Tag: IATEFL
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Things I didn’t do in IATEFL
The last time I attended the IATEFL annual conference was in 2015, when Magdalena de Stefani, Maria Muniz, Juup Stelma and I took part in a symposium on Teaching English to Young Learners. Since then, I have always made a point of attending again, and I have consistently failed to do so. Life happens. Academic…
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Conversations with a purpose: Reflecting on interviewing in EFL research
If you are interested in following the more recent activities of IATEFL and the Research Special interest group, the following links might be more useful: The IATEFL website The ReSIG website IATEFL ReSIG Pre-Conference Event The IATEFL conference in Birmingham is coming up, and those of you who have an interest in classroom-based research may want…
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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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Meet our IATEFL panel!
As I announced a couple of months ago, I am proud to chair a panel discussion focussing on Young Learners in this year’s IATEFL convention. The panel is titled: Teaching English to Young Learners: Some International perspectives and you can read more about it here. In this post, I want to introduce the brilliant teachers and scholars who…
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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…
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Our IATEFL 2015 presentation: “Teaching English to Young Learners: Some International Perspectives”
I am very happy to announce that I will be chairing a panel discussion that will focus on Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL) in the upcoming IATEFL conference. The discussion will take place on Saturday, 11th April 2015 (time and location, TBA). Our panel aims to bring together perspectives of TEYL from a variety of contexts around the world.…
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Developing as a researcher [IATEFL pre-conference event]
The IATEFL Research Special Interest Group will be holding a pre-conference event on 10 April 2015, prior to the Annual IATEFL conference. The event will combine poster presentations, group discussions, panel discussions as well as ‘surgery sessions’ focussing on areas that participants might find challenging. David Nunan and Sue Garton will be participating, moderating the event…
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Academic publishing: the REF, Open Access, plagiarism and pseudoscience
This is a post summarising articles, blog posts and news items about Higher Education, academic publishing and language learning, which were published between 31 March and 6 April 2014. This week’s selection of news and comments brings together an initiative by England’s top research funding body to promote open access, some concerns about the way the…