{CALL FOR PAPERS} Academic Discourse in the Outer and Expanding Circles

Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics extended submission date  Academic Discourse in the Outer and Expanding Circles Submission Date Extension Special Issue on Academic Discourse in the Outer and Expanding Circles Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics’ Special Issue on Academic Discourse in the Outer and Expanding Circles will be published in November 2021. The deadline for typescripts’ submissions is extended to September […]

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{online event} CERA Webinar Series 2020/21: Educational Research During the Covid – 19 Pandemic

CERA Webinar Series 2020/21: Educational Research During the Covid – 19 Pandemic Register here. Event Webinar 3: Virtual Academic Writing Retreat Event Date  29 Jan 2021 9:00 am – 13:00 pm About the seminar: This virtual writing retreat will be a half day event. Druing this event, we will also have some discussions around ‘personalities, strengths and motivations’ for pursuing a academic career which will […]

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Recently published research articles

Hello, everyone! I would like to share my recently published research articles with you: Candarli, D., & Jones, S. (2019). Paradigmatic influences on lexical bundles in research articles in the discipline of education. Corpora, 14(2), 237–263. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/cor.2019.0170  Candarli, D. (2018). Changes in L2 writers’ self-reported metalinguistic knowledge of lexical phrases over one academic year. The Language Learning Journal, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2018.1520914 The abstracts are publicly […]

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Two more book contributions in ‘Developing as an EFL Researcher: Stories from the Field’

Volha and I both have contributions in the book ‘Developing as an EFL Researcher: Stories from the Field’ edited by Siân Etherington and Mark Daubney. This book is based on poster presentations from the IATEFL Research SIG pre-conference event held in Manchester in 2015. Both those posters are on the walls in the B3 corridor in Ellen Wilkinson. Volha’s contribution is […]

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Creative Writing for Academics Workshop with Kip Jones

Last year, Volha and I went on a course at Bournemouth University called ‘Creative writing for academics’. I wrote about our time there on this Blog, which also included the poem that Volha wrote as part of the course. The workshop also inspired ‘Chronicle of a teacher researcher’ which I read at our LANTERN summer event, Kaleidoscope 2016, and which is about […]

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Reflections on BAAL/Routledge Workshop

Please note that the first two paragraphs of this post were written by me, and the last two paragraphs were written by Nahielly. I and Nahielly had the opportunity to give a presentation at BAAL/Routledge Workshop ‘Expectations of and on international students in UK HE’ on 16th September at Manchester Metropolitan University. This workshop brought together researchers, professionals of English […]

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Two free seminars at Institute of Education, UCL, London

How do we write in English as a Lingua Franca? Anna Mauranen Vice-Rector and Professor of English, University of Helsinki, Editor of Applied Linguistics 17:30 Monday 22nd February, 2016 Room 642, 20 Bedford Way, UCL Institute of Education, London, WC1H 0AL   As ELF research has shown, communicating in English as a Lingua Franca is highly successful despite manifesting certain non-standard features, […]

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Artful Prose: A writing and visual thinking course for postgraduate researchers (MRes, MPhil, PhD), nurturing academic writing and making

Min has sent me information for a very interesting (free!) course that is being led by Dr Amanda Ravetz and Dr Myna Trustram, Manchester School of Art, MMU. It is a series of four day workshops looking at the writing experience using art, drama and even bookmaking! To me it sounds like a very novel approach to thinking about writing and […]

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