The Study Abroad Research group SAREP would like to invite you to the first lecture in their spring/summer series. Prof Ros Mitchell and Dr Emre Guvendir will present their paper ”Plurilingualism in study abroad: The language affiliations of mobile students”. It will take place on Zoom on Thursday 18 Feb at 17.00 Irish time. Everyone is welcome. The event is […]
Read moreThe “2nd Online International Doctoral Research Conference in Education” will take place on 7th July 2021 by Zoom video conference. This will be a fully online event. The conference is aimed at postgraduate research students around the world who are working in the field of educational research and who wish to present their work to a like-minded audience of doctoral […]
Read moreSophia Mavridi is our MA alumna and she will hold a free panel discussion on hybrid learning in language teaching organisations on Tuesday 12 Jan 16.00 UK time with Thom Kiddle (NILE), Chris Farrell (CES), and John Glew-O’Leary (IH Manchester). If you are interested in hybrid learning, please book your place here. If you want to download and […]
Read moreFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mahasarakham University, in conjunction with the educational partnerships, holds the 2nd Language, Society, and Culture International Conference (LSCIC) under the theme: Harmony in Diversity: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Glocalisation on 26-27 March 2021. Please see the poster below. If you want more detailed information on what kind of papers/presentations are needed and the specific deadlines, […]
Read moreCall for chapters in Understanding Rural Education (Bill Reynolds, Series Editor),a new volume in the book series: English Language Education in Rural Contexts: Theory, Research, and Practices. The deadline for abstracts is Feb. 1st, and full chapter deadline is June 1st. Possible topics might address one or more of the following (but not limited to these topics): · Effectiveness of […]
Read moreThe 2021 ICLHE Conference highlights the language that has become dominant in many spheres, English, and how English is impacting on the classroom, the key actors involved, the university and society, including other languages of learning. English has become a central factor in the internationalization of universities. They invite proposals for contributed papers, poster presentations, workshops, and colloquia within the […]
Read moreI’m happy to share a research report on a collaborative project on hybrid learning with our MA alumna (Sophia Mavridi who is now a digital learning specialist and lecturer in English teaching at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK) involved in. In her report on the hybrid classroom, the new teaching methods emerged during COVID-19 are addressed. In order to […]
Read moreHi 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 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 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 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 moreHello, everyone! Hope you’re all doing well. It’s the first post after a long break of LANTERN. I’d like to introduce the very practical and inspiring textbook by Caprice and Irina on intercultural competence for college and university students. It provides us with a very updated view and pedagogical implication based on their abundant cross-cultural working experience in the globalized and […]
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