Tag: TESOL
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“Primary English Language Teaching does more harm than good”
As education systems around the world are keen to increase the English Language Teaching provision in primary schools, the ELT Journal debate examines possible drawbacks of such policies.
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Language, Identity and Education on the Arabian Peninsula
[Archive] Call for papers for the edited volume “Language, Identity and Education on the Arabian Peninsula” (Buckingham, 2016).
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Race and TESOL
One of the many passages I have underlined in The Reflexive Teacher Educator in TESOL by Julian Edge is the following: Javier (2010) also reports the difficulties of establishing her acceptability to students as their English teacher, while belonging to what she terms a ‘visible ethnic minority’. Put simply, looking Filipino and teaching English in China…
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Cutting Edges 2014 [Call for papers]
Update This is a post advertising an academic event that took place in Canterbury in 2014. The content is no longer current and it is retained here for archival purposes only. If you are interested in receiving timely updates on academic events about language teaching and learning, you may want to consider following this blog.
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Understanding the Bottleneck Hypothesis in Language Learning
This post revisits Slabakova’s Bottleneck Hypothesis, which identifies functional morphology as the hardest part of second language acquisition. It critiques early communicative approaches, contrasts drilling with modern practices, and highlights plurilingual competence. Updated 2025 reflections connect research, pedagogy, and AI tools, showing why “easy” and “hard” in language learning depend on context.
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Call for papers: 2013 TESOL International Convention
2013 TESOL International Convention Harmonizing Language, Heritage, and Cultures The 2013 TESOL International Convention will be held in Dallas, Texas on 20-23 March 2013. According to the convention organisers, this will offer an opportunity for: …TESOL professionals from around the world to consider how we as educators, working with learners from various cultural, linguistic, ethnic,…