Link Engaging home and international students: a guide for new lecturers Download this PDF (730kb) This guide is for those new to teaching who work with diverse groups of students on mainstream undergraduate and taught postgraduate courses in UK higher education (HE). This guide will be useful to those who want to: learn about cultural diversity in approaches to […]
Read moreAfter completing my panel in October I have been working through completing the ethics forms for my PhD study. Originally it was seen to have a low risk level. However, from my panel feedback and discussions with colleagues in the department it appears that from the wording on the ethics form my study is actually medium.The primary reason for this? […]
Read moreThis quote caught my eye: “Time and memory are a fussy firm on interior decorators, always shifting the furniture about and redesigning and even reassigning rooms” (p.28) Banville, John (2012). Ancient Light. London: Viking/Penguin. A timely reminder, if ever we needed it, of the great importance of maintaining a Research(er) Journal THROUGHOUT the process and not rely on memory and […]
Read moreCarlos Ruiz Zafon (2008, English translation 2009). El Juego del Angel (translated by Lucia Graves as The Angel’s Game), Madrid: Editorial Planeta / London: Phoenix. pg.121 of the 2009 English translation: “Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters […]
Read moreI can’t believe it but I actually won this award! WAA! It’s for $800 USD to cover conference related costs. Considering I’m heading overseas next year for TESOL International Convention and English Language Expo 2013 every bit of funding helps. I was looking for any kind of external conference funding to help me get to TESOL 2013 and, upon a […]
Read moreCould be of interest to some? http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jan/10/esl-video-feedback?newsfeed=true
Read moreWe are pleased to announce the launch of the new European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL. The European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL is a refereed scholarly publication which aims to disseminate information, knowledge and expertise in the broad area of applied linguistics, with a strong preference for contributions relating to second language acquisition, as well as foreign […]
Read morePlease add your details to this page by logging in and then editing this page. As the months tick by, I will transfer the past papers to the Archived LTE papers category. December 2011 Lou Harvey – Critical English for Academic Purposes: Creating connection and community. Paper presented at Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Newer Researchers’ Conference, Newport, Wales, 6th-7th December 2011. […]
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 moreNext up, it’s Gary with his developing ideas for an upcoming comference paper in Sweden. his working title is: “Plus ça change, ça change tout?” The role of technology in language education in the early 21st century
Read moreDoing Research Multilingually (DRM) is the focus of a BAAL Colloquium proposal that has been accepted for the September 2011 BAAL conference (hosted in Bristol by the University of the West of England). The colloquium is framed by the following text: Social researchers in differing applied settings have questioned the apparent neglect of the challenges raised by researching in contexts of […]
Read moreThis proposal submitted by Juup, has now been accepted … Stelma, J. and Fay, R. (2011). Reflective construction of (conflicting) intentionalities: an ecological perspective on Masters-level research education. Paper (to be) presented at BERA 2011 Annual Conference, 6th – 8th September, 2011, hosted by the Institute of Education, London.
Read moreDo you all know about this one? Methods @ manchester Highlighting the depth and breadth of methodological expertise in the social sciences at the University of Manchester. Promoting and facilitating methodological excellence, innovation and inter-disciplinarity. http://www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/
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