Category: Language Teaching & Learning (All)
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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.
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ReaLiTea: September 2024 update
A brief update on the progress of the ReaLiTea project so far, and some thoughts on the importance of teacher research literacy.
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What has linguistics ever done for us, really?
Linguistics has evolved over time, shaping societal concerns. This post traces some of these changes, and attempts to answer what the value of linguistic inquiry has been across the ages.
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Children’s Literature in English Language Education Journal
A few words about the Literature in English Language Education Journal, a diamond open access journal for ELT teachers and researchers.
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Complex Dynamic Systems Theory as a meta-theory for language education
Language classrooms are never static: every learner, every interaction, and every context shifts from moment to moment. Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) provides a framework for making sense of this complexity, showing teachers how to embrace change, adapt to uncertainty, and design learning that reflects real classroom dynamics. This post contains somre reflections about how…
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Making a difference: The LRM teacher placement
My primary role in the Language Education for Refugees and Migrants programme is to coordinate the teching placement module. This post outlines what this involves, and why I think it is important.