I am an applied linguist, specializing in language teacher education and TESOL.
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Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference (Call for Papers)
The Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics are inviting proposals for their Annual Conference, to be held on 3rd-5th June 2013 at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. The conference Plenary Sessions include: There will also be a symposium convened by Shahrzad Saif (Université Laval, Québec) on The language proficiency of International Teaching Assistants in Canadian Universities: training,…
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Call for Papers: Language and Super-diversity
Language and Super-diversity: Explorations and interrogations University of Jyväskylä, Finland (June 5-7, 2013) The annual conference organised by the University of Jyväskylä Department of Languages and Centre for Applied Language Studies (who will be joined this year by the International Consortium on Language and Super-diversity [link no longer active]) will bring together scholars from a variety of linguistic fields (e.g. linguistics, sociolinguistics, sociology…
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Just how effective are the University Entrance Exams?
Every year tens of thousands of students in Greece sit the University Entrance Exams. They deserve to be assessed with fairness. There’s much we can can do better in this regard.
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Linguistics Research Digest
This blog was brought to my attention when they published a summary of Rob Drummond‘s article on phonological variation among the Polish community in Manchester (the article, which is well worth a read, can be accessed here). The digests of linguistics articles that are published in the blog are concise, very clearly written, extremely informative…
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The Great Greek Vowel Controversy
As far as scientific disciplines go, linguistics is probably not the most contentious that springs to mind. And yet, in 2012, Greek linguistics became the centre of a seemingly ludicrous controversy over a school textbook. This article describes what has come to be known as the Great Greek Vowel Controversy, or the Φωνηεντιάδα. What happened?…
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On the University Entrance Exams
The University Entrance Exams in Greece are often criticised about being too hard. This post explains why such criticism is misguided and unfair.
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Understanding the dynamics of a language classroom
This post outlines the physical, institutional, methodological and human aspects of an ELT context.
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Researching Multilingually
On May 23rd, I had the privilege of attending the Researching Multilingually seminar that was hosted by The University of Manchester, where I presented a brief talk about the various alternatives available for representing bilingual data in research output. In a nutshell, my argument was that there are many different considerations (intentionalities) that need to…
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“The successful candidate will be a native speaker of American English”
I recently blogged about an assistant professorship being advertised by the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Readers may have noted that the advert is very specifically targeted at suitably qualified candidates who are “native speaker[s] of American English, or have near-native command of American English”. This is a noteworthy requirement for several reasons: Pragmatically, it is interesting to…