Language Teaching & Learning (All)
-
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.
-
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…
-
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?
-
Classroom Observation: 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.
-
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?
-
Liberating Language Education
This is an extended version of the review I write for Liberating Language Education (Lytra et al., 2021) for Linguist List.
-
Thinking of TESOL as an ecology
What does it mean if everything we do in language education is connected to everything else? This post explores some theoretical and practical implications of viewing languguage education as an ecology
-
The Intentional Dynamics of TESOL
I have just learnt from our publishers, de Gruyter Mouton, that the book I have writing with Juup Stelma, The Intentional Dynamics of TESOL, is on the final printing stages, and that it will be available for purchase from 10th May onwards. This seems like a good time to say a few words about the…
-
MA in Language Education for Refugees and Migrants
Some of you may know that I have recently become involved in teaching at the Language Education for Refugees and Migrants (LRM) postgraduate course, offered by the Hellenic Open University. I suppose it was only natural that I found an academic home where I could bring together language teacher education, an area of work where…