Hi everyone. Enjoy Chrismas break! Here’s information about two open lectures from the Global Education Center, Tokyo Kasei University. Two renowned international speakers (Professor Adrian Holliday and Dr Marek Kiczkowiak) will hold the open lectures to promote new ideas about what kinds of intercultural and communicative skills we need to foster global citizenship and move towards a more free and […]
Read moreThis is the abstract of my reflective article about impostor syndrome which I mentioned in the LANTERN web talk few days ago 🙂 It is now under review. Fingers crossed :-)) Surviving Impostor Syndrome: Navigating through the Mental Roller-coaster of a Doctoral Sojourn Abstract Studying overseas may offer myriad riches of extraordinary experiences, especially due to the opportunities to immerse […]
Read moreLink Call for chapter proposals for the edited volume, “Ethical deliberations in multilingual education: Power relations in learning communities.” https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kVx9YoHGMjmq4JAiwA6bV3ot_LnCsvYgNNysFsrJxfs/edit?usp=sharing CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Abstract Submission Deadline: January 30, 2021 Ethical deliberations in multilingual education: Power relations in learning communities Editors Theresa Austin,University of Massachusetts, Amherst Hatice Çelebi,University of Massachusetts, Amherst Introduction The teaching of world languages across national […]
Read moreHi, guys! I want to inform you about a book recently published in Norway: Teaching and Learning English Interculturally. It contains these chapters: – Intercultural learning and global citizenship in the English language classroom (Magne Dypedahl & Ragnhild E. Lund) – Language learning and intercultural learning (Ragnhild E. Lund) – Multilingualism and intercultural competence (Christian Carlsen) – Culture studies for […]
Read moreIntroduction Research indicates the vital importance of contextualised, needs-based support structures and systems for students studying in an EM environment and for content lecturers using EM. Additionally, as language in education policy impacts on all levels of campus life, it can be argued that wider support structures, support for administrative staff and departmental staff, are a necessity. What student, content […]
Read moreA two-day Webinar on pragmatic awareness and multilingual classroom discourse will be held through Google Meet on 21st and 22nd December. Speakers and topics as shown below. 21st: From 11.00 (CET) ISTVÁN KECSKÉS–Developing common ground in English as a Lingua Franca discourse ANGEL LIN, QINGHUA CHEN & PEDRO DOS SANTOS–Navigating Academia in North America with Translanguaging Awareness 22nd: From 13.00 […]
Read moreNew Book From Cambridge University Press, Here is the link to this book: Intercultural Communication and Language Pedagogy from Theory to Practice Intercultural Communication and Language Pedagogy From Theory to Practice Author: Zsuzsanna I. Abrams, University of California, Santa Cruz PUBLISHED: August 2020 ‘This is an excellent and comprehensive read on the topic of intercultural communication, with very useful teaching […]
Read moreHi, guys! Happy Friday! Second post for today. Hope this post can bring some extra productivity into your life today! I’d like to share an interesting 5-minute video about translanguaging in this post. This video mainly discusses the conception of translanguaging and how to teach students to implement translanguaging in a very vivid and concise way. And the animation makes […]
Read moreELT Journal is known as an international journal for TESOL teachers. In in this volume, it discusses English as a lingua franca and language teaching (mainly about reflection). This volume gets some very positive reviews and may be of pedagogical implications. If you want to know more about the articles involved in detail, please have a look at this […]
Read moreLINK https://myview.uea.ac.uk/webrecruitment/pages/vacancy.jsf?vacancyRef=RA1804 FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING Research Associate (Part-time 0.5fte, Fixed Term) Ref: RA1804 £26,715 to £32,817 per annum, Pro rata UEA has some of the most innovative and highly regarded centres for research in the UK. Applications are invited for the post of Research Associate to undertake research in collaboration […]
Read more“The central idea of the book is that there is an ‘ecology of ideas’ in TESOL, which consists of established practices, rules, expectations and more. We (Juup and I) call this an intentional ecology and examine how shapes activity and meaning-making in TESOL; we also discuss how this activity comes back to recursively shape the intentional ecology. The book consists […]
Read morePlease share this widely with current and past international students – thanks so much! Darla Deardorff, Duke University Do you know an international student with a story to share? Share this opportunity with them. Developing Intercultural Competence: International Students’ Journeys Lily A. Arasaratnam-Smith & Darla K. Deardorff. Routledge Studies in Global Student Mobility book series [Krishna Bista and Chris R. […]
Read moreWe (i.e. Richard, Jane and Min) submitted an article with this abstract today – let’s see how the review process goes !! Narrowing the gap between institutional practice and aspiring praxis: Developing critical intercultural supervisory cultures in largely Anglophone UK university contexts Abstract: As contextualised by doctoral supervision in largely Anglophone Departments of Education in UK universities, this article seeks […]
Read moreLink: p.25 Guardian, Wednesday 2nd December, 2020 Ofsted chief resists calls to make England school curriculum more diverse ‘Teach science behind climate change not morality tale,’ says Amanda Spielman The chief inspector of schools in England has pushed back against growing calls to make the national curriculum more diverse, warning against making curriculum changes based on a single issue or purpose. Speaking […]
Read moreLink Bekar, M. and Fay, R. (2020). Developing Anglo-centric literacy: problematizing understandings of criticality. In A. Simpson & F. Dervin (Eds.), The meanings of criticality in education research: reflecting on critical pedagogy. (pp.23-45). Cham.: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56009-6_2 Abstract: In this chapter, with a focus on Anglo-centred academic literacy, we seek to problematize the concept of criticality in educational thinking. […]
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