Tag: English Language Teaching
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Towards Critical ELF pedagogy
English learners can speak clearly and correctly, yet still be exploited, marginalised, or unheard. A critical ELF perspective starts asks what language education should do when communication works, but justice does not.
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Rethinking language textbooks: Language, Ideology, and Liquid Racism
Textbooks aren’t neutral. They shape how learners see language, culture, and identity while reinforcing hidden ideologies in education. This post explores how educators can critically engage with language textbooks to foster inclusion, justice, and critical awareness in the classroom.
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Call for papers: Inclusion & Diversity in CALL
If you’re teaching and researching Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), you may be interested in the following Call for Papers for a special issue to be published in CALICO Journal, the official journal of the Computer Assisted Learning International Consortium. The special issue is edited by Carolyn Blume (TU Dortmund), Jules Bündgens-Kosten (Goethe University Frankfurt)…
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Developing research literacy skills for language teachers: The ReaLiTea project
The ReaLiTea project is an international collaboration that aims to develop research literacy among teachers. This post provides an overview of the project and explains why research literacy is necessary and urgent.
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Classroom Observation for language teachers: A how-to guide
Learn how to plan, conduct, and reflect on classroom observations with this step-by-step guide for teachers, student teachers, and supervisors.
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From individual to relational resilience in ELT
Research on language teacher resilience has tended to focus too much on the ‘individual self’ at the expense of relational understandings. Is it time to rethink this?
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What’s love got to do with it?
Reacting to a bad paper, and some thoughts on the state of academic publishing in language education.
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CLIL and Immersion: Some differences
This post discusses differences between CLIL and bilingual immersion programmes.
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How can complexity inform ELT? (Video by Diane Larsen-Freeman)
Yesterday, I blogged about this symposium that aims to explore the ‘connectivities’ of English Language Teaching (ELT), i.e, how ELT bridges languages, cultures and disciplinary boundaries. The more I think of the symposium topic, the more interesting it seems; but at the same time, I am becoming increasingly conscious that ELT theory has perhaps failed…