Tag: ELT
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“Exclusively hiring native speakers is not discrimination” Seriously?
A reaction to prevailing practices in language education that continue to discriminate against qualified teachers who are not native speakers
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Teaching English to Young Learners: Some insights from the literature
In view of the increasing interest in Teaching English to Young Learners worldwide, it’s time to look at what the literature on Second Language Acquisition can tell us.
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Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes: Special Issue on Business English
Readers who have a professional or academic interest in Business English may be interested in the latest issue of Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes (Volume 2, Issue 3, Special Issue on Business English). The issue contains a number of interesting articles, with both a practical and an empirical focus. Writing from a…
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Preparing teachers to teach English as an International Language
Update: Published! Preparing Teachers to Teach English as an International Language, the edited collection described below, was published by Multilingual Matters in 2017. Writing at the Multilingual Matters blog, Aya Matsuda explained that the purpose of the book is to create an intellectual space where teacher educators in different contexts with shared goals and interests…
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ELF and World Englishes: Dispelling some of the confusion
Update: This is a post advertising a talk that took place in 2014. The content is no longer current, and it is retained here for archival purposes. If you have found yourself here looking for information on World Englishes or ELF, you may find the following links more helpful: “Are you ELF?” (Reading Notes) English…
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Call for Papers: The Languages of Language Learning
The 11th Annual Conference of the BAAL Language Learning and Teaching SIG will be hosted by the Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language Research Group (ETAL), Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, and is set to take place on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd July 2015. The theme of the upcoming conference is The Languages of…
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Call for papers: Faces of English: Theory, Practice and Pedagogy
The Centre for Applied English Studies at Hong Kong University will be hosting an international conference titled “Faces of English: Theory, Practice and Pedagogy” in Hong Kong on 11-13 June 2015. According to the conference organisers, the meeting aims to highlight “the rich diversity of approaches to understanding English and the range of contexts in…
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Teaching ESP & New Language Learning Technologies [Call for papers]
This post refers to a call for papers in 2015. Although the deadline for submissions is in the past, the post is retained here as part of the blog’s historical record on language education publishing. Update: Selected papers from this conference have been published in a special issue of the Journal of English for Specific…
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Chapter published: Understanding and Challenging ‘the Known’
In this post I summarise the chapter Understanting and Challenging the Known from a Complexity Perspective (Kostoulas, 2014)