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Measuring Linguistic Complexity: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Announcing a multidisciplinary workshop on linguistic complexity.
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ELF and World Englishes: Dispelling some of the confusion
Update: This is a post advertising a talk that took place in 2014. The content is no longer current, and it is retained here for archival purposes. If you have found yourself here looking for information on World Englishes or ELF, you may find the following links more helpful: “Are you ELF?” (Reading Notes) English…
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Call for Papers: The Languages of Language Learning
The 11th Annual Conference of the BAAL Language Learning and Teaching SIG will be hosted by the Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language Research Group (ETAL), Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, and is set to take place on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd July 2015. The theme of the upcoming conference is The Languages of…
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Open Access Week 2014
To mark Open Access Week 2014, here are some links to relevant content: In this blog An overview of open access publishing; A list of myths about Open Access, according to Peter Suber, the director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication; Elsewhere on the web: A video explaining the Open Access publishing model, by…
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Dr S. Bestiale, Jon Snow’s fate, and a poem
It’s one of those weeks when I find it really difficult to do any serious work, offline or on this blog. So, this week’s collection of reading materials will endeavour to provide answers to questions such as: (a) who is Dr Stronzo Bestiale?, (b) is John Snow dead? and (c) what is the boundary between Science and…
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Call for papers: 12th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL12)
The 12th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL12), a biennial meeting for the study of the Greek Language, will be hosted by the the Freie Universität Berlin (Chair for Modern Greek Studies and the Center for Modern Greece) from 16 to 19 September 2015. Invited speakers include: Elena Anagnostopoulou, University of Crete Peter Mackridge, University of Oxford Maria Sifianou, National…
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Elephants, self-promotion, and academic self-presentation
For today, I had originally planned to post some thoughts on Teaching English to Very Young learners, drawing on a small scale inquiry I ran online over the last 10 days. However, that post has been de-prioritised, and in its place I’d like to engage in some rather shameless self-promotion, which I will then use as a springboard in…
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Where can I find calls for papers for TESOL?
So, you have written or are planning to write a paper on language education, TESOL or applied linguistics – but do you know where to publish it? The easiest way forward usually is to submit your work to one of the many journals in the field. Another option is to consider an edited volume or…
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A landmark and a thank you note
I am very happy to say that, in the past month this blog received 5,758 page views, which is the highest number of views since its creation. The previous record has stood since March 2014, when the blog had received 4,591 views, largely on account of the Fake Papers post. By way of comparison, in…