I am an applied linguist, specializing in language teacher education and TESOL.
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Breaching confidentiality in research
Researchers have a duty to protect the anonymity of study participants, even from law enforcement agencies.
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Critical Perspectives on Neoliberalism in Language Education [Call for papers]
The 2014 Special Issue of L2 journal, guest-edited by Katie Bernstein, Emily Hellmich, Noah Katznelson, Jaran Shin, Kimberly Vinall, will focus on Critical Perspectives on Neoliberalism in Language Education. The editors note that: This special issue seeks to build on previous work related to globalization, language standardization, multilingual subjectivities, and linguistic imperialism, amongst other related topics. By…
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Dealing with demographic data in language education research
This post will teach you how to effectively design a demographic section for a quantitative study in language education. The post looks into the purposes that this section serves; goes on to point out common problems; and concludes with practical advice.
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Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication 5 [Call for papers]
[Archive] Call for papers for the Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communications Conference in 2014.
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Research misconduct, tuition fees and enrollment
About this post: This is a summary of posts, articles and other content about Higher Education, language teaching and learning and academic writing, which was published in late January 2015. University life getting uglier Since the introduction of £9,000 tuition fees, there appears to have been a marked increase in the numbers of students who…
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Mandated action research
Action research refers to a special type of small-scale, practically-oriented studies that professionals (such as teachers) carry out in their professional settings, in order to address some specific aspect of their practice that needs improvement. Although it may appear narrower in scope than the kind of research that is carried out by professional researchers, and…
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Is the ‘endangered languages’ movement threatening linguistics?
Archive: This post was published in 2014. As of 2026, the link mentioned in the post is no longer active. However, the post is retained for archival purposes. On 15th October 2014, Paul Newman (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Indiana University) delivered a lecture at the School of Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of London, which was titled ‘The Law of…
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Arizona Working Papers in SLA and Teaching [Call for Papers]
Update (January 2015) This is a post advertising a call for papers issued by Arizona Working Papers in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching in 2014. The issue advertised below was published in Volume 21, and you can access it by following this link. You can find more Calls for Papers on linguistics, applied linguistics, language education and…
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Writing effective questionnaire items in language education research (Part 2)
This post contains practical advice that will help you to formulate and sequence the items in your questionnaire. It is mainly addressed to students working in language education, but much of the content can be applied in most of quantitative research.