Category: All topics
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Doing Classroom-Based Research
In this post I dicsuss classroom-based research as a way for teachers to explore their professional practice.
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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…
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Punctuation..?
I was delighted to receive, a few days ago, a copy of Punctuation..?, a short reference book published by User Design. Unlike more cumbersome style guides, Punctuation..? is quite concise: it spans 35 A5-size pages. These contain 21 sections, focusing on different punctuation marks, such as ‘square brackets’ or ‘semi colon’. Each section describes the…
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Drunken Aussies, Upgrading to PhD, and the REF
This post was part of a series of posts curating internet content about language, linguistics and higher education between 2013 and 2015. Much of the content of the post is no longer current, but it is retained here for archival reasons. I’ve been in my new post in Graz for a month now, and life…
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On Language Learning Strategies
A narrative account of the Situating Strategies in Use conference in Klagenfurt (2015).
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Join us for Prof Werner Delanoy’s seminar in Graz!
Those of you who are in Graz or nearby might be interested in attending a seminar by Assoc. Prof. Werner Delanoy, which will be hosted by Fachdidaktik Anglistik at the University of Graz. In this seminar, titled Transculturality as a New Paradigm for Culture Learning, Prof. Delanoy will discuss the concept of Transculturality, defined as…
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Language Learning Strategies and Individual Learning Characteristics
Update: Published! I am very happy to announce that Language Learning Strategies and Individual Learner Characteristics, the edited collection described in the call for papers below, has just been published by Bloomsbury. The volume, which is edited by Rebecca Oxford and Carmen Amerstorfer, describes the connections between the intrapersonal characteristics of language learners, the language learning…
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New job, new beginnings
As some of you might already know, next month (October 2015) I am moving to a new academic home at the University of Graz, where I will join the Department of English Studies (Institut für Anglistik). Among other things, I’ll be responsible for teaching two undergraduate courses to future language teachers: an Introduction to Foreign Language Didactics, and an…
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Language research, performance and the creative arts
If you happen to be in or around Leeds next month, you might be interested in a one-day seminar organised jointly by the University of Leeds Centre for Language Education Research (CLER) and members of the AHRC-funded Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the Body, Law and the State project. The seminar, which will take place on Friday…