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My thesis listed in EThOS
Just a short note to say that my PhD Thesis is now listed in the British Library Electronic Thesis Online Service (EThOS). Registered users can download a pdf copy from EThOS. Alternatively, you can download a copy from eScholar, the University of Manchester institutional repository. Clicking on the link below will take you to the…
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Call for Papers: Language Learning Technologies
This post refers to a call for papers in 2015. It is retained here as part of this site’s historical record of developments in language education publishing. I recently received a call for papers that may be of interest to anyone of you who’s doing English for Specific Purposes, or English for Academic Purposes, and has…
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Call for Papers: Special issue on ‘Current Approaches to Bilingualism’
A special issue of the International Journal of Language and Applied Linguistics (IJLAL) is to appear in October 2015, and submissions are invited for articles, which will focus on current approaches to bilingualism. The special issue, which is to be guest-edited by Elena Gómez Parra and Cristina A. Huertas (both University of Córdoba, Spain) aims to “promote the discussion and dissemination of…
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Call for Papers: Third ASSE International Conference on British and American Studies
One of the first conferences in which I presented as a novice PhD student, and one which I remember very fondly, was organised by a group of academics in Vlora, Albania. If memory serves, these academics later became founding members of the Albanian Society for the Study of English (ASSE), and have been very active ever since…
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Call for Papers: NATESOL 2015
The Northern Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (NATESOL) is a Manchester-based teacher’s association that has been supporting the professional development of English Language Teachers since 1984. They hold several events throughout the year, including an annual conference. This year’s conference, will be be held on Saturday 20th June 2015 at Salford City College, and…
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Sexist Peer Review; Non-replicable Science; and Flexible Job Searches
About this article: This is a summary of blog posts, articles and other content about Higher Education, language teaching and learning and academic writing, which were published in the last week of April 2015. The topics covered in this post include: Can you get away with sexist remarks in peer review? Is it really a…
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IATEFL 2015: A retrospective
During IATEFL 2015, I made extensive notes about the sessions that I attended, as I had planned to write up summaries for this blog. It seems, however, that my own recollections of, and reactions to, many sessions have become weaker in the weeks since the conference. However, there’s already quite a lot of material available online, including video…
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A thank you note!
What I want to do in this post is thank everyone who attended our TEYL panel in IATEFL, and the Complexity Roundtable that followed the conference. It was truly great to meet many of you in person, and we – my colleagues and I – learnt a lot from the insights and feedback that you all…
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Meet our IATEFL panel!
As I announced a couple of months ago, I am proud to chair a panel discussion focussing on Young Learners in this year’s IATEFL convention. The panel is titled: Teaching English to Young Learners: Some International perspectives and you can read more about it here. In this post, I want to introduce the brilliant teachers and scholars who…