English Language Teaching Research and Teacher Education
In view of the increased popularity of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approaches, it is perhaps surprising that there appears to be little consensus about what the term actually means, and how it differs from similar approaches like bilingual education, immersion, English Medium Instruction etc. The fact that much of the discourse about the …
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Last Saturday, Anita Lämmerer and I had the privilege to facilitate a workshop in the ELT Connect 2015 conference that was jointly organised by the Sprachausbildung and the Fachdidaktik sections of the Institut für Anglistik, University of Graz. In our workshop, which was entitled Exploring Practice through Classroom-Based Research, we made the case for practitioner-led research, …
About this post: This is a post advertising a professional conference that took place in 2016. The content is no longer current, and it is retained here for archival purposes only. More up-to-date information about academic events and publication opportunities can be found here. The Conference The 37th Annual Convention of TESOL Greece will take …
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A few days ago I attended a conference in Klagenfurt, which focussed on language learning strategies. Strategies are not really my field of expertise, so the conference was a good opportunity for me to learn more about the topic, and what I will try to do in this post is to summarise and synthesise what I …
