I am an applied linguist, specializing in language teacher education and TESOL.
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Restructuring Higher Education, the Greek way
People familiar with Higher Education in Greece may have heard of the ambitious ministerial plan to restructure tertiary institutions. The plan, which goes by the evocative name Athena (after the Ancient Greek goddess of wisdom), aims to reduce the geographical overdispersal of educational institutions and stimulate academic excellence, we are told. We are also told…
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Researching Multilingually: An emerging methodology for doctoral research (26th Feb 2013, Durham University)
Update (May 2017) This is a post advertising a workshop that took place in 2013. The content is no longer current, and it is kept here for archival reasons only. If you have landed on this page looking for ideas or advice on how to conduct mutlilingual research, this link will take you to a…
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Can You Take the Mean of Likert Scale Data? Ordinal vs Interval Explained
A lot of research, in applied linguistics and language education at least, relies on a recurring statistical mistake: averaging ordinal data, such as that produced by Likert scales. Here’s why you shouldn’t do it, and what you should do instead.
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Publish and perish
“How many points would Louis Pasteur, Henri Poincaré, Claude Shannon, Tim Berners-Lee and others nowadays earn within the new academic evaluation system?” The latest issue of Computer Assisted Language Learning carries a thought-provoking editorial on the “publish or perish” syndrome. Jozef Colpaert, the editor, argues that the evaluation practices currently in place in the academe are ultimately…
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Call for Papers: Meeting on English Language Teaching
Meeting on English Language Teaching (MELT) 22 April 2013 The Meeting on English Language Teaching (MELT) is an annual event that focuses on language teaching in tertiary education. This year’s event, which will be hosted by the École de Langues at the Université du Québec à Montréal, will focus on second language assessment. Submissions are invited…
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Language Testing in Europe: Time for a New Framework?
This post, originally published in 2012 refers to an academic event in the past. It is retained here as part of this site’s historical record of developments in ESP publishing. Language Testing in Europe: Time for a New Framework? The Second International Conference on Language Testing, to be held in Antwerp from 27 to 29…
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CLIL in Greece: Uncritical and Unhelpful
The Greek ELT apparatus suddenly become obsessed with CLIL. This post looks into its critical adoption and asks uncomfortable questions.
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Reading list for CLIL
Back in 2012, when I was still more actively involved in English Language Teaching, I wrote a post about Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and the ways in which it is implemented in Greek education. In an attempt to preserve readability and maintain focus on my main argument, that CLIL was used in ways…
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BAAL 2013 (Call for papers)
The 46th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) will take place in Edinburgh, on 5th – 7th September 2013. The theme of this year’s conference is “Opening New Lines of Communication in Applied Linguistics’. Plenery speakers will include Kathryn Woolard (University of California, San Diego), Jannis Androutsopoulos (Universität Hamburg) and Svenja Adolphs (University of Nottingham).…