TESOL Intercultural Communication Interest Section (ICIS) has just released the final instalment of their Podcast Series: Colleen Ward: “Managing Multiple Cultural Identities” Stephen Fox: “What the Arts Can (and Can’t) Communicate Across Cultures” Milton Bennett: “The Intercultural Doors of Perception” The first 10 podcasts are: 1. John Berry’s “How Shall We All Live Together?“; 2. Betina Szkudlarek, Selena Choo, […]
Read moreA message from Taslima Ivy: I am very happy to announce that me (Taslima Ivy) and Felix Kwihangana will be joining MIE as senior tutors very soon. That makes five Lanterners working as senior tutors in MIE (Ivy, Felix, Nahielly, Susan and Min). I cannot wait to see where this new chapter of my life will take me! CONGRATULATIONS […]
Read morehttps://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811556708 Link © 2020 Native-Speakerism: Its Resilience and Undoing Houghton, Stephanie Ann, Bouchard, Jérémie (Eds.) Free Preview Unpacks problems presented by the native-speaker model in foreign language education programs Provides a range of conceptual tools to situate ideological discourses and processes within educational contexts Documents some of the shifts underway from native-speakerism to post-native-speakerism About this book This book explores native-speakerism […]
Read moreHi all, Hope this message finds you all happy and healthy :-))Please kindly find below information about an interesting narrative project of journal of International Students group. If you are an international students and have a memorable intercultural experience, probably this one is for you :-))BW,Fitri ———————————————Developing Intercultural Competence: International Students’ JourneysIn Routledge Studies in Global Student Mobility book seriesKrishna […]
Read moreGlobal Englishes and language teaching: A review of pedagogical research Heath Rose, Jim McKinley and Nicola Galloway DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444820000518 (November) 2020, Cambridge: CUP. Abstract The rise of English as a global language has led scholars to call for a paradigm shift in the field of English language teaching (ELT) to match the new sociolinguistic landscape of the twenty-first century. In recent years a […]
Read moreWell, it’s been a long time (five years) since I posted a Newsletter. I never intended to leave it so long … but one thing led to another … In recent years, this LANTERN community has been spurred on by others (Eljee, Susan, Nahielly, and Min especially, to whom a big Thank You is long overdue), and as they have […]
Read moreHello, everyone! Hope you’re all doing well. It’s the first post after a long break of LANTERN. I’d like to introduce the very practical and inspiring textbook by Caprice and Irina on intercultural competence for college and university students. It provides us with a very updated view and pedagogical implication based on their abundant cross-cultural working experience in the globalized and […]
Read moreIn this post I would like to introduce our newest member Stella. She has a bachelor degree is English education in China, and a Master degree is translation studies from Macquarie University, Australia. She has 11 years of English teaching as lecturer in a university in China and she is now a PhD student at Manchester. In a short conversation we […]
Read moreCongratulations to Basemah and Lada for their successful vivas! We are proud of you ladies!
Read moreMarie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (IF): Multilingualism, Social Identities, Intercultural Relations and Communication For more information Click here
Read moreInternational Conference Another Brick in the Wall: Rethinking Education Amsterdam, November 11-15, 2019 Another Brick in the Wall: Transforming Education focuses on sharing insights pertaining to the fields of Intercultural Education, Multicultural Education, Human Rights Education, Citizenship Education, and Education for Democracy and Global Education, when it comes to addressing present day diversity issues. The international conference will allow teachers, […]
Read moreCongratulations to Min, Bona, Magda, Kris and Loretta on their successful VIVAS! We are proud of you.
Read moreBy Willem de Goei, Lancaster University Ghana, Accra, Ghana Applying the framework of space and scale (Blommaert, Collins, & Slembrouk, 2005) to my use of English as a lingua franca (ELF), I show in this self-reflective account that the effective use of our linguistic repertoire is highly dependent on context and space and that each particular space brings with it […]
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