Category: Publications (All)
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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 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.
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Disrupting Geographical Borders in Language Education
The three next chapters in Challenging Boundaries in Language Education, problematise how the changing composition of language classroom impacts the professional roles and identities of teachers. These chapters look into superdiverse urban settings, explore the identity construction of teachers, and describe a teacher education programme that prepares language educators to help refugee-background learners.
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Transgressing Curricular Borderlines in Language Education
The first chapters of the Challenging Boundaries in Language Education have been submitted. The focus of both these contributions, by Katerina Vourdanou and Dietmar Tatzl, is on combining language education with other curricular objectives.
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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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A Language School as a Complex System: Why did I write this book?
In this extract from ‘A Language School as a Complex System’, I explain what the purpose of the book is, and what contribution I hope to make. I also write about a more personal reason that motivated the writing of the book.