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Call for Papers: The Languages of Language Learning
The 11th Annual Conference of the BAAL Language Learning and Teaching SIG will be hosted by the Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language Research Group (ETAL), Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, and is set to take place on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd July 2015. The theme of the upcoming conference is The Languages of…
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Interruption of service
I will be taking a few weeks off blogging in order to prepare for my upcoming viva and a publication with a pressing deadline. During this time, I am afraid I won’t be able to update this blog regularly, although I might comment irregularly on topical issues, as they arise. I will try to respond any comments,…
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Call for papers: Faces of English: Theory, Practice and Pedagogy
The Centre for Applied English Studies at Hong Kong University will be hosting an international conference titled “Faces of English: Theory, Practice and Pedagogy” in Hong Kong on 11-13 June 2015. According to the conference organisers, the meeting aims to highlight “the rich diversity of approaches to understanding English and the range of contexts in…
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Dr S. Bestiale, Jon Snow’s fate, and a poem
It’s one of those weeks when I find it really difficult to do any serious work, offline or on this blog. So, this week’s collection of reading materials will endeavour to provide answers to questions such as: (a) who is Dr Stronzo Bestiale?, (b) is John Snow dead? and (c) what is the boundary between Science and…
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How many components must a complex system have?
Dispelling the notion that a Complex System must have many components.
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Call for papers: 12th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL12)
The 12th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL12), a biennial meeting for the study of the Greek Language, will be hosted by the the Freie Universität Berlin (Chair for Modern Greek Studies and the Center for Modern Greece) from 16 to 19 September 2015. Invited speakers include: Elena Anagnostopoulou, University of Crete Peter Mackridge, University of Oxford Maria Sifianou, National…
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Tuition fees, academic publishing, and song lyrics
This week’s collection of noteworthy looks into university tuition fees, reports on the new Facebook research guidelines, discusses academic authorship and predatory publishers, and examines the role of song lyrics in research output. Tuition Fees in Germany and the UK Last week, Lower Saxony abolished tuition fees for university students, thus aligning with all the…
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Elephants, self-promotion, and academic self-presentation
For today, I had originally planned to post some thoughts on Teaching English to Very Young learners, drawing on a small scale inquiry I ran online over the last 10 days. However, that post has been de-prioritised, and in its place I’d like to engage in some rather shameless self-promotion, which I will then use as a springboard in…
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Where can I find calls for papers for TESOL?
So, you have written or are planning to write a paper on language education, TESOL or applied linguistics – but do you know where to publish it? The easiest way forward usually is to submit your work to one of the many journals in the field. Another option is to consider an edited volume or…