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Conversations with a purpose: Reflecting on interviewing in EFL research
If you are interested in following the more recent activities of IATEFL and the Research Special interest group, the following links might be more useful: The IATEFL website The ReSIG website IATEFL ReSIG Pre-Conference Event The IATEFL conference in Birmingham is coming up, and those of you who have an interest in classroom-based research may want…
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“What is easy and what is hard to acquire in a second language?”
What is easy and what is hard to learn in a foreign language? I just read a chapter in an edited volume on this very question, and this post aims to provide both a synopsis of the chapter and a critical reaction to it. To answer the question, Slabakova (2013) draws on Universal Grammar theory (UG), to…
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“Is English a foreign language?”
Earlier this morning, I was posed a deceptively simple question via Twitter: “Is English a foreign language in Greece?” Of course it is, one might be tempted to answer. What else might it be? But it seems to me that one may profit from going beyond such an unreflective response. @achilleask Μου επιτρέπεις να σε…
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Reading notes: EFL teachers’ language use for classroom discipline
Kang, D.-M (to appear). EFL teachers’ language use for classroom discipline: A look at complex interplay of variables. System. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2013.01.002 This study reports on the implementation of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in the Korean context, focussing on the question of classroom discipline. Kang notices that communicative activities have the potential to subvert classroom discipline because…