I am an applied linguist, specializing in language teacher education and TESOL.
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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.
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Language teaching and learning beyond mainstream populations
These three chapters in ‘Challenging Boundaries in Language Education’ discuss how we might understand and empower populations at the ‘fringe’ of language education theory and practice. Whether it is by capitalising on the linguistic resources of multilingual students, reflecting on the experiences of study abroad students or understanding the challenges of third age language educators,…
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Becoming Research Literate: Supporting Teacher Research in ELT
Daniel Xerri and Ceres Pioquinto have put together an edited collection on research literacy for language educators (Becoming Research Literate: Supporting Teacher Research in ELT), which is free to download. This post describes the book, and my own contribution to it, and includes a link to download the book.
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How to spot a predatory journal (and why to avoid them!)
Publishing your work in a predatory journal is a very bad career move. This post explains why, and presents a list of six criteria to help you avoid this mistake.