Tag: ELT
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Call for Papers: Language Learning Technologies
This post refers to a call for papers in 2015. It is retained here as part of this site’s historical record of developments in language education publishing. I recently received a call for papers that may be of interest to anyone of you who’s doing English for Specific Purposes, or English for Academic Purposes, and has…
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Revisiting the Target Language Democratisation narrative
We have all been taught the history of ELT. But is it possible that the story we’ve been told is wrong?
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Call for Papers: NATESOL 2015
The Northern Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (NATESOL) is a Manchester-based teacher’s association that has been supporting the professional development of English Language Teachers since 1984. They hold several events throughout the year, including an annual conference. This year’s conference, will be be held on Saturday 20th June 2015 at Salford City College, and…
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IATEFL 2015: A retrospective
During IATEFL 2015, I made extensive notes about the sessions that I attended, as I had planned to write up summaries for this blog. It seems, however, that my own recollections of, and reactions to, many sessions have become weaker in the weeks since the conference. However, there’s already quite a lot of material available online, including video…
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Our IATEFL panel: A summary
This post is a summary of the 2015 IATEFL panel discussion about Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL), in which I was involved, along with Vicky Loras, Juup Stelma, Magdalena De Stefani and María Muniz.
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Call for Chapters: English-Medium Instruction in Japan
A call for chapters has been issued for an edited collection focussing on English Medium Instruction (EMI) in Japanese higher education. The book, to be edited by Howard Brown (University of Niigata), aims to generate “a picture of EMI in Japan, its development, its current situation and its future”, by looking into topics such as “how…
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Manchester Roundtable on Complexity Theory and ELT
About this post: This is a post advertising a workshop that took place in 2015. The information is no longer current, but I am keeping it here for archival reasons. You can read more about the Manchester Roundtable by visiting our website. You may also want to read about the TESOL Journal article that came…
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The history of ELT: A different perspective
I am willing to venture that, at some point in their careers, all the readers of this blog attended some kind of ‘Approaches and Methods’ module, which most likely traced the development of language teaching as a progression of methods, ranging from Grammar-Translation to Task-Based Learning. This sequence of methods, which -after a flash of inspiration moments ago- I call the progression narrative, is so familiar…
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This year’s ELT Journal debate
ELT Journal are holding their annual debate at IATEFL in Manchester on Monday 13 April 2015. This year’s motion is Language testing does more harm than good. In the latest issue of ELT J (unfortunately behind a paywall!), the rationale of the debate is described as follows: A remarkable amount of time is devoted to testing and…