Achilleas Kostoulas

Applied Linguistics & Language Teacher Education

Tag: teacher education

  • Five benefits of attending conferences

    Five benefits of attending conferences

    The latest issue of English Language Teaching Journal has an interesting article, by Simon Borg, which describes what ELT professionals perceive as the benefits of participating in conferences. Unfortunately the article is behind a paywall, but if you or your institution have a subscription to  ELT J, you can follow the link below: Borg, S. (2015). The…

  • Preparing teachers to teach English as an International Language

    Preparing teachers to teach English as an International Language

    Update: Published! Preparing Teachers to Teach English as an International Language, the edited collection described below, was published by Multilingual Matters in 2017. Writing at the Multilingual Matters blog, Aya Matsuda explained that the purpose of the book is to create an intellectual space where teacher educators in different contexts with shared goals and interests…

  • On theories, practice, and opportunism in Foreign Language Education

    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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