I am an applied linguist, specializing in language teacher education and TESOL.
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How to Interpret Likert Scales: Midpoints, Means, Medians and Statistical Significance
Learn how to interpret Likert scale data: understand true midpoints, why medians are better than means, and how to test significance.
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How to maximise research impact (free resources)
Access a free handbook with advice on understanding and maximising impact for social scientists.
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Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes
This post, first published in 2013, marks the launch of the TESEP Journal. It is retained here as part of this site’s historical record of developments in language education publishing.
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BAAL Intercultural Communication SIG Annual seminar 2014
This two-day seminar will focus on the theme ‘Language Teaching and Language Learning’, taking a broad view of the diverse contexts in which intercultural communication is developed through the medium of language. In seeking to promote inter-disciplinary dialogue, the Committee would like to invite abstracts from researchers and practitioners developing empirical work in relevant areas.…
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Academic writing: Some resources
This post was originally written for The Doctoral Community @ LTE (link no longer active :/ ). A number of links have gone inactive since the article was written, although I do make an effort to update it every November. As some of you might be aware, November is Academic Writing Month, so I thought that it might…
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EAP teachers’ perceptions of learner motivation
Heartiest congratulations to Lou Harvey, whose article, EAP teachers’ perceptions of learner motivation, has just been accepted for publication in the upcoming issue of the the International Student Experience Journal! In Lou’s words: This article reports on a qualitative study of four EAP teachers. The teachers perceived the major influences on their learners’ motivation to be Teacher/student…
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“Open access: six myths to put to rest”
Since writing my post on Open Access, this article by Peter Suber, the director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, was brought to my attention. In response to what are described as six “common and harmful misunderstandings about open access”, the author notes that: 1. (Gold) Open Access journals are not the only venue for providing…
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Open Access: Some facts and some thoughts
Some key concepts about Open Access publishing.
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Book review published
I am happy to announce the publication of my review for Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, a volume edited by Maria García Mayo, Maria Junkal Gutierrez Mangado and Maria Martínez Adrián. The review is available online at the Linguist List website.