I am an applied linguist, specializing in language teacher education and TESOL.
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Rebuilding ELT as a Resilient Profession
Summary of the plenary talk I gave at the 10th ELT Malta cconference (8 October 2021) on resilience in ELT.
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An introduction to critical linguistics
More than a century ago, Prof. Jan Baudouin de Courtenay enraged Russian authorities by adding ‘indecent’ words to the Russian dictionary. What might this incident tell us about linguistics?
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Classroom Observation for language teachers: A how-to guide
Learn how to plan, conduct, and reflect on classroom observations with this step-by-step guide for teachers, student teachers, and supervisors.
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Language Policy in Higher Education
WORKSHOP: Universities are sites where local languages, standard national languages, and English as a global language come into contact. What does this mean in terms of language policy?
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Liberating Language Education
This is an extended version of the review I write for Liberating Language Education (Lytra et al., 2021) for Linguist List.
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Intercultural Education on the Move [Call for Papers]
The International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE) is accepting papers for its online international conference, entitled Intercultural Education on the Move: Facing Old and New Challenges, which will be held on 1st and 2nd October 2022.
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From individual to relational resilience in ELT
Research on language teacher resilience has tended to focus too much on the ‘individual self’ at the expense of relational understandings. Is it time to rethink this?
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Thinking of TESOL as an ecology of ideas
What does it mean if everything we do in language education is connected to everything else? This post explores some theoretical and practical implications of viewing languguage education as an ecology
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Language Diversity in Greece (Book Review)
I have always had an interest in scholarship that challenges monolingual narratives. This was why I was very excited when I was asked to review Linguistic Diversity in Greece, a volume edited by four prominent Greek linguists (Skourtou et al., 2020). The edited collection looks into various marginalised linguistic communities in Greece, and showcases the…