This year’s Jenny Cheshire Lecture is less than two weeks away – on Friday 13th June at 6.30pm (in London). As a reminder, thelecture will be delivered by Prof. David Britain and is entitled ‘English in Paradise?: a new variety in the Pacific’. It will take place in the MathsLecture Theatre, School of Mathematical Sciences, Mile End Campus. There will be a reception after the event as well. […]
Read moreBelow is a call for chapters for what looks like a very interesting publication. If you are interested in ‘-isms’ and oppression, check out the details below. Deadline for abstracts: September 1st 2014 Call for Chapters
Read moreVice-chancellor Leszek Borysiewicz wants education system to allow children to strive to become as bilingual as they can be. Magda sent in this interesting post from the Guardian on bilingualism. You can read the article here
Read moreI have just read this post on ‘The Thesis Whisperer’ (you can tell how easily distracted I am from writing my panel proposal!) and thought I must share it with you all as it is so reminiscent of Magda’s last post. This might all come in useful as we gear up for and then emerge from panel!
Read moreLanguage Learning In and Out of the Classroom Wednesday 18 June 2014 Lecture Theatre C, Building 65 Avenue Campus, Southampton SO17 1BF Modern Languages at Southampton invites you to join them in celebrating Professor Rosamond Mitchell’s academic career in this one-day symposium which will take place on 18 June 2014. The symposium will pay tribute to Ros’s dedication and many achievements in the […]
Read moreWe have a tentative date for our mini in-house conference: Wednesday 25th June. Just to remind you that the aim of the day is for those of us who have given conference presentations somewhere this year to share them with the rest of the LTE family. I know that both Richard and Juup have contributions, as well as Khwan, Fitri, […]
Read moreReflexivity in Language and Intercultural Education: Rethinking Multilingualism and Interculturality edited by Julie S. Byrd Clark & Fred Dervin (2014) (with contributions from several LEF members) The Table of Contents: Introduction Julie S. Byrd Clark and Fred Dervin 1. The Process of Becoming Reflexive and Intercultural: Navigating Study Abroad and Reentry Experience Jane Jackson 2. “Or, just it’s my fault right?”: Language Socialization through Reflexive Language Writing Feedback Jérémie […]
Read moreRecherche et Pratiques pédagogiques en langues de spécialité – Cahiers de l’APLIUT,vol. XXXIV N° 2 What does the term “success” mean in the field of LSP (Languages for Specific Purposes)? What do we mean by “failure”? If the concepts of success and failure seem to be interdependent, are they mutually exclusive? Is failure a necessary step on the route to success? And […]
Read moreVol. 5 of Research Papers in Language Teaching and Learning is now published. You can find it here: http://rpltl.eap.gr/ > Current Issue, or, directly, here: http://rpltl.eap.gr/current-issue/table-of-contents. This is a Special Issue on “The evolution of CALL and current research in new media”, guest-edited by Vasilia Kourtis?Kazoullis and Kosmas Vlachos. It hosts reports on the implementation of many different facets of ICTs and new media, such […]
Read moreI have just got back from a few days at this year’s IATEFL conference in Harrogate. Perhaps I’ll blog about the conference itself sometime, but what I’d like to try and write down now is the essence of what for me was a very interesting series of conversations. They started in the very elegant surroundings of Betty’s tearooms (Harrogate tea, […]
Read moreFollowing on (three years later!) from the LTE researcher conference “From here to there and back again” which took place in 2011, we are exploring the possibility of running something similar this year. The idea is that all researchers (students and supervisors) involved in our community who have given a seminar or conference paper they would like to share, could […]
Read moreThe above question was posted on the Oxford University Press English language teaching global blog This reply was circulated via the BALEAP mailing list. Any comments? “[Stephen Krashen] did a tour of Saudi Arabia a few weeks ago, and gave three training sessions at our university. He repeated these things (listed in order of what I remember and not giving […]
Read moreI read an article in the Metro today about a guy who has learnt a whole load of languages by travelling around the world, landing in a country and starting to chat to people – in other words, total immersion. He has now written a book based on his blog called ‘Fluent in 3 months’. I’m not sure how he […]
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