Applied Linguistics for Language Education
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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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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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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…
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Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching: How are they different?
Language teaching is becoming increasingly autonomous from Applied Linguistics. But has it actually cut the ubmilical cord from its disciplinary beginnings? This blog post explores the connections between the two disciplines.
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What is applied linguistics?
Despite claims that language teachers do not need to know much theory, applied linguistics remains an important part of language teacher education. Here’s why.
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Is there a talent for language learning?
This post discusses Language Learning Aptitude, a psycholinguistics construct which refers to a ‘talent’ for learning foreign languages effortlessly.