Interculturality in a New Global World: China’s One Belt, One Road as an Example University of Helsinki, Finland http://www.helsinkisummerschool.fi/courses/course/interculturality-new-global-world-chinas-one-belt-one-road-example/ Dates: 7.8.-23.8.2018 Target students Bachelor’s and Master’s levels. Students who have an interest in intercultural studies, intercultural / multicultural education and social justice, but also sociology and anthropology. No background in intercultural studies or Chinese language Read More …

Congratulations to Volha on her successful VIVA. Well done! December 1st. 2017

  The use of film to enhance learning in the ESOL classroom Cormac Conway Cormac Conway is an ESOL Curriculum Manager at Manchester Adult Education Service. He has been an ESOL teacher since 1999, working in Scotland, Italy, Ireland and Manchester. He has a Dip TESOL and MA. He is more excited about the new Read More …

Congratulations to Fida whose VIVA was a great success. Well done!  3rd November 2017

    Nottingham Trent University is looking forward to welcoming you to a PIM on Intercultural Communication 18th November 2017 £100 This PIM is jointly held with the BAAL Intercultural Communication SIG. In today’s globalised, yet increasingly polarised world, communication skills, cultural knowledge, cultural sensitivity and open-mindedness towards others would seem to be more important Read More …

M. Wagner, D. Conlon Perugini & M. Byram (eds) Teaching Intercultural Competence across the Age Range: from Theory to Practice. Multilingual Matters October 2017. https://channelviewpublications.wordpress.com/2017/10/19/the-importance-of-intercultural-understanding-in-todays-world/

A paper Khwan and Richard are co-writing has been accepted for a conference in Thailand in 2018. Digital Literacy in English Language Learning and Teaching is the 2018 conference theme. Tantiniranat, S. and Fay, R. Teaching English for intercultural communication in Thai higher education: some challenges and possibilities. A paper to be presented at the Read More …

This is an invitation to submit a paper to the special issue on: Flipped Learning in Foreign Language Environment, edited by Dr. Adrian Leis and Dr. Jeffery Mehring of the International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT) Introduction Flipped learning has received much attention and has proven to be a successful approach to teaching over Read More …

Language is all around us. We use it every day to express our thoughts, feelings and opinions, to communicate with other people, to convince them of our views, make them feel better or worse, manipulate them or even insult them. Language is a powerful tool which helps us perform our actions. There are more than Read More …

  On this achievement, we wish you hearty congratulations, great success and happiness. Well done!                 

For those interested in the area of English as Lingua Franca, there is a new book worth reading. See details bellow. The Routledge Handbook of English as Lingua Franca, by Jennifer Jenkins, Will Baker and Martin Dewey.

TRANSNATIONAL EDUCATION EXPORTS AND IMPORTS THE SEARCH FOR THE CHINESE EL DORADO Eds. Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki), Xiangyun Du (Aalborg University) & Zhao Ke (SHUFE) Deadline for abstracts: 20th November 2017 Volume to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in the Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective (Eds. Dervin/Du) It has become Read More …

One-day seminar, Turku, Finland Meeting date: Tuesday 29th August 2017 Place: University of Applied Sciences, Turku, Finland, Turku University of Applied Sciences, ICT City, street address: Joukahaisenkatu 3A  Title of seminar: Criticality, interculturality and study abroad You can follow and take part in the event online at: https://connect.funet.fi/costcriticality/   Objectives:  This WP5 meeting will take place just before the Read More …

Thank you very much to Min and Nahielly for organising today’s A.maze.ing event for our LANTERN community. I not only thoroughly enjoyed myself making piñatas, drawing batik patterns, and responding to different images, but was also encouraged through Min’s mountain activity, and given much food for thought in the other presentations. Khwan spoke of how important our LANTERN community has been for Read More …