Category: All topics
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Critical perspectives on gender and sexuality in English language education (Call for papers)
Call for chapter proposals for an edited volume on gender and sexual diversity in English language education (Darío Luis Banegas & Navan Govender, eds).
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Adaptive and maladaptive language teaching resilience
In the late 2010s I was trying to udnerstand that makes language teachers resilient. This post summarisies a publication that focused on that question.
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Crossroads of Languages and Cultures (Call for Papers)
The 6th Crossroads of Languages and Cultures International Conference will take place in Cyprus on 23-25th October 2020. This call of papers may be of interest.
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Raising children to speak many languages
Summary of the article “Family language policy in mixed-language families: An exploratory study of online parental discourses” (Kostoulas & Motsiou 2020).
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International Mother Language Day 2019
Facts, figures and thoughts regarding linguistic diversity, globally and in Greece.
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What’s love got to do with it?
Reacting to a bad paper, and some thoughts on the state of academic publishing in language education.
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Complexity Theory & Language Development: A review of Ortega & Han (2017)
The Linguist List has published my review of ‘Complexity Theory and Language Development. You can read a revised version of the review in this post.
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Language Education at an Age of Uncertainty
Challenging Boundaries in Language Education is a book written for a time of uncertainty. In this post, I outline the main characteristics of what I define as the ‘post-certainty condition’ in language education, and discuss its implications.
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Situating Strategy Use 3 (Call for papers)
Situating Strategy Use (SSU) is a biennial conference that focuses on language learning and language use strategies. The third SSU conference will take place in Osaka (Japan) in October 2019. You can read more about the conference, and how to submit a proposal, in this post.