Category: Other
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Bilingualism, blogging, and authenticity
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 January 2015. Last week, I remarked that there were lots of interesting developments going on in higher education at the moment. It seems that I should learn to keep my mouth shut,…
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How I became a book salesman
Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that, in recent posts, whenever I mention a book, I link to Amazon.com rather than Google Books. Here’s what this is all about: Maintaining this blog involves two kinds of investments. The first is an investment in time, for researching, writing and publicising the posts. Your readership, support and kind comments are…
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Call for papers: Second Language Acquisition: Implications for language sciences (EUROSLA 25)
The 25th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA 25) will take place on 27th – 29th August 2015 at Aix-Marisaille University (France). The conference is organised by the Laboratoire Parole et Langage, in association with the Département de français langue étrangère of the Aix-Marseille University). The general theme of the Conference is “Second Language Acquisition:…
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Making college free, a new OA journal, and student visas
About this post: This is a summary of blog posts, articles and other content about Higher Education, language teaching and learning and academic writing that appeared online in the first week of January 2015. I am not sure whether it was a mere coincidence or if it is somehow connected to the New Year, but…
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Job advertised at the ELF project in Vienna
As I was going over my email after the holiday break, I came across the following job advertisement which may be of interest to some readers of this blog. Apparently, Barbara Seidlhofer’s research group are looking for a research assistant, who will help out with their English as a Lingua Franca research. This job is addressed…
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Call for papers: 14th Symposium on Second Language Writing
The 14th Symposium on Second Language Writing (SSLW 2015) will take place on 19th – 21st November 2015, at the Auckland University of Technology. The theme of the conference is: Learning to write for academic purposes: Advancing theory, research and practice. Keynote speakers include: Ken Hyland, University of Hong Kong, China Rosa Manchón, University of Murcia,…
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2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 51,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 19 sold-out performances for that many…
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Year in Review
An earlier version of this post listed the milestones that my blog had crossed, and popular posts that I had written over the last twelve months. As I was writing that post, I became conscious that there must have been more meaningful events in my life in the year that passed, which might be worth writing about. Even so, I felt…
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Happy Holidays!
Just a note to wish you all a very happy holiday season! The blog will not be updated regularly, during the next couple of week or so, but look out for a retrospective post on Tuesday 30th December. Merry Christmas, to those of you who celebrate it, and a Happy New Year to all!