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Interesting chapter on teacher cognition and educational technology
Teachers tend to teach as they were taught – but is this also true for edtech?
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[Call for papers] International Symposium on Bilingualism
[Archive] Call for papers for the 2015 International Symposium on Bilingualism.
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Obtaining informed consent in a multilingual research setting
Asking people to participate in your research projects is never straightforward, especially if you are unsure what language to use!
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Recently Read: Scottish Independence and Higher Education
A collection of articles and views on the impact of Scottish Independence on Higher Education.
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If Scotland votes for independence, what happens to the language?
More than thirty years ago, linguists ventured a guess that the rise in Scottish nationalism might lead to Scottish English re-asserting itself. Were they right?
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Teaching ESP & New Language Learning Technologies [Call for papers]
This post refers to a call for papers in 2015. Although the deadline for submissions is in the past, the post is retained here as part of the blog’s historical record on language education publishing. Update: Selected papers from this conference have been published in a special issue of the Journal of English for Specific…
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Researching multilingually: More than meets the eye?
Introducing a new series of posts on the intricacies of doing multilingual research!
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Thank you!
Earlier today I submitted my thesis for examination, and I think that this is a good time to reflect on the all the invaluable help I was kindly offered throughout the many years it took me to plan, conduct and write up my PhD. It would have been impossible to thank everybody in writing, not least because many…
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Possible scam involving academic publishing?
You will never get a fee for publishing in an academic journal. According to a recent post in Scholarly Open Access (a now [2019] defunct blog, which used to report on academic publishing scams), there is at least one academic publisher so keen to recruit authors and editors that they offer rewards of “1,000-10,000 dollars as…