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Situating Strategy Use 3 (Call for papers)
Situating Strategy Use (SSU) is a biennial conference that focuses on language learning and language use strategies. The third SSU conference will take place in Osaka (Japan) in October 2019. You can read more about the conference, and how to submit a proposal, in this post.
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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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Multilingual Learning in Low-Resource Contexts: Opportunities and Obstacles (Call for papers)
Bilingual education and (CLIL) are often associated with relatively well-resourced teaching contexts. However, an upcoming book edited by Elizabeth Erling and John Clegg aims to challenge this perception, and the editors of the book are keen to receive your proposals exploring aspects of multilingual education in low-resource settings.
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10 Years of Blogging
According to a notification I just received, today is my 10-year anniversary on WordPress. Originally, this was little more than a webpage introducing me as an aspiring PhD candidate. At the time, there was some consensus that having an online presence was a good thing, and I thought it might impress the admissions boards at…
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Critical Skills for Life and Work
An overview of the Critical Skills for Life and Work project, an EU-funded initiative helping highly skilled refugees develop professional intercultural communication skills. The flexible toolkit uses a plurilingual approach to support workplace integration across five career stages.
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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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What is applied linguistics?
Despite claims that language teachers do not need to know much theory, applied linguistics remains an important part of language teacher education. Here’s why.
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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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Things I didn’t do in IATEFL
The last time I attended the IATEFL annual conference was in 2015, when Magdalena de Stefani, Maria Muniz, Juup Stelma and I took part in a symposium on Teaching English to Young Learners. Since then, I have always made a point of attending again, and I have consistently failed to do so. Life happens. Academic…