Congratulations are indeed in order … Ivy has sailed through her Viva gaining an Aii Pass with just two required amendments and, in an interesting move by her Examiners (Juup Stelma and Aisha Walker), three invitations. Both examiners were highly complimentary about Ivy’s thesis and her Viva discussions of it. What a wonderful outcome from her doctoral studies. Congratulations once […]
Read moreCongratulations to Felix on his new publication! To read the full article: Link Enhancing EFL students’ participation through translanguaging Felix Kwihangana ELT Journal, ccaa058, https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccaa058 Published: 08 February 2021 Abstract This study explored multilingual students’ attitudes towards translanguaging after the practice was introduced in group activities aimed at improving their English language skills and classroom engagement. A cohort of students taking a pre-sessional English […]
Read moreA moment to celebrate the pedagogical strengths within LANTERN: Olga is the “Best Lecturer” (according to Student feedback 2019-2020 at her university in Moscow). Congratulations, Olga !
Read moreCongratulations to Eljee who has newly published a chapter on ‘Almost native-speakers: the experiences of visible ethnic-minority, native-English speaking teachers‘!! Javier, E. (2016). Almost native-speakers: the experiences of visible ethnic-minority, native-English speaking teachers. In LETs and NESTs: Voices, Views and Vignettes by Copland, F., Garton, S., and Mann, S. (eds.). London: British Council, pp. 253 – 267. You may also find more […]
Read moreCongratulations to Richard Fay and Juup Stelma on their new book chapter “Criticality, intentionality and intercultural action” published in the Routledge book The Critical Turn in Language and Intercultural Communication Pedagogy: Theory, Research and Practice. The chapter presents an ecological framed understanding of criticality developed through and for their MA-level researcher education courses (e.g. TESOL, and IC). To cite it: Fay, R. […]
Read moreCongratulations to our wider member Pérez-Gracia Elisa at the University of Córdoba (Spain), who has just passed her thesis defence cum laude!! Very best wishes from LANTERN for this significant milestone of her life and professional career!
Read moreCongratulations to Dalal who has just passed her viva (with an excellent achievement of A2)!! Her research topic was: “The experiences of Saudi female teachers using technology in primary schools in Saudi Arabia”. Her main supervisors are Juup Stelma and Susan brown. The internal examiner was Gary Motteram and external examiner was Aisha Walker from Leeds University. We are overjoyed […]
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