Category: All topics
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Rethinking Language, Diversity and Education
[Archive] Information about the “Rethinking Language, Diversity and Education” conference that took place in Rhodes, Greece in May 2015.
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How to summarise Likert scale data using SPSS
If you want to convert multiple Likert item scores in a combined scale, here’s one way to do it using SPSS.
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What’s hot in science; academic blogging; and a paper by Maggie Simpson
In case you’re looking for inspiration for your next research project, in this week’s collection of noteworthy articles, I provide a list of the hottest fields in science. There are also some thoughts on how to discuss one’s blog to potentially sceptical peers, a story on linguistic discrimination and a narrative about the difficulties involved in correcting…
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Three reasons why I dislike ResearchGate
Thoughts on (what was in 2014) a new way to share research.
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Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes: Special Issue on Business English
Readers who have a professional or academic interest in Business English may be interested in the latest issue of Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes (Volume 2, Issue 3, Special Issue on Business English). The issue contains a number of interesting articles, with both a practical and an empirical focus. Writing from a…
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Call for Papers: 22nd International Symposium of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
[ARCHIVED POST] Information about the 22nd International Symposium of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (Thessaloniki, 2015)
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Open access and other stories
About this post: This is a summary of posts, news stories and other content about Open Access publishing, as well as other aspects of Higher Education), which appeared online in the first week of December 2014. There were several interesting stories this week on Open Access publishing. Open Access (OA) is a publication model that…
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“Impact factor is a scam”, argues Curt Rice
Curt Rice, the head of the Board for Current Research Information System in Norway (CRIStin), recently published an interesting article in his blog, discussing the uses and abuses of the impact factor. This is reproduced, with the author’s kind permission, below. Quality control in research: the mysterious case of the bouncing impact factor Research must be…
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Your search terms, revealed
There was a time, not too long ago, when Google would share the search terms (or ‘keywords’) that led readers to this blog. Google now encrypts this data, which means that I can no longer know what brought most of you here, but I can still get some clues from the search terms shared by other…