I am an applied linguist, specializing in language teacher education and TESOL.
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No child is unwelcome here: ELT tutoring for refugee children
One of the less visible aspects of the refugee crisis is that the refugee children have their education disrupted. They often have difficulty enrolling in the formal education systems of their host countries, and even when they do, they usually need a lot of extra support. To help provide some of the support needed, we at the…
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Punctuation..?
I was delighted to receive, a few days ago, a copy of Punctuation..?, a short reference book published by User Design. Unlike more cumbersome style guides, Punctuation..? is quite concise: it spans 35 A5-size pages. These contain 21 sections, focusing on different punctuation marks, such as ‘square brackets’ or ‘semi colon’. Each section describes the…
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37th TESOL Greece Annual Convention
The Conference The 37th Annual Convention of TESOL Greece will take place on the 19th and 20th March 2016, in the Goethe Institut in Athens (Omirou 14-16). This year’s convention is titled Join the Education R-Evolution and it aims to provide a venue for discussing what techniques, methods and practices could be considered ‘revolutionary’ in ELT, and “how to merge…
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The Lingua controversy
You have probably read about the mass resignation of all the editorial board and the reviewers of Lingua, a prestigious journal published by Elsevier [in November 2015]. For those of you who may have missed it, here are some highlights. What happened? Last July, the editors of Lingua asked Elsevier to renegotiate the way the journal worked.…
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Drunken Aussies, Upgrading to PhD, and the REF
This post was part of a series of posts curating internet content about language, linguistics and higher education between 2013 and 2015. Much of the content of the post is no longer current, but it is retained here for archival reasons. I’ve been in my new post in Graz for a month now, and life…
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On Language Learning Strategies
A narrative account of the Situating Strategies in Use conference in Klagenfurt (2015).
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Multilingual Language Learning with Digital Media
[Archive] Call for papers for a conference focussing on digitally assisted multilingiual language learning that took place in 2015.
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Join us for Prof Werner Delanoy’s seminar in Graz!
Those of you who are in Graz or nearby might be interested in attending a seminar by Assoc. Prof. Werner Delanoy, which will be hosted by Fachdidaktik Anglistik at the University of Graz. In this seminar, titled Transculturality as a New Paradigm for Culture Learning, Prof. Delanoy will discuss the concept of Transculturality, defined as…
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Language Learning Strategies and Individual Learning Characteristics
Update: Published! I am very happy to announce that Language Learning Strategies and Individual Learner Characteristics, the edited collection described in the call for papers below, has just been published by Bloomsbury. The volume, which is edited by Rebecca Oxford and Carmen Amerstorfer, describes the connections between the intrapersonal characteristics of language learners, the language learning…