Category: Conference experiences

In February 2013 I attended the Council for Australian Universities Tourism and Hospitality Education Conference (CAUTHE). I had heard of this event for a number of years and was recommended to go by peers in the UK. I presented a discussion paper at this conference as I have been working on my primary research for PhD. My presentation below is […]

The 2013 Qatar TESOL Conference took place on the 22nd and 23rd of Feb, 2013 in the ABP building (LAS) in Education City, Doha, Qatar. Its theme was:  21st Century Education – What’s Changing? What’s Not?   It was a great event, attended by nearly 300 people, well organized and with really inspiring plenary speakers (Dr Deborah Healey: “Gamification – […]

Full Conference Programme See below for Papers with: (1) LTE Doctoral Community research associate, Leah Davcheva; (2) the AHRC Researching Multilingually team including LTE Doctoral Community alumnus and research associate Mariam Attia; and (3) LTE Doctoral alumnus and research associate, Xiaowei Zhou. Davcheva, L. and R. Fay (2012). Zones of interculturality in Identity Performance: Tales of Ladino from Sephardic Jews […]

On May 23rd, I had the privilege of attending the Researching Multilingually seminar that was organised by The University of Manchester, where I presented a brief talk about the various alternatives available for representing bilingual data in research output. In a nutshell, my argument was that there are many different considerations (intentionalities) that need to be taken into account when […]

I participated in the recent Qatar TESOL Conference (13-14 April, 2012), on Student Motivation, Involvement and Autonomy, at the College of the North Atlantic in Doha, Qatar. My paper was entitled  Are we teaching / are they learning? Academic writing blues. Here is the ppt summarising the paper: QTESOL April 2012   Magda        

The 4th ENIEDA conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education took place in Vrshac, Serbia, 29 Sept-  , 2011. The focus was placed on negotiating and constructing European identities across language and cultures. It was a small scale conference, a combination of plenary speakers (Cornelia Ilie,  Maguelonne Dejant-Pons and Srikant Saranji), workshops and paper presentations. I personally, expected more interactivity both during workshops and […]

I have put together a few pictures from the recent TESOL conference in Doha. Please, take a look. Doha TESOL pictures Magda

Last weekend I participated in the international TESOL conference in Doha (1-3 Oct, 2011) on Putting Research into Practice. My presentation was on how Cooperative Development contributes to and enhances reflective teaching practice (“CD or the Art of Teacher Maintenance”), inspired by and based on Julian’s work. It went very well and, for the first time, I managed to present […]

I have just added (to the ‘Archived LTE papers’ thread) the ppt for the paper given by Leah and myself at this event in Vrsac in Serbia. The European Network for Intercultural Education and Activities (ENIEDA) is a new-ish grouping with very strong roots in the Balkans led by the dynamic Professor Cornelia Ilie (formerly of Romania and long-time based […]

On the 22nd of September I gave a presentation at the Georgetown University Culture and Politics faculty seminar. It was called Language, culture, education in a Qatari English classroom – exploring areas of dialogue and tension in the diverse environment of the Academic Bridge Program, Education City, Doha, Qatar. I posted the ppt here. I discussed the main parameters and background […]

Leah gave this paper Leah Davcheva and Richard Fay — “Snatches of Spain in the stories of Sephardim in Bulgaria”, paper presented at the 1st Global Erensya Platform Summit, Bulgaria, 19th -21st September 2011 (link now takes you to a general website rather than the summit website, SD). ppt … on Monday to a particularly special (given our topic) audience in […]

Hi folks, At the conference, I mentioned a distinction that I thought could be useful to us between usable and useful knowledge. I said I would pass on the reference. Well, I had come across it in Wikely & Muschamp (2004) and I have since followed up their acknowledgement of Baker (2003).  In so doing, however, I have discovered that […]