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Call for Papers: “English Language & Literature Studies: Tradition and Transformation (ELLSTAT)”
The 5th International Conference of the English Department, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, entitled English Language and Literature Studies: Tradition and Transformation (ELLSTAT) will take place on the 23rd and 24th October 2015 in Belgrade. The aim of the conference is “to promote exchange of ideas across different areas and theoretical frameworks of English linguistics and anglophone literary/cultural studies…
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Our IATEFL 2015 presentation: “Teaching English to Young Learners: Some International Perspectives”
I am very happy to announce that I will be chairing a panel discussion that will focus on Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL) in the upcoming IATEFL conference. The discussion will take place on Saturday, 11th April 2015 (time and location, TBA). Our panel aims to bring together perspectives of TEYL from a variety of contexts around the world.…
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From mental health to killer fish
This is a list of news items, stories and other noteworthy content about TESOL and Higher Education, that appeared online on the last week of November 2014.
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How not to do a research project
This post looks into some avoidable issues that can sometimes compromise classroom based research and student research projects. I hope I do not sound too immodest when I claim that I have some experience in school-based research. My PhD research was embedded in a language school, I’ve supervised BA and M-level research projects which involved working with…
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Preparing teachers to teach English as an International Language
Update: Published! Preparing Teachers to Teach English as an International Language, the edited collection described below, was published by Multilingual Matters in 2017. Writing at the Multilingual Matters blog, Aya Matsuda explained that the purpose of the book is to create an intellectual space where teacher educators in different contexts with shared goals and interests…
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Publishing the ‘Greek Tragedy’ chapter
A step-by-step account of how I published a chapter in an edited collection (Resistance to the Known; Rivers 2014)
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Situated Strategy Use 2015 (Call for papers)
Update: This is a post advertising the Situating Strategy Use conference that took place in October 2015 (SSU1). The content of the post is no longer current, and it is retained here for archival purposes only. If you’d like to read more about the actual conference, you can find a description here: On Language Learning…
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Viva outcome
I am happy to announce that I successfully defended my PhD thesis yesterday. Professor Adrian Holliday and Dr Richard Fay, acting in the capacity of external and internal examiner respectively, were satisfied that the thesis meets the criteria for the degree, pending minor corrections that will be implemented in due course. I thank them both for their feedback…
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Call for chapters: Demystifying Critical Thinking in Multilingual and Intercultural Education
Proposals are invited for an edited volume, entitled Critical Thinking in multilingual and intercultural education, to be published in 2016, by Info Age Publishing as part of their Contemporary Language Education series. According to the book editors, Fred Dervin and Julie Byrd Clark: One of the most basic definitions of CT could be: “The ability to…