026.
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New in EJELR: Motivation, Migration, and the Ecology of Language Learning
How does motivation emerge for refugee language learners in Greece? This posts offers insights from an ecological study led by one of my MA students (Rizou & Kostoulas, 2026).
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The Book I Wanted to Write (But Didn’t)
Three years of work, a team I’m proud of, and a book I have complicated feelings about. This is an honest account of all of the above.