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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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Conversations with a purpose: Reflecting on interviewing in EFL research
If you are interested in following the more recent activities of IATEFL and the Research Special interest group, the following links might be more useful: The IATEFL website The ReSIG website IATEFL ReSIG Pre-Conference Event The IATEFL conference in Birmingham is coming up, and those of you who have an interest in classroom-based research may want…
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2015 in Review
Highlights of a year of blogging – with comments on Native/Non-Native Speakers of English, feral children, and complexity theory.
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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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Punctuation..?
I was delighted to receive, a few days ago, a copy of Punctuation..?, a short reference book published by User Design. Unlike more cumbersome style guides, Punctuation..? is quite concise: it spans 35 A5-size pages. These contain 21 sections, focusing on different punctuation marks, such as ‘square brackets’ or ‘semi colon’. Each section describes the…
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37th TESOL Greece Annual Convention
The Conference The 37th Annual Convention of TESOL Greece will take place on the 19th and 20th March 2016, in the Goethe Institut in Athens (Omirou 14-16). This year’s convention is titled Join the Education R-Evolution and it aims to provide a venue for discussing what techniques, methods and practices could be considered ‘revolutionary’ in ELT, and “how to merge…
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Drunken Aussies, Upgrading to PhD, and the REF
This post was part of a series of posts curating internet content about language, linguistics and higher education between 2013 and 2015. Much of the content of the post is no longer current, but it is retained here for archival reasons. I’ve been in my new post in Graz for a month now, and life…
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Multilingual Language Learning with Digital Media
[Archive] Call for papers for a conference focussing on digitally assisted multilingiual language learning that took place in 2015.