Tag: language education
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Conducting a classroom observation
Conducting classroom observations is one of the most effective ways to develop as a teacher. But classrooms are so information-rich that the experience can be overwhelming. How do you decide what to look out for?
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Extending English Language Teaching Theory
Challenging Boundaries in Language Education, the book I am editing, invites readers to rethink how languages are taught. These four chapters that have just been included in the collection map out the theory of langauge education, and show some ways in which it can be extended.
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Challenging Boundaries in Language Education
A few days ago, I signed the contract for a forthcoming volume which I am editing. The new book, entitled Challenging Boundaries in Language Education, will be published by Springer within the Second Language Learning and Teaching series, and we are aiming for a publication date towards the end of 2019. Read about all about…
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Time in Language Learning and Teaching
This is a summary of the articles that make up the Special Issue on Time in Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching.
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Call for papers: Strengthening connectivities in ELT: Pedagogies, disciplines and cultures
If you landed on this page looking for information on interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches to language education, you may be interested in reading about Challenging Boundaries in Language Education, an edited collection that I edited (2019, Springer). Strengthening connectivities in ELT: Pedagogies, disciplines and culturesSingapore 25-27 May 2016 One of my PhD supervisors used to…
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Critical Perspectives on Language Education
A review of Critical Perspectives on Language Education: Australia and Asia Pacific.
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Isms in Language Education: Oppression, Intersectionality & Emancipation
Update (October 2017) The volume advertised in this post has now been published in the Language and Social Life series of de Gruyter Mouton. The title of the volume has been updated to Isms in Language Education: Oppression, Intersectionality and Emancipation. The volume consists of 12 chapters which greatly enrich the critical discourse in language education.
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Teaching English to Young Learners, revisited
A discussion of the effectiveness of the Greek TEYL project, based on recent publications.
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The Place of English in Societies of the Arabian Gulf [Call for chapters]
Update: The book described below was published in 2016 as Language, Identity and Education on the Arabian Peninsula: Bilingual Policies in a Multilingual Context (Louisa Buckingham, ed.). The listing of the book can be accessed here. Contributions are invited for an edited collection entitled The Place of English in Societies of the Arabian Gulf, which is…