English Language Teaching Research and Teacher Education
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.
In view of the increased popularity of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approaches, it is perhaps surprising that there appears to be little consensus about what the term actually means, and how it differs from similar approaches like bilingual education, immersion, English Medium Instruction etc. The fact that much of the discourse about the …
A new job opportunity in our ELT Research and Methodology team! We are looking for a postdoctoral research associate - read on for more details.
Update 2017 This is a post advertising an academic event that took place in 2017. The content of the post is no longer active, and it is retained here for archival purposes only. If you are interested in following the more recent activities of IATEFL and the Research Special interest group, the following links might …
Continue reading "Conversations with a purpose: Reflecting on interviewing in EFL 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, …
