I am an applied linguist, specializing in language teacher education and TESOL.
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Why do we call it morphology?
A student in an MA course in Linguistics was puzzled about the naming conventions of the discipline. He asked: If morphology is the study of word-structure, why can’t it be called wordology? There are two answers to that: the simplest one is that the term is derived from the Greek ‘morphe’ [form], and science has…
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Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes: New Issue and CfP
This post, first published in 2013, marks a milestone in the publication of the Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes. It is retained here as part of this site’s historical record of developments in language teaching publishing. In a previous blog post, I wrote about the Journal of Teaching English for Specific…
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Reading Digest (15-22 December)
Here’s a round up of various articles, posts and stories I came across in the past week: Is this the future of academics? The How I Get By series in Vitae describes the diverse everyday lives of academics: in one of the most powerful articles I’ve read this week, they present an interview with Mary-Faith Cerasoli, an…
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Doing research without a control group
This article discusses control groups in second language teaching research, and whether these might be omitted from a research design.
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Advances in the investigation of L3 phonological acquisition [Call for Papers]
Call for papers Researchers interested in third language (L3) phonology are invited to participate in a dedicated workshop to be held at the 2014 congress of Societas Linguistica Europaea (link no longer active). The workshop, which will be convened by Magdalena Wrembel (Adam Mickiewicz University) and Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro (Department of Foreign Languages, United States Air…
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Attention, Authority, and Access: Notes from December 2013
The economics of academic attention, language and institutional power, gender segregation, French language policy… These were some of the things in my mind in December 2013.
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7th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca [ELF7]
An announcement and CfP of the ELF7 international conference
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Canadian Modern Language Review Special Issue 16 [Call for proposals]
The Canadian Modern Language Review are inviting proposals for the 16th special issue of the journal. According to the call for proposals: Proposals should identify a contemporary topic which will allow for the exploration of recent advances in theory, research, and practice in second language learning and teaching. The proposed topic should also be one that…
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Recognizing complexity in language learning and teaching
A conference announcement for the 10th BAAL LLT SIG annual convention.