Yesterday we had our BAAL colloquium in Bristol: Jane Andrews ppt Xiaowei Zhou (and Richard Fay) ppt Mariam Attia ppt Richard Fay & Leah Davcheva ppt The Colloquium went really well. We did not have a large audience but those who came seemed interested in the work as reflected in the questions asked. Ros Mitchell, for example asked a question about […]
Read moreHere is a link to an interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/worldwise/defining-internationalization/28615 Magda
Read moreThe Australian Review of Applied Linguistics has published a special issue on English as an International language, which is available free of charge from the link below: http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/aral/issue/view/175 There are articles by all the ‘usual suspects’ (Phillipson, Pennycook, Kirkpatrick, Seidlhoffer and others).
Read moreThis is the first newsletter in what I hope will become a monthly endeavour p?sted towards the end of the month concerned. If you want me to include any items, let me know as and when the item arises, and I will include it in the next Newsletter. Alternatively, you can add you news as a comment to my postings. The […]
Read moreOn Friday the 19th of August, the British Council office in Kabul was attacked by two suicide bombers. Several people were killed, mostly Afghani policemen. The attack took place on the day marking 92 years of Afghanistan’s independence from the British rule in 1919. Although the Guardian said that “it was unclear whether the attack was related to the […]
Read moreI am putting this under ‘Research Methods’ although it’s really about supervisory cultures/approaches. I am currently reading the following book: Lee, Anna (2012!). Successful research supervision: advising students doing research. London and New York, Routledge. In it, Lee identifies five (potentially interconnected) supervisory approaches as follows: (institutionally-oriented) functional (relating to Code sof Practice, contractual obligations, organisational matters Panels etc); supporting enculturation; developing critical thinking; enabling […]
Read moreLast May, I submitted a proposal for a paper “English Language, Arab Students, Polish Teacher: Hybrid Identities in a Globalised Qatari Classroom” to be presented at the 4th International Adriatic-Ionian Conference, ACROSS LANGUAGES AND CULTURES, at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 1-3 September, 2011. The proposal was accepted in June for presentation at the Intercultural Education/Cultural Identity and Globalisation session. […]
Read moreHere’s some info on a new journal I litterally stumbled upon. The topic of the journal is (obviously) English as a Lingua Franca, and it’s edited by Jennifer Jenkins, Barbara Seidlhoffer and Anna Mauranen. There doesn’t seem to be a page anywhere with information for authors, but I thought it might be interesting nonetheless
Read moreHere are the latest Shanghai rankings. The University of Manchester appears to be in the 5th place in the UK table, 5th in Europe (used to be 9th) and 38th in the world ranking (used to be 44th).
Read moreHello everyone, Following email communication with members from the doctoral community on the topic of writing-up, I suggested moving the discussion to the blog for possible wider participation. I thought I would start this thread for sharing thoughts, ideas, pleasures, and pains of writing-up with the hope of turning it into an enjoyable process of creative production especially for those […]
Read moreBy now, I think all of you will know that Julian will be retiring from the LTE group from the end of September. For his ‘take’ on this, see Edgeblog #18 . More, much more, can and will not doubt be said on this theme, but for now I just want to wish him well in all that comes next.
Read moreAll of you may be interested in the resources for supervisors to which staff are now being directed in our Faculty, i.e. the Training for Supervisors webpage. Richard
Read moreRichard sent me this link: http://www.vitae.ac.uk/CMS/files/upload/Vitae-Researcher-Development-Framework.pdf Looking around, this seems like a huge initiative. 15 million pounds of funding from 2007 to 2012. They are funded by the research councils … but their website and outward presentation looks very corporate. They have a two day conference at the Midland hotel in Manchester in early September, but the rates are about […]
Read moreMair, M., Watson, P., Elsey, C., & P. V. Smith (forthcoming). War-making and sense-making: some technical reflections on an instance of ‘friendly fire, forthcoming in British Journal of Sociology (details to follow). — This article is the further development an earlier conference paper [ppt]
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