Tag: ELT
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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
In this post I dicsuss classroom-based research as a way for teachers to explore their professional practice.
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37th TESOL Greece Annual Convention
The Conference The 37th Annual Convention of TESOL Greece will take place on the 19th and 20th March 2016, in the Goethe Institut in Athens (Omirou 14-16). This year’s convention is titled Join the Education R-Evolution and it aims to provide a venue for discussing what techniques, methods and practices could be considered ‘revolutionary’ in ELT, and “how to merge…
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Drunken Aussies, Upgrading to PhD, and the REF
This post was part of a series of posts curating internet content about language, linguistics and higher education between 2013 and 2015. Much of the content of the post is no longer current, but it is retained here for archival reasons. I’ve been in my new post in Graz for a month now, and life…
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On Language Learning Strategies
A narrative account of the Situating Strategies in Use conference in Klagenfurt (2015).
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Call for papers: Strengthening connectivities in ELT: Pedagogies, disciplines and cultures
If you landed on this page looking for information on interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches to language education, you may be interested in reading about Challenging Boundaries in Language Education, an edited collection that I edited (2019, Springer). Strengthening connectivities in ELT: Pedagogies, disciplines and culturesSingapore 25-27 May 2016 One of my PhD supervisors used to…
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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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Tissue rejection in language education
Tissue rejection is a metaphor that helps explain why innovations in language education sometimes fail. Originally used by Holliday in the 1990s, it describes the way new methods are resisted when they do not align with the ecology of classrooms. This post revisits the metaphor to explore its relevance for AI, psychology, and teacher development…