Category: Language Teaching & Learning (All)
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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).
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International Mother Language Day 2019
Facts, figures and thoughts regarding linguistic diversity, globally and in Greece.
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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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Becoming Research Literate: Supporting Teacher Research in ELT
Daniel Xerri and Ceres Pioquinto have put together an edited collection on research literacy for language educators (Becoming Research Literate: Supporting Teacher Research in ELT), which is free to download. This post describes the book, and my own contribution to it, and includes a link to download the book.
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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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Working with refugee-background learners
I recently wrote about a project (Critical Skills for Life and Work) we did at the University of Graz, which aimed to help people with a refugee or migrant background with their professional integration. One of the things I did, as part of my involvement in the project, was to familiarise myself with existing literature…