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Paying for peer review; Nobel laureates on Raif Badawi; & dealing with retractions
This post is a collection of articles about ELT, language learning and Higher Education, which appeared in the second week of January 2015. In this week’s collection of articles, I would like to invite you to reflect on the following questions: New open-access journal promises to pay peer reviewers According to an article in the…
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How are we encouraging predatory publishers?
Recently, Scholarly Open Access, an authoritative blog that tracks the activity of predatory publishers, issued a warning (link no longer active) about The International Journal of English Language, Literature & Humanities (I used to have a link to them as well, but I decided they don’t deserve one), a fraudulent journal that seems to target ELT professionals.…
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This year’s ELT Journal debate
ELT Journal are holding their annual debate at IATEFL in Manchester on Monday 13 April 2015. This year’s motion is Language testing does more harm than good. In the latest issue of ELT J (unfortunately behind a paywall!), the rationale of the debate is described as follows: A remarkable amount of time is devoted to testing and…
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Call for Papers: 4th International Conference on TEYL Assessment & Learning
The Faculty of Education of the University of Kragujevac (Serbia) are organising the 4th International Conference on Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL), which will take place on the 5th and 6th June 2015. The conference will focus on Assessment and Learning, and the organisers are looking forward to submissions that will focus on topics such as: Assessment…
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Bilingualism, blogging, and authenticity
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 January 2015. Last week, I remarked that there were lots of interesting developments going on in higher education at the moment. It seems that I should learn to keep my mouth shut,…
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TESOL Research Agenda 2014
TESOL International recently published their 2014 research agenda, a document that aims to summarise salient theoretical developments and gaps in the profession’s collective knowledge, and provide guidance for new research projects. Future research In the document, three main domains of research are defined: (a) research on individuals engaged in language teaching and learning, (b) research on…
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How I became a book salesman
Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that, in recent posts, whenever I mention a book, I link to Amazon.com rather than Google Books. Here’s what this is all about: Maintaining this blog involves two kinds of investments. The first is an investment in time, for researching, writing and publicising the posts. Your readership, support and kind comments are…
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Call for papers: Second Language Acquisition: Implications for language sciences (EUROSLA 25)
The 25th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA 25) will take place on 27th – 29th August 2015 at Aix-Marisaille University (France). The conference is organised by the Laboratoire Parole et Langage, in association with the Département de français langue étrangère of the Aix-Marseille University). The general theme of the Conference is “Second Language Acquisition:…
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Making college free, a new OA journal, and student visas
About this post: This is a summary of blog posts, articles and other content about Higher Education, language teaching and learning and academic writing that appeared online in the first week of January 2015. I am not sure whether it was a mere coincidence or if it is somehow connected to the New Year, but…