Category: Other
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Saving the Fulbright programme and other stories
This is a summary of selected posts, online articles and other content about Higher Education, language teaching and learning and academic writing, which appeared in the week starting on the 16th June 2014. It’s been a while since I wrote one of these posts, as I am still overwhelmed by a number of pressing commitments,…
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![Universal Biases on Phonological Acquisition and Processing [Call for papers]](https://achilleaskostoulas.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/pexels-photo-207691.jpeg)
Universal Biases on Phonological Acquisition and Processing [Call for papers]
Update (June 2015) This is a post advertising an academic event that took place in 2015. The content is no longer current, and is retained here for archival purposes only. If you’d like to receive updates on upcoming ELT and linguistics events, you may want to consider subscribing to this blog.
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Isms in Language Education: Oppression, Intersectionality & Emancipation
Update (October 2017) The volume advertised in this post has now been published in the Language and Social Life series of de Gruyter Mouton. The title of the volume has been updated to Isms in Language Education: Oppression, Intersectionality and Emancipation. The volume consists of 12 chapters which greatly enrich the critical discourse in language education.
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Interruption of service
[Archive] A brief announement regarding this blog.
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![4th International Conference on Teaching Translation and Interpreting [Call for papers]](https://achilleaskostoulas.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/translate-110777_640.jpg)
4th International Conference on Teaching Translation and Interpreting [Call for papers]
[Archive] This is a post advertising an academic event that took place in 2014. The content is no longer current.
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Cornish!
This post, focussing on the Cornish language, departs from the usual topics covered in this blog, and it has been prompted by the recent political decision to afford the language official protection under the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. So, in celebration of this decision, here are some facts about the history and features…
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Predatory publishing, languages, quitting and persevering
This is an archived collection of news items about linguistics, lanaguage teaching and higher education that appeared in April 2014.
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Sociocultural Competence & Language Learning in Multilingual Settings
This is a post advertising a conference that took place in Brussels in September 2014.
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![Indigenous children’s language [Special Issue]](https://achilleaskostoulas.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/9799052565_254909c14a_k.jpg)
Indigenous children’s language [Special Issue]
This post describes a special issue in First Language, which looks into the ways that minority languages are acquired and preserved, and how they evolve through children’s language.