I am an applied linguist, specializing in language teacher education and TESOL.
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A thank you note!
What I want to do in this post is thank everyone who attended our TEYL panel in IATEFL, and the Complexity Roundtable that followed the conference. It was truly great to meet many of you in person, and we – my colleagues and I – learnt a lot from the insights and feedback that you all…
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Meet our IATEFL panel!
As I announced a couple of months ago, I am proud to chair a panel discussion focussing on Young Learners in this year’s IATEFL convention. The panel is titled: Teaching English to Young Learners: Some International perspectives and you can read more about it here. In this post, I want to introduce the brilliant teachers and scholars who…
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Call for Chapters: English-Medium Instruction in Japan
A call for chapters has been issued for an edited collection focussing on English Medium Instruction (EMI) in Japanese higher education. The book, to be edited by Howard Brown (University of Niigata), aims to generate “a picture of EMI in Japan, its development, its current situation and its future”, by looking into topics such as “how…
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Manchester Roundtable on Complexity Theory and ELT
About this post: This is a post advertising a workshop that took place in 2015. The information is no longer current, but I am keeping it here for archival reasons. You can read more about the Manchester Roundtable by visiting our website. You may also want to read about the TESOL Journal article that came…
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Are there limits to what one can talk about?
This post discusses attempts to regulate free speech in academic contexts in 2015. The content is no longer current, but is preserved here for archival purposes.
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The history of ELT: A different perspective
I am willing to venture that, at some point in their careers, all the readers of this blog attended some kind of ‘Approaches and Methods’ module, which most likely traced the development of language teaching as a progression of methods, ranging from Grammar-Translation to Task-Based Learning. This sequence of methods, which -after a flash of inspiration moments ago- I call the progression narrative, is so familiar…
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UK lecturers in the Greek government; open peer review; and Harry Potter marketing
About this post: This is a collection of news and articles about Higher Education and language teaching, which appeared in 2015. This week’s collection of stories, articles and blog posts about higher education, looks into topics ranging from the influence of British universities on Greek politics to the influence of Harry Potter novels on higher education…
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Complexity in ELT: What it is and what it isn’t
A definition of Complex Systems Theory, as used in language education and applied linguistics.
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Five benefits of attending conferences
The latest issue of English Language Teaching Journal has an interesting article, by Simon Borg, which describes what ELT professionals perceive as the benefits of participating in conferences. Unfortunately the article is behind a paywall, but if you or your institution have a subscription to ELT J, you can follow the link below: Borg, S. (2015). The…