Announcements
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From individual to relational resilience in ELT
Research on language teacher resilience has tended to focus too much on the ‘individual self’ at the expense of relational understandings. Is it time to rethink this?
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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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Complex Systems Theory as a Shared Discourse Space for TESOL
In June 2018, I (Achilleas Kostoulas), Juup Stelma, Sarah Mercer, Lynne Cameron and Susan Dawson published an article on Complex Systems Theory and TESOL. This post discusses the article and presents some background information.
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Postdoc position in ELT at the University of Graz
A new job opportunity in our ELT Research and Methodology team! We are looking for a postdoctoral research associate – read on for more details.
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A Language School as a Complex System
This is a post announcing the publication of my latest book, A Language School as a Complex System. In the post you can find a very brief summary of what the book is about, and what it aims to do.
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Intentionality & Complex Systems Theory in Language Education
Some information about a chapter, by me and Juup Stelma, which brings Intentionality and Complex Systems Theory in Language Education
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No child is unwelcome here: ELT tutoring for refugee children
One of the less visible aspects of the refugee crisis is that the refugee children have their education disrupted. They often have difficulty enrolling in the formal education systems of their host countries, and even when they do, they usually need a lot of extra support. To help provide some of the support needed, we at the…
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Join us for Prof Werner Delanoy’s seminar in Graz!
Those of you who are in Graz or nearby might be interested in attending a seminar by Assoc. Prof. Werner Delanoy, which will be hosted by Fachdidaktik Anglistik at the University of Graz. In this seminar, titled Transculturality as a New Paradigm for Culture Learning, Prof. Delanoy will discuss the concept of Transculturality, defined as…
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New job, new beginnings
As some of you might already know, next month (October 2015) I am moving to a new academic home at the University of Graz, where I will join the Department of English Studies (Institut für Anglistik). Among other things, I’ll be responsible for teaching two undergraduate courses to future language teachers: an Introduction to Foreign Language Didactics, and an…