Category: Language Teaching & Learning (All)
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Classroom Observation for language teachers: A how-to guide
Learn how to plan, conduct, and reflect on classroom observations with this step-by-step guide for teachers, student teachers, and supervisors.
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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?
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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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Thinking of TESOL as an ecology of ideas
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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The Intentional Dynamics of TESOL
This is a short introduction to the monograph The Intentional Dynamics of TESOL that I co-authored with Juup Stelma (De Gruyter, 2021).
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MA in Language Education for Refugees and Migrants
Overview of the MA Language Education for Refugees and Migrants, an online postgraduate programme for language teachers offered by the Hellenic Open University.
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A classroom observation framework
Conducting classroom observations is one of the most effective ways to develop as a teacher. But classrooms are so information-rich that the experience can be overwhelming. How do you decide what to look out for?
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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 umbilical cord from its disciplinary beginnings? This blog post explores the connections between the two disciplines.
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Raising children to speak many languages
Summary of the article “Family language policy in mixed-language families: An exploratory study of online parental discourses” (Kostoulas & Motsiou 2020).