Reflections & notes on surveys
I’ve put together an annotated list of references on survey research, which I thought might be useful to some of the readers here as well. Comments are welcome; additional sources even more so. 🙂
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New book series: Post-Intercultural Communication and Education
Cambridge Scholars Press are publishing a new book series, edited by Prof. Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki), titled Post-Intercultural Communication and Education. According to their announcement: This book series, eclectic in scope, seeks to extend and revitalize scholarship on intercultural communication and education by publishing innovative, interdisciplinary and critical analyses of intercultural encounters. “Post-intercultural” refers to a recent paradigm shift in the […]
Read moreRookie review
Young reviewers are certainly sought after. “The best referees are postdocs,” says Leslie Sage, a senior physical-sciences editor at Nature in Washington DC. “They are at the top of their game, well versed in the literature and politically naive enough to tell the truth.” For this and more interesting insights into the peer-review process, you may want to have a look into […]
Read more"Besides, isn't this what we always wanted?"
In an article titled ‘Empowerment as a Pedagogy of Possibility‘ (Language Arts 64 4), Roger Simon makes the following observation: As an introduction to, preparation for, and legitimation of particular forms of social life, education always presupposes a vision of the future. In this respect, a curriculum and its supporting pedagogy are a vision of our own dreams of ourselves, […]
Read moreBuilding small-t theories
Just a note to say that next Saturaday I will be delivering a talk at an event organised by a professional association (the Panhellenic Association of State Schools Teachers of English). The overarching theme of the event is “Empowering Language Learning and Teaching”, and I will be talking about how my conceptual framework of ELT in Greece can be used […]
Read moreAustralian Review of Applied Linguistics (EIL)
The 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 moreJournal of English as a Lingua Franca
Here’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 moreNot gloating, but…
Here 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 moreOn plagiarism (again)
I was wondering if people might weigh in on this question that’s puzzling me. I was recently reading a PhD thesis awarded by a Greek university. Let’s say that the title was something like, ‘Teaching English as a Second Language in Manchester from 1917 to 1967‘. The bulk of the thesis focuses on historical aspects of TESOL, as it contains […]
Read moreNew webpage, comments welcome
After lots and lots of procrastination, I finally have a workable version of my webpage online: https://sites.google.com/site/achkostoulas/. I expect that I will eventually populate it with abstracts, papers and presentations that are already scattered across the web, and I may be creating versions in other languages as well. But I am reasonably happy with it for the time being. For the […]
Read moreAndrea's dilemma: finding a voice
Andrea and I were both taking our first steps into the world of ELT, she as a nine-year old pupil and I as a teacher freshly out of what passes as ITE in Greece. I’d noticed her on occasion, waiting alone at the lobby, generally keeping to herself, sometimes reading a list of irregular verbs or, just as often, looking […]
Read moreNew Dynamics of Language Learning (Complexity papers)
There is, I think, very little point on trying to complete or complete with Lou’s comprehensive and engaging narrative on the Jyväskylä conference, so I will confine myself to reporting on a few papers that were of particular interest to me. The theme which links these papers is that they are all informed by complexity thinking, which involves -in brief- […]
Read moreArticle out…
Achilleas Kostoulas in his neat piece “English as a Lingua Franca and Methodological Tension: Attitudes and Practices at a Language School in Greece” considers the case of a language school in Greece… Thus wrote the editor of in esse, where my article appears. One does feel rather nice about oneself today… Achilleas
Read moreStasis and change…
The paper I am presenting at the LTE event in early June is (tentatively) titled Stasis and Change: conceptualising ELT as a complex dynamical system. The paper was originally written for the New Dynamics conference in Finland, where it will be presented as ‘Places for Pedagogy, Spaces for Innovation: the emergence of eclectic pedagogy in ELT settings‘. The paper reports on […]
Read moreArts and Education: Creative Ways into Languages
On Saturday (7th May) I am presenting a paper at a conference Arts and Education: Creative Ways into Languages in Athens. This international conference is organised by the University of Athens (Department of Primary Education) and the Greek Association of Primary Music Education, a professional body which represents music education specialists that teach Art in the primary education system. To provide […]
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