GENDER – POWER – HIERARCHY: CRITICAL ISSUES IN INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS Adopting a concept of intercultural training in which practical communication plays the central role means “focussing less on broad constructs like ‘culture’ and more on the everyday concrete actions through which culture is produced”.1 At the heart of such training is the interculturally appropriate use of language, in our case […]
Read moreAn interesting paper on what makes an inspiring teacher, based on research done in China and Indonesia. You can access it here.
Read moreThe seventeenth webinar in the IATEFL webinar series will take place on Saturday 29 November 2014 at 15.00 GMT. The webinar will be presented by Fiona Dunlop, who will be talking about ‘How to access CPD’. Fiona will be looking at the issue of continuing professional development and the opportunities available to busy professionals. She will give the participants tips […]
Read moreSpecial issue of the journal Frontiers of Education focused on Chinese Students and Scholars in the Global Community: Challenges of Integration together with a series of articles exploring academic interactions in the contexts of Australia, Denmark, Finland, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Singapore. We invite you to read our articles and take advantage of the free trial access until Dec 7th 2014. Feel […]
Read moreRichard writes: As many of you know, as prompted by a seminar by Adrian Holliday (based on his 1992 article) and sessions by former colleague Mike Beaumont, the major revelation from my own MA studies (back in the day) concerned appropriate methodology for TESOL, a very current issue then (before Holliday’s seminal publication on this theme was published in 1994) […]
Read moreContextualising Narrative Inquiry: Developing Methodlogical Approaches for Local Context Edited by Sheila Trahar Narrative inquiry is growing in popularity as a research methodology in the social sciences, medicine and the humanities. In narrative inquiry, the transparency of interactions between researcher and research participants, together with rich, contextual descriptions, help to shape and structure research texts rendering them engaging and readable. […]
Read moreCultural issues in address terms in translation by Jing Mei HAN With the incoming globalization, an increasing number of peoples have come to realize we have to know more about one another. To begin the communications, some native speakers of English may find it difficult to understand some basics such as the address terms in another culture. Thus knowledge about […]
Read moreCall for chapters Abstracts by 15th Dec. 2014 Demystifying Critical Thinking in Multilingual and Intercultural Education Edited by Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki, Finland) & Julie Byrd Clark (Western University, Canada) To be published by Info Age Publishing in 2016 BOOK SERIES Contemporary Language Education http://www.infoagepub.com/index.php?id=11&s=s0017 Following a very successful volume on reflexivity in multilingual and intercultural language education (Routledge, […]
Read moreJust a reminder for all of you who have an upcoming viva that we have a wealth of past experiences, links and ideas that may help you in the ‘Examination (Thesis Viva /Panel/Annual Review)’ category. If you come across any useful links/articles etc. while preparing, please do add them to the blog. That would be very helpful for all of […]
Read moreEdited by Fred Dervin and Karen Risager Routledge This volume focuses on advances in research methodology in an interdisciplinary field framed by discourses of identity and interculturality. It includes a range of qualitative studies: studies of interaction, narrative studies, conversation analysis, ethnographic studies, postcolonial studies and critical discourse studies, and emphasizes the role of discourse and power in all studies […]
Read moreFred Dervin (The University of Helsinki, Finland) and Hanna Ragnarsdóttir (The University of Iceland, Iceland) (Eds.) Sense Publishers Introduction available here: Although we live in an era of multiple identities and belongings, origins still seem to matter. For most people origins are obvious and transparent. We all come from somewhere. Yet talking about one’s origins can be highly sensitive and […]
Read moreBurkert, A., Dam, L. & Ludwig, C. (2013) (Eds.). Autonomy in language learning: The answer is autonomy: issues in language teaching and learning. Selected papers from the LASIG conference at Treffpunkt Sprachen in Graz, Austria. This book is a compilation of articles dealing with a wide range of topics addressing aspects of a pedagogy for autonomy in various institutional and […]
Read moreDear Colleague, Routledge is delighted to announce that from 2015 we will be publishing the journal Curriculum Inquiry, on behalf of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Curriculum Inquiry is dedicated to the study of educational research, theory, and practice. This leading international journal brings together the work of influential scholars and researchers from a variety of academic fields […]
Read morePlenary talk: Critical Language Testing and English Lingua Franca. How can one help the other? by Elana Shohamy Plenary talk: Towards a Transformative ELF-Aware Education: Challenges and Opportunities for Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education by Nicos Sifakis ELF and the pragmatics of language variation by Henry Widdowson Colloquium: ELF Aware Classroom Practices and Teaching Materials: Issues and New Perspectives in ELT […]
Read moreIn her debut novel, Michell finds a compelling protagonist in a South Korean interpreter who struggles to belong Clare Clark Saturday 4 October 2014 The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/04/the-defections-hannah-michell-review-lost-souls-seoul An interesting looking novel about meaning and language and identity. A light non-academic read for all those interested in intercultural issues?
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