How to teach TESOL ethically in an English-dominant world

Link: How to teach TESOL ethically in an English-dominant world TESOL and social justice One of the thrusts of my research has been a critical examination of the social consequences of the global spread of English. In my book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice, for example, I argue that “Englishization” engenders an external orientation to development. Knowledge produced and disseminated through […]

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Extended deadline: BAICE 2016 student conference – Understanding, embracing and reflecting upon the messiness of the fieldwork

Many of you will have seen this via email, but I thought I’d post it anyway as it strikes me as an interesting focus, and one that we often reflect on in the pages of this blog. Anyone up for this? Extended Deadline: May 15  BAICE 2016 Student Conference – Call for Papers Understanding, embracing and reflecting upon the messiness of […]

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Ethical musings

I have just got back from a few days at this year’s IATEFL conference in Harrogate. Perhaps I’ll blog about the conference itself sometime, but what I’d like to try and write down now is the essence of what for me was a very interesting series of conversations. They started in the very elegant surroundings of Betty’s tearooms  (Harrogate tea, […]

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