Category: Announcements
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Chapter published: Understanding and Challenging ‘the Known’
In this post I summarise the chapter Understanting and Challenging the Known from a Complexity Perspective (Kostoulas, 2014)
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Interruption of service
[Archive] A brief announement regarding this blog.
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Announcing the ELF7 Pre-conference event
With the 7th Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF7; link no longer active) drawing near, a pre-conference panel discussion will be held on 8th May 2014 (6-9pm, ALBA at The American College of Greece). This is definitely going to be an interesting discussion, as the panel members include: Yasemin Bayyurt, Boğaziçi University, Turkey Richard…
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Book review published
I am happy to announce the publication of my review for Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, a volume edited by Maria García Mayo, Maria Junkal Gutierrez Mangado and Maria Martínez Adrián. The review is available online at the Linguist List website.
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After Schools: Project conclusion
Tomorrow the After Schools Project team will present their final report on evaluation of the After School extra-curricular clubs that were piloted at the 2nd Model Experimental Primary School of Ioannina. Report The submission of this report concludes my collaboration with the school. I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere appreciation…
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Richard Fay named The University of Manchester Teacher of the Year 2013 !
Like everybody who knows Richard or has worked with him, I think that this is an overdue and very well deserved award.
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Book Review: “Task-Based Language Teaching in Foreign Language Contexts”
I am happy to announce that my review of Task-Based Language Teaching in Foreign Language Contexts by Ali Shehadeh and Christine A. Coombe has now been published by the LinguistList. You can find it online here.
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Researching Multilingually
On May 23rd, I had the privilege of attending the Researching Multilingually seminar that was hosted by The University of Manchester, where I presented a brief talk about the various alternatives available for representing bilingual data in research output. In a nutshell, my argument was that there are many different considerations (intentionalities) that need to…
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“Researching Multilingually” Seminar
I am very happy to announce that I will be taking part at the AHRC-funded “Researching Multilingually” seminar, which will be held in Manchester on 22nd – 23rd May 2012. The paper I will present is titled Representational Positions in Bilingual Research, and it draws on some methodological insights from my doctoral dissertation. My research…