Tag: ELT
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Innovations in the Teaching of English and World Languages from a Decolonial Perspective [Call for Chapters]
Call for Chapters for an edited volume that will explore decolonial perspectives on language teacher preparation.
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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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Rebuilding ELT as a Resilient Profession
On 8th – 9th October 2021, I had the privilege of being invited to deliver a plenary talk at the 10th ELT Malta Conference. This was one of the first conferences to be held internationally following the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, and at the time (a time when vaccines had been rolled out…
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Classroom Observations: A how-to guide
Classroom obvervations can be challenging. This guide describes a series of steps that can help you to plan, conduct and reflect on a visit to a language classroom.
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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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CLIL and Immersion: Some differences
This post discusses differences between CLIL and bilingual immersion programmes.
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Postdoc position in ELT at the University of Graz
A new job opportunity in our ELT Research and Methodology team! We are looking for a postdoctoral research associate – read on for more details.
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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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Doing Classroom-Based Research
Last Saturday, Anita Lämmerer and I had the privilege to facilitate a workshop in the ELT Connect 2015 conference that was jointly organised by the Sprachausbildung and the Fachdidaktik sections of the Institut für Anglistik, University of Graz. In our workshop, which was entitled Exploring Practice through Classroom-Based Research, we made the case for practitioner-led research,…