Category: Refugees & Migrants
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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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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.
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Language education for refugees and migrants: An intentional dynamics perspective
Language education for refugees and migrants is a topic that has received much less attention than it deserves. Two recently completed MA dissertations provide some insights in this complex topic.
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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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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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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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International Mother Language Day 2019
Facts, figures and thoughts regarding linguistic diversity, globally and in Greece.
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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…