I am an applied linguist, specializing in language teacher education and TESOL.
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New job, new beginnings
As some of you might already know, next month (October 2015) I am moving to a new academic home at the University of Graz, where I will join the Department of English Studies (Institut für Anglistik). Among other things, I’ll be responsible for teaching two undergraduate courses to future language teachers: an Introduction to Foreign Language Didactics, and an…
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Language research, performance and the creative arts
If you happen to be in or around Leeds next month, you might be interested in a one-day seminar organised jointly by the University of Leeds Centre for Language Education Research (CLER) and members of the AHRC-funded Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the Body, Law and the State project. The seminar, which will take place on Friday…
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How can complexity inform ELT? (Video by Diane Larsen-Freeman)
Yesterday, I blogged about this symposium that aims to explore the ‘connectivities’ of English Language Teaching (ELT), i.e, how ELT bridges languages, cultures and disciplinary boundaries. The more I think of the symposium topic, the more interesting it seems; but at the same time, I am becoming increasingly conscious that ELT theory has perhaps failed…
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Call for papers: Strengthening connectivities in ELT: Pedagogies, disciplines and cultures
If you landed on this page looking for information on interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches to language education, you may be interested in reading about Challenging Boundaries in Language Education, an edited collection that I edited (2019, Springer). Strengthening connectivities in ELT: Pedagogies, disciplines and culturesSingapore 25-27 May 2016 One of my PhD supervisors used to…
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Language testing for no reason
What happened when the school administrators decided to introduce a new exam without asking anyone if it was needed…
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Individuals in Contexts – Psychology of Language Learning 2
Update (July 2018) This is a post about an academic conference that took place in 2016. The content is no longer current, and it is maintained here for archival purposes only. At the conference, Anita Lämmerer and I presented ongoing work on language teacher resilience. These presentations were later developed as: Kostoulas, A. and Lämmerer,…
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Innovative writing in English language teacher education and development
Update 2016 The special issue described below has been published and can be accessed from the link below. ELDED 20: Innovative Writing in English Language Teacher Education and Development; Table of Contents I hope you enjoy reading the articles as much as I did. Call for papers Of all the calls for papers that find…
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On Grexit and Solidarity
There are two reasons for writing this post: One is to express my sincere gratitude to colleagues and friends who have come forward with generous offers of help, at what has been a challenging time for people in Greece; and the other is to pass along a very kind offer that may be of interest…
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13th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA 2016)
ALA 2016 The 13th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA 2016) is to be held at the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna) on 19-22 July 2016. The topic of this year’s conference is Languages for Life: Educational, Professional and Social Contexts. Plenaries Confirmed plenary speakers include: Veronika Koller (Lancaster University) Almut Köster (Vienna University of Economics and Business) Aneta Pavlenko (Temple…