Tag: Applied Linguistics for Language Education
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Schoolscapes Aren’t Neutral: Language Teaching for Inclusion
This post explores ways in which language teachers can engage learners through schoolscapes, i.e., posters, signs, and visual texts that shape language ideologies. With real-world examples, it shows how classrooms can reflect and promote multilingual inclusion.
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Complex Dynamic Systems Theory in Language Education
This post provides an overview of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory, as used in language teaching and learning. It provides a historical overview, a description of the theory and an outline of three major strands of complexity-inspired scholarship.
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What has linguistics ever done for us, really?
Linguistics has evolved over time, shaping societal concerns. This post traces some of these changes, and attempts to answer what the value of linguistic inquiry has been across the ages.
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What’s love got to do with it?
Reacting to a bad paper, and some thoughts on the state of academic publishing in language education.
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What is applied linguistics?
Despite claims that language teachers do not need to know much theory, applied linguistics remains an important part of language teacher education. Here’s why.
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13th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA 2016)
ALA 2016 The 13th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA 2016) is to be held at the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna) on 19-22 July 2016. The topic of this year’s conference is Languages for Life: Educational, Professional and Social Contexts. Plenaries Confirmed plenary speakers include: Veronika Koller (Lancaster University) Almut Köster (Vienna University of Economics and Business) Aneta Pavlenko (Temple…
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Is there a talent for language learning?
This post discusses Language Learning Aptitude, a psycholinguistics construct which refers to a ‘talent’ for learning foreign languages effortlessly.
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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: 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:…