A new bilingual ‘immersion’ app primarily aimed at children is currently available in Spanish, French and English. An interesting concept with its goal being ‘immersion not translation’. If you are interested you can get involved in the development of the product, so if you fancy an ‘immersion experience’ with Spanish or French, why not give it a go!
Read moreA few weeks ago, myself and two of my learners submitted an abstract for the series ‘Voices from the TESOL classroom’. I was really excited about this series as they were specifically asking for contributions between teachers and academics, or teachers and learners. One thing I have wanted to do for some time is to find a way for the […]
Read moreThis course is aimed at both PhD students and supervisors, as well as family and friends who might be interested in how to support us through the PhD journey. The author writes: ‘How to Survive your PhD’ runs for 10 weeks, but it’s designed to be lightweight and easy to manage and should take you no more than an hour […]
Read moreAn interesting post in which Anita Lewicka reflects on both her native and non-native teachers of English and Italian.
Read moreThis special issue of the journal ‘Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching’ (Routledge)is being guest edited by Anne Feryok and Sarah Mercer. See below for their call for papers: Time has always been a part of second language acquisition and language learning and teaching research. Acquisition and learning and teaching are essentially about change, and change is about being in […]
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Last Thursday we were very privileged to have Prof. Nazmi Al-Mari from the Islamic University Gaza (IUG) with us for an hour or so. Nazmi, an alumnus of the University of Manchester, had managed to leave Gaza for a few days in a seemingly rare opening of the borders. We are very grateful that he managed to make Manchester a part of […]
Read moreThis call for papers is from Association for Language Awareness for their 13th International Conference which will take place in Vienna from July 19-22, 2016. The submission deadline for both is 15 November 2015. below are the conference themes and plenary speakers and note that there is also the possibility of scholarships for PhD students and early career researchers. For more details […]
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World Refugee Day was on June 20th, a few days ago now, but the stories and statistics don’t disappear once the day is over. This year the focus was on the 10 million or so displaced children and their urgent need for education. Find out more here. Here is a link to the UN Refugee Agency
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This new issue is available at Wiley Online library. See below for content and links to individual articles. President’s Messages Intercultural Engagement (pages 163–164) Jacque Van Houten Article first published online: 22 JUN 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/flan.12142 Editor’s Message (pages 165–167) Anne Nerenz Article first published online: 22 JUN 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/flan.12141 Teaching Language Learners to Elaborate on Their Responses: […]
Read moreA very interesting looking book to be published on July 29th, 2015. Carefully curated to highlight research from more than twenty countries, the International Critical Pedagogy Reader introduces the ways the educational phenomenon that is critical pedagogy are being reinvented and reframed around the world. A collection of essays from both historical and contemporary thinkers coupled with original essays, introduce […]
Read moreA novel conference taking place from Friday 15th January – Sunday 17th January 2016, London, United Kingdom hashtag n. (on social media web sites and applications) a word or phrase preceded by a hash and used to identify messages relating to a specific topic; (also) the hash symbol itself, when used in this way. Hashtags originated on, and are chiefly associated […]
Read moreAs we get your permission, we’ll be posting all the presentations from Bring it Back Home 2015 here. Gary Motteram Paul Breen Magda Rostron Lada Smirnova Sutraphorn Tantiniranat (Khwan) Siti Fitriyah (Fitri) Eljee Javier
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Here is the link to Magdalena’s article that she was referring to yesterday. Congratulations Made on getting published too! http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjet.12302/epdf
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