Tag: foreign language education
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On theories, practice, and opportunism in Foreign Language Education
“If it doesn’t work in practice, then it’s not good theory” Julian Edge Or at least that’s what one of my doctoral supervisors used to say. The tension between theory and practice is, I think, one of the most common complaints I come across in teacher discourse (pay being by far the commonest). I have…
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6th Junior Researcher Meeting in Applied Linguistics [Call for Papers]
The 6th Junior Researcher Meeting in Applied Linguistics European Conference on Language Learning & Teaching 12-14 May 2014, Jyväskylä (Finland) The 6th Junior Researcher Meeting in Applied Linguistics is a conference primarily aimed at early career applied linguists (students working on their MA theses, doctoral researchers, or researchers who have graduated in the last three years). It will…
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Productive Foreign Language Skills for an Intercultural World [Call for Chapters].
Update Update: The book announced in the call for chapters below has been published as part of the Peter Lang ‘Foreign Language Teaching in Europe’ series. The full reference is: Paradowski, M. (ed.) (2015). Productive Foreign Language Skills for an Intercultural World: A Guide (not only) for Teachers. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. Call for Chapters This…
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Book Review: “Task-Based Language Teaching in Foreign Language Contexts”
I am happy to announce that my review of Task-Based Language Teaching in Foreign Language Contexts by Ali Shehadeh and Christine A. Coombe has now been published by the LinguistList. You can find it online here.
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Cross-curricular Approaches to Language Education
Call for Papers The 15th International Conference on Applied Linguistics, organised by the Greek Applied Linguistics Association (GALA), will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 22-25 November 2012. The overarching theme for this conference is Cross-curricular Approaches to Language Education, and the organisers are inviting papers on the following topics: Content-based Education Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Immersion Education…
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Call for papers: Resistance to the known in FLE
Update: Published! It gives me great pleasure to announce that Resistance to the Known, the edited volume that was advertised in the call for papers below, has now been published by Macmillan Palgrave. You can read more about the book, which contains a chapter by me, here. The content that follows is no longer current, but…
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German and French as Foreign Languages in Greece
The Greek school system places a premium on teaching modern foreign languages. Not all modern foreign languages, though. Just the ‘right’ ones.