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Elsevier giving limited free access to new articles
Elsevier have recently announced that they are now providing 50 days of free access to any newly-published article. When an article is published authors are sent a special link, or ‘Share Link’, which they can use in their social media profiles (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, ResearchGate, Mendeley, LinkedIn, etc.). Anyone clicking on the Share Link will…
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Saving the Fulbright programme and other stories
This is a summary of selected posts, online articles and other content about Higher Education, language teaching and learning and academic writing, which appeared in the week starting on the 16th June 2014. It’s been a while since I wrote one of these posts, as I am still overwhelmed by a number of pressing commitments,…
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Universal Biases on Phonological Acquisition and Processing [Call for papers]
Update (June 2015) This is a post advertising an academic event that took place in 2015. The content is no longer current, and is retained here for archival purposes only. If you’d like to receive updates on upcoming ELT and linguistics events, you may want to consider subscribing to this blog.
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Isms in Language Education: Oppression, Intersectionality & Emancipation
Update (October 2017) The volume advertised in this post has now been published in the Language and Social Life series of de Gruyter Mouton. The title of the volume has been updated to Isms in Language Education: Oppression, Intersectionality and Emancipation. The volume consists of 12 chapters which greatly enrich the critical discourse in language education.
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Teaching English to Young Learners, revisited
A discussion of the effectiveness of the Greek TEYL project, based on recent publications.
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Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes 2(1)
A new issue (Vol. 2, Issue 1) of the Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes has now been published. All the articles in the journal (see below for titles and a brief description) are Open Access. Volume 2, Issue 1: Contents Editorial Comment: Stojković N. Places of Interest – A Personal View A presentation…
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Doing survey research: A collection of resources
Over time, I have written a number of posts on doing survey research, and I had been thinking of bringing them together in a single ‘index’ post for ease of reference, but somehow never managed to get round to it. Since I am currently not creating any new content, this is as good an opportunity as any, so here goes: An…
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Interruption of service
[Archive] A brief announement regarding this blog.
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English as a Lingua Franca: Three questions, few answers
English as a Lingua Franca researchers have made multiple, sometimes bold claims about ELF. This post discusses three salient questions about what ELF is, and what it means for language educators.