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Beyond Borders: Interdisciplinarity and Interculturality in the Foreign Language Syllabus [Call for papers]
Academics of the English Language and Literature Study Programme at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Montenegro will be preparing a collection of papers in memory of the recently deceased Biljana Milatović, PhD. The collection, titled “Beyond Borders: Interdisciplinarity and Interculturality in the Foreign Language Syllabus“, will be published in autumn 2014 by the Faculty of Philosophy…
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Recently Read (3 – 9 March)
This week’s collection of readings discusses the league tables, expresses concern about mental health in the higher education, and offers examples of how such pressure can bring out the worst and the best in academics. The University World Reputation Rankings I guess the top story in the week that passed was the publication of the…
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What shapes language policy in education?
This post was prompted by the publication, last week, of a story in the Washington Post about changes in language use in the US over the last 30 years. Some key takeaways from the story were the decline in rank of what one might term ‘European heritage’ languages such as Greek, Italian, Yiddish and Polish,…
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University of Manchester SEED conference [Call for papers]
The annual PGR conference of the University of Manchester School of Environment, Education and Development will take place on Monday 19th May 2014. This year’s theme is Innovation in Research. Students from MIE, Architecture, Geography, Planning and IDPM are invited to submit posters or presentations, as follows: Poster Presentation MIE (optional) (optional, but strongly encouraged) Architecture 1st year PhD (required) 2nd or 3rd…
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Race and TESOL
One of the many passages I have underlined in The Reflexive Teacher Educator in TESOL by Julian Edge is the following: Javier (2010) also reports the difficulties of establishing her acceptability to students as their English teacher, while belonging to what she terms a ‘visible ethnic minority’. Put simply, looking Filipino and teaching English in China…
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![Beyond English: Multilingualism in Contemporary Europe [Call for papers]](https://achilleaskostoulas.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/3050378171_f944bc8c4a_b.jpg)
Beyond English: Multilingualism in Contemporary Europe [Call for papers]
The International Conference Beyond English: Multilingualism in Contemporary Europe [link no longer active] will be organised by Polonia University, Częstochowa (Poland). As hinted by the conference title: The conference focuses on multilingualism in contemporary Europe and the role of English as the global language. However, its aim is to show that, even though English is the world…
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Recently read… (24 Feb – 2 Mar 2014)
Note: This post is part of a series of items that curated noteworthy news stories about language teaching and learning and higher education. The content of the post is no longer current, but I have decided to retain the post for historical reasons, as part of this blog’s archive. This week’s collection of stories, articles…
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Fake papers are not the real problem in science
In case you missed it, the ‘big story’ in academic news in the past week was the retraction of more than 120 papers that had been published by Springer and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). The retraction followed the discovery, by Dr. Cyril Labbé of Joseph Fourier University, that all the fake…
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![43rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest [Call for papers]](https://achilleaskostoulas.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2011-06-08-13-24-55.jpg)
43rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest [Call for papers]
43rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO XLIII) will be held on 18th – 20th September 2014 in San Diego, California. The theme for this year’s conference is “Heritage Languages (of the Southwest) in the era of e–learning”. Call for papers…