Tag: English Language Teaching
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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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Call for papers: 14th Symposium on Second Language Writing
The 14th Symposium on Second Language Writing (SSLW 2015) will take place on 19th – 21st November 2015, at the Auckland University of Technology. The theme of the conference is: Learning to write for academic purposes: Advancing theory, research and practice. Keynote speakers include: Ken Hyland, University of Hong Kong, China Rosa Manchón, University of Murcia,…
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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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Individuals in Contexts: Psychology of Language Learning 2
About this post: This is a post advertising an academic conference about the Psychology of Language Learning, which took place in 2016. The content is no longer current, and it is retained here for academic purposes only. You can read more about the conference at the website of the International Association for the Psychology of…
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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)
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“Primary English Language Teaching does more harm than good”
As education systems around the world are keen to increase the English Language Teaching provision in primary schools, the ELT Journal debate examines possible drawbacks of such policies.
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Race and TESOL
One of the many passages I have underlined in The Reflexive Teacher Educator in TESOL by Julian Edge is the following: Javier (2010) also reports the difficulties of establishing her acceptability to students as their English teacher, while belonging to what she terms a ‘visible ethnic minority’. Put simply, looking Filipino and teaching English in China…
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Arizona Working Papers in SLA and Teaching [Call for Papers]
Update (January 2015) This is a post advertising a call for papers issued by Arizona Working Papers in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching in 2014. The issue advertised below was published in Volume 21, and you can access it by following this link. You can find more Calls for Papers on linguistics, applied linguistics, language education and…
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Call for Papers: Classroom-oriented research: Reconciling Theory and Practice
Classroom-oriented research: Reconciling theory and practice The 3rd International Conference on classroom-oriented research will be organised by the Institute of Modern Languages, State School of Higher Professional Education (Konin), the Department of English Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań) and the Institute of English Studies, University of Łódź, in collaboration with IATEFL Research SIG. The conference, titled Classroom-oriented research: Reconciling theory and practice, will look…