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Chapter published: Understanding and Challenging ‘the Known’
In this post I summarise the chapter Understanting and Challenging the Known from a Complexity Perspective (Kostoulas, 2014)
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Music and Cognition in Language Learning [Call for papers]
The symposium Music and Cognition in Language Learning, which will be hosted by the Research in Affective Language Learning (ReALL) research group of the University of Huelva, will take place on 6th-7th November 2014 in Huelva (Spain). According to the organisers, the symposium will focus on “analyzing ways of experiencing language learning that take advantage…
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Thinking about setting up an academic blog?
I am a relatively recent newcomer to academic blogging: I started my blog in January 2012 (although I did have a personal blog which I started in September 2006). Recently [in 2014], I crossed the 30,000 views landmark [update: as of 2024, the views counter is well over one million], which is perhaps a modest…
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Thoughts on academic blogging
This post has been prompted by a small personal landmark. Earlier today, this blog passed the 30,000 views mark, after about 30 months of operation. Of course, the views are not evenly distributed: for more than a year after it was created, this webspace operated mostly as an online CV/academic homepage, and the blog section…
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BAAL LLT 2014: An overview
This is a long-overdue post about the BAAL Language Learning and Teaching conference, which I promised a week ago. It’s hard to do credit to such an intellectually stimulating conference in a single blog post, let alone one that I had to write in the midst of copy-editing my thesis for submission, so I’ll just…
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Highlights of BAAL LLT 2014
Last week I was at the BAAL Language Learning and Teaching SIG Annual conference, where I talked about how constructs such as intentionality and dynamics of intentions can be used in the study of complex adaptive systems. I hope I’ll have time to write a fuller post soon, where I might try to convey the diversity…
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Positive Psychology in SLA
In what ways can Positive Psychology inform the theory and practice of language education. This edited collection attempts to give some answers.
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Psychology and Language Learning (Call for papers)
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching are planning a special issue which will focus on the psychology of language learning and teaching. The issue will be guest-edited by Stephen Ryan (Senshu University) and Sarah Mercer (University of Graz). UPDATE July 2018: This call for papers appears to have been spectactularly successful, led to the publication of two…
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New Directions in Language Learning Psychology
An overview of a new volume by Gkonou, Tatzl and Mercer (2016), with a chapter by me and Juup Stelma.