Publications (All)
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Language education for refugees and migrants: An intentional dynamics perspective
Language education for refugees and migrants is a topic that has received much less attention than it deserves. Two recently completed MA dissertations provide some insights in this complex topic.
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Language Diversity in Greece (Book Review)
I have always had an interest in scholarship that challenges monolingual narratives. This was why I was very excited when I was asked to review Linguistic Diversity in Greece, a volume edited by four prominent Greek linguists (Skourtou et al., 2020). The edited collection looks into various marginalised linguistic communities in Greece, and showcases the…
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The Intentional Dynamics of TESOL
I have just learnt from our publishers, de Gruyter Mouton, that the book I have writing with Juup Stelma, The Intentional Dynamics of TESOL, is on the final printing stages, and that it will be available for purchase from 10th May onwards. This seems like a good time to say a few words about the…
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Complexity Theory & Language Development: A review of Ortega & Han (2017)
The Linguist List has published my review of ‘Complexity Theory and Language Development. You can read a revised version of the review in this post.
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Language Education at an Age of Uncertainty
Challenging Boundaries in Language Education is a book written for a time of uncertainty. In this post, I outline the main characteristics of what I define as the ‘post-certainty condition’ in language education, and discuss its implications.
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Language teaching and learning beyond mainstream populations
These three chapters in ‘Challenging Boundaries in Language Education’ discuss how we might understand and empower populations at the ‘fringe’ of language education theory and practice. Whether it is by capitalising on the linguistic resources of multilingual students, reflecting on the experiences of study abroad students or understanding the challenges of third age language educators,…
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Extending English Language Teaching Theory
Challenging Boundaries in Language Education, the book I am editing, invites readers to rethink how languages are taught. These four chapters that have just been included in the collection map out the theory of langauge education, and show some ways in which it can be extended.
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Describing a school as a complex system
In this extract from my book, A Language School as a Complex System, I discuss why it makes sense to describe a school through the lens of a complex systems theory, and I outline some advantages that such a perspective brings.
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Complexity theory in language education – What is it?
This extract from my book ‘A Language School as a Complex System’ discusses what complex systems are and why it they are useful when thinking about language education.