Category: Language Teaching & Learning (All)
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The first week of the LocalLing event in Volos
A description of the first week of the LocalLing meeting in Volos, coorganised by the University of Thessaly and Tallinn University.
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Towards Critical ELF pedagogy
English learners can speak clearly and correctly, yet still be exploited, marginalised, or unheard. A critical ELF perspective starts asks what language education should do when communication works, but justice does not.
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From Mastery to Judgement: Rethinking AI Professional Development in Language Education
We brought together 40 educators to explore AI in language education. What they valued wasn’t tool training or technical skills. It was increased confidence, clearer judgement, and the space to ask whether AI should be used at all.
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The Languages Education Iceberg: Understanding participation and outcomes in language education
Language education is often described as being in crisis, but the picture becomes more nuanced if we look closer. This post explores how Complexity Theory helps us see why some schools thrive while others struggle, and what that means for the future of languages education.
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The AI ‘alignment problem’ in language education and applied linguistics
Drawing on a recent publication (Curry et al., 2025), this post reflects on how AI aligns (or fail to align?) with the epistemological, ontological, and ethical values of applied linguistics and language education.
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Schoolscapes Aren’t Neutral: Language Teaching for Inclusion
This post explores ways in which language teachers can engage learners through schoolscapes, i.e., posters, signs, and visual texts that shape language ideologies. With real-world examples, it shows how classrooms can reflect and promote multilingual inclusion.
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Enhancing Teacher Research Literacy: Developments at the Ankara meeting of the ReaLiTea project
In the April 2025 meeting of the ReaLiTea group, we made solid progress towards creating materials for developing the research literacy of language teachers and more. You can read about our work in this post.
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The AI Lang BarCamp: AI for Language Education
An invitation to share your practical ideas about AI-assisted language education in a BarCamp (informal expert meeting) in November 2024.
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Complex Dynamic Systems Theory in Language Education
This post provides an overview of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory, as used in language teaching and learning. It provides a historical overview, a description of the theory and an outline of three major strands of complexity-inspired scholarship.