Applied Linguistics &
Language Teacher Education
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Innovations in the Teaching of English and World Languages from a Decolonial Perspective [Call for Chapters]
Call for Chapters for an edited volume that will explore decolonial perspectives on language teacher preparation.
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Language education for refugees and migrants: An intentional dynamics perspective
Language education for refugees and migrants is a topic that has received much less attention than it deserves. Two recently completed MA dissertations provide some insights in this complex topic.
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Rebuilding ELT as a Resilient Profession
On 8th – 9th October 2021, I had the privilege of being invited to deliver a plenary talk at the 10th ELT Malta Conference. This was one of the first conferences to be held internationally following the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, and at the time (a time when vaccines had been rolled out…
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What are linguists good for? An introduction to critical linguistics
More than a century ago, Prof. Jan Baudouin de Courtenay enraged Russian authorities by adding ‘indecent’ words to the Russian dictionary. What might this incident tell us about linguistics?
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Classroom Observations: A how-to guide
Classroom obvervations can be challenging. This guide describes a series of steps that can help you to plan, conduct and reflect on a visit to a language classroom.
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Language Policy in Higher Education
WORKSHOP: Universities are sites where local languages, standard national languages, and English as a global language come into contact. What does this mean in terms of language policy?
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Liberating Language Education
This is an extended version of the review I write for Liberating Language Education (Lytra et al., 2021) for Linguist List.
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Intercultural Education on the Move [Call for Papers]
The International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE) is accepting papers for its online international conference, entitled Intercultural Education on the Move: Facing Old and New Challenges, which will be held on 1st and 2nd October 2022.
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From individual to relational resilience in ELT
Research on language teacher resilience has tended to focus too much on the ‘individual self’ at the expense of relational understandings. Is it time to rethink this?
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