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What do predatory journals look like?
A list of red flags that can help you identify predatory journals and other, similar scams in academic publishing.
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Intentional Dynamics in TESOL: An Ecological Perspective
The article “Intentional Dynamics in TESOL: An Ecological Perspective” describes intentionality in language education, offering a new way to define language education systems and providing a common theoretical frame for descriptions ranging from individual learners to nation-wide systems.
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Revisiting the Target Language Democratisation narrative
We have all been taught the history of ELT. But is it possible that the story we’ve been told is wrong?
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Call for Papers: Special issue on ‘Current Approaches to Bilingualism’
A special issue of the International Journal of Language and Applied Linguistics (IJLAL) is to appear in October 2015, and submissions are invited for articles, which will focus on current approaches to bilingualism. The special issue, which is to be guest-edited by Elena Gómez Parra and Cristina A. Huertas (both University of Córdoba, Spain) aims to “promote the discussion and dissemination of…
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Call for Papers: Third ASSE International Conference on British and American Studies
One of the first conferences in which I presented as a novice PhD student, and one which I remember very fondly, was organised by a group of academics in Vlora, Albania. If memory serves, these academics later became founding members of the Albanian Society for the Study of English (ASSE), and have been very active ever since…
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On being misquoted
This post revisits an old frustration: being misquoted and misrepresented in a doctoral thesis on Likert scales. I explain what I actually wrote, highlight how selective citation distorts meaning, and consider why such lapses matter for scholarship. Ten years on, I argue for more rigorous research practices and point to initiatives that foster teachers’ research…
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Call for Papers: NATESOL 2015
The Northern Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (NATESOL) is a Manchester-based teacher’s association that has been supporting the professional development of English Language Teachers since 1984. They hold several events throughout the year, including an annual conference. This year’s conference, will be be held on Saturday 20th June 2015 at Salford City College, and…
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Sexist Peer Review; Non-replicable Science; and Flexible Job Searches
About this article: This is a summary of blog posts, articles and other content about Higher Education, language teaching and learning and academic writing, which were published in the last week of April 2015. The topics covered in this post include: Can you get away with sexist remarks in peer review? Is it really a…
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Our IATEFL panel: A summary
This post is a summary of the 2015 IATEFL panel discussion about Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL), in which I was involved, along with Vicky Loras, Juup Stelma, Magdalena De Stefani and María Muniz.