I am an applied linguist, specializing in language teacher education and TESOL.
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Researching Language and Linguistics: Bridging Gaps [Call for papers]
The University of Birmingham English Language Postgraduate Conference (BELP) will be held on 7th March 2014 at the Orchard Learning Resource Centre (OLRC), Selly Oak Campus, University of Birmingham. This year’s conference theme is “Researching Language and Linguistics: Bridging Gaps.” Plenary addresses will be delivered by Professors Svenja Adolphs (University of Nottingham) and Susan Hunston (University of Birmingham). Postgraduate students…
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Humanities, defamation and internships
This is a collection of blog posts, articles and other content about Higher Education, language teaching and learning and academic writing, which were published between the 13th and 19th January 2014. This week’s stories discuss: The value of a humanities education In an essay published at the Chronicle, Kristen Case argues against the criticism that humanities…
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Writing effective questionnaire items in language education research (Part 1)
If you are doing a quantitative research in language education, this post will help you to avoid three of the most common problems involved in the construction of questionnaire items.
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Reading Digest (6 – 12 January)
Spanning topics from schools, to language policy, to the job market, here’s a selection of stories, articles and posts from the previous week: Children playing pirates An argument could easily be made that since developing children’s creativity and broadening their intellectual horizons is a worthier cause than safeguarding corporate profit, schools should be exempt from…
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Can I publish a conference paper in a journal?
Before recycling your conference paper into a publication, here are three things you need to consider.
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Reading Digest (30 Dec – 5 Jan)
Starting off the new year with a fresh selection of articles, stories and posts which grabbed my attention in the past week: Next time, let’s read the fine print… Writing in the wake of Elsevier’s takedown operation, Barbara Fischer, a college librarian provides some insights into the fine print of academic publishing. Her blog post,…
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Fake papers: what do they reveal about the academe?
I think it’s fair to say that 2013 was a year that put the peer-review process to the test: In addition to the much-discussed ‘sting’ operation that was published in Science, in the past year we read about several cases in which hoax papers managed to find a home in academic journals. Some papers were…
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2013 Top Posts
I started this blog almost two years ago, but I think it’s fair to say that 2013 was the year when it really took off. In this last entry for 2013, I want to showcase some of the more successful posts that I have published so far. The easiest way to measure the impact of…
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Reading Digest (23-29 December)
Predictably, this has been a relatively quiet week in terms of academic news. Still, here is the weekly round up of notable articles, posts and stories that I came across in the week between 23rd and 29th December 2013: Cracking down on knowledge sharing The first story that caught my attention this week was about…