Category: Complexity and ELT
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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
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Complexity Theory & Language Development: A review of Ortega & Han (2017)
The Linguist List has published my review of ‘Complexity Theory and Language Development. You can read a revised version of the review in this post.
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Describing a school as a complex system
In this extract from my book, A Language School as a Complex System, I discuss why it makes sense to describe a school through the lens of a complex systems theory, and I outline some advantages that such a perspective brings.
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Complexity theory in language education – What is it?
This extract from my book ‘A Language School as a Complex System’ discusses what complex systems are and why it they are useful when thinking about language education.
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Complex Systems Theory as a Shared Discourse Space for TESOL
In June 2018, I (Achilleas Kostoulas), Juup Stelma, Sarah Mercer, Lynne Cameron and Susan Dawson published an article on Complex Systems Theory and TESOL. This post discusses the article and presents some background information.
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A Language School as a Complex System: Why did I write this book?
In this extract from ‘A Language School as a Complex System’, I explain what the purpose of the book is, and what contribution I hope to make. I also write about a more personal reason that motivated the writing of the book.
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A Language School as a Complex System
This is a post announcing the publication of my latest book, A Language School as a Complex System. In the post you can find a very brief summary of what the book is about, and what it aims to do.
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Intentionality & Complex Systems Theory in Language Education
Some information about a chapter, by me and Juup Stelma, which brings Intentionality and Complex Systems Theory in Language Education
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How can complexity inform ELT? Diane Larsen-Freeman has some ideas
Yesterday, I blogged about this symposium that aims to explore the ‘connectivities’ of ELT, i.e, the ways in which ELT bridges languages, cultures and disciplinary boundaries. The more I think of the symposium topic, the more interesting it seems; but at the same time, I am becoming increasingly conscious that ELT theory has perhaps failed…