I am an applied linguist, specializing in language teacher education and TESOL.
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Transgressing Curricular Borderlines in Language Education
The first chapters of the Challenging Boundaries in Language Education have been submitted. The focus of both these contributions, by Katerina Vourdanou and Dietmar Tatzl, is on combining language education with other curricular objectives.
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Complex Systems Theory as a Shared Discourse Space for TESOL
In June 2018, I (Achilleas Kostoulas), Juup Stelma, Sarah Mercer, Lynne Cameron and Susan Dawson published an article on Complex Systems Theory and TESOL. This post discusses the article and presents some background information.
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What happens to an article after it has been submitted to a journal?
This post describes the hidden processes that take place before an article appears in an academic journal.
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A Language School as a Complex System: Why did I write this book?
In this extract from ‘A Language School as a Complex System’, I explain what the purpose of the book is, and what contribution I hope to make. I also write about a more personal reason that motivated the writing of the book.
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What is applied linguistics?
Despite claims that language teachers do not need to know much theory, applied linguistics remains an important part of language teacher education. Here’s why.
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Language Teacher Psychology
Some thoughts about the recently published volume that Sarah Mercer and I co-edited.
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Postdoc position in ELT at the University of Graz
A new job opportunity in our ELT Research and Methodology team! We are looking for a postdoctoral research associate – read on for more details.
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Peer review: The good, the bad and the ugly
What can we learn from bad feedback?
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Challenging Boundaries in Language Education
This edited collection, entitled Challenging Boundaries in Language Education, was published by Springer as part of the Second Language Learning and Teaching series. You can read about how it began in this post.