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Postdoc position in ELT at the University of Graz
A new job opportunity in our ELT Research and Methodology team! We are looking for a postdoctoral research associate – read on for more details.
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Peer review: The good, the bad and the ugly
What can we learn from bad feedback?
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Challenging Boundaries in Language Education
This edited collection, entitled Challenging Boundaries in Language Education, was published by Springer as part of the Second Language Learning and Teaching series. You can read about how it began in this post.
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Things I didn’t do in IATEFL
The last time I attended the IATEFL annual conference was in 2015, when Magdalena de Stefani, Maria Muniz, Juup Stelma and I took part in a symposium on Teaching English to Young Learners. Since then, I have always made a point of attending again, and I have consistently failed to do so. Life happens. Academic…
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A Language School as a Complex System
This is a post announcing the publication of my latest book, A Language School as a Complex System. In the post you can find a very brief summary of what the book is about, and what it aims to do.
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Conversations with a purpose: Reflecting on interviewing in EFL research
If you are interested in following the more recent activities of IATEFL and the Research Special interest group, the following links might be more useful: The IATEFL website The ReSIG website IATEFL ReSIG Pre-Conference Event The IATEFL conference in Birmingham is coming up, and those of you who have an interest in classroom-based research may want…
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2015 in Review
Highlights of a year of blogging – with comments on Native/Non-Native Speakers of English, feral children, and complexity theory.
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Intentionality & Complex Systems Theory in Language Education
Some information about a chapter, by me and Juup Stelma, which brings Intentionality and Complex Systems Theory in Language Education
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So, why is there an -f- in my email?
About this post: This post refers to when I was affiliated with the University of Graz (2015-2018). At the time, I had a confusing email address with what seemed to be a typo. I wrote this post because it was easier to direct people to it, rather than have to explain the situation over and…