I am an applied linguist, specializing in language teacher education and TESOL.
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Fake papers are not the real problem in science
In case you missed it, the ‘big story’ in academic news in the past week was the retraction of more than 120 papers that had been published by Springer and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). The retraction followed the discovery, by Dr. Cyril Labbé of Joseph Fourier University, that all the fake…
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43rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest [Call for papers]
43rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO XLIII) will be held on 18th – 20th September 2014 in San Diego, California. The theme for this year’s conference is “Heritage Languages (of the Southwest) in the era of e–learning”. Call for papers…
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How to interpret Ordinal Data: Median and Interquartile Range for Likert Scales
Let’s assume that you have prepared a questionnaire, where respondents had to select among responses ranging from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree”. For convenience, you have probably followed the established practice of replacing these responses with numbers: “1” for “strongly disagree”, “2” for “agree” and so on. How do you go about analysing these data?
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Science self-corrections, plagiarism, and the purpose of higher education
About this post: This is a summary of blog posts, articles and other content about Higher Education, language teaching and learning, and academic writing, which appeared online between 17th and 23rd February 2014. This week’s collection of articles, stories and posts showcases examples of academic honesty at its finest and politics at what is perhaps…
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International Mother Language Day
Information about language policy, and minority and heritage langauges in Greece, written on to commemorate the International Mother Language Day.
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Cutting Edges 2014 [Call for papers]
Update This is a post advertising an academic event that took place in Canterbury in 2014. The content is no longer current and it is retained here for archival purposes only. If you are interested in receiving timely updates on academic events about language teaching and learning, you may want to consider following this blog.
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Anglica: An International Journal of English Studies [Call for papers]
The issue of Anglica advertised below was published in late 2014, and you can access the table of contents here. Call for papers Contributions in English linguistics are invited for volume 23 of Anglica: An International Journal of English Studies, a peer-reviewed annual print journal published by Warsaw University Press. Some suggested topics include: language…
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Plagiarism, creationism and attacks on tenure
This post is a roundup of academic-related stories, articles and other content that appeared online between 10 and 16 February 2014. Plagiarism case of the month Every month, the Committee On Publication Ethics (COPE), an authoritative forum of journal editors, publishes a report summarising its activities. This month’s report features an interesting case of academic…
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NATESOL Conference 2014 [Call for papers]
The 2014 NATESOL Conference, which is organised in association with the IATEFL Literature, Media & Cultural Studies SIG, is set to take place on 10th May 2014 (9 am – 5 pm), in Salford City College, Walkden Campus, Manchester. The conference theme is “Transferring identity from the page to the classroom: contemporary literature as a resource for language…