Category: All topics
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CLIL and Immersion: Some differences
This post discusses differences between CLIL and bilingual immersion programmes.
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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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Transgressing Curricular Borderlines in Language Education
The first chapters of the Challenging Boundaries in Language Education have been submitted. The focus of both these contributions, by Katerina Vourdanou and Dietmar Tatzl, is on combining language education with other curricular objectives.
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Complex Systems Theory as a Shared Discourse Space for TESOL
In June 2018, I (Achilleas Kostoulas), Juup Stelma, Sarah Mercer, Lynne Cameron and Susan Dawson published an article on Complex Systems Theory and TESOL. This post discusses the article and presents some background information.
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What happens to an article after it has been submitted to a journal?
This post describes the hidden processes that take place before an article appears in an academic journal.
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A Language School as a Complex System: Why did I write this book?
In this extract from ‘A Language School as a Complex System’, I explain what the purpose of the book is, and what contribution I hope to make. I also write about a more personal reason that motivated the writing of the book.
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What is applied linguistics?
Despite claims that language teachers do not need to know much theory, applied linguistics remains an important part of language teacher education. Here’s why.
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Language Teacher Psychology
Some thoughts about the recently published volume that Sarah Mercer and I co-edited.