Jenna Mittlemeier (Lecturer in Education (International)) is co-editing a special issue for the JIME journal that is showcasing doctoral students’ research related to educational technology. Submissions are due Feb 15 and can be full papers or shorter works-in-progress papers. More info: https://www-jime.open.ac.uk/announcement/
Read moreAt the end of October, Gary Motteram and I presented a paper at the CARN (Collaborative Action Research Network) conference that was held in the Friends Meeting House, Manchester – a great venue by the way. It was one of those smallish, friendly conferences with built in opportunities for discussion in small groups. The conference covered all types of participatory […]
Read moreThis is an online discussion around three recently published books (Volha and I both have chapters in one of them). It is being hosted by Mark Wyatt in IATEFL’s Adobe Connect Room http://iatefl.adobeconnect.com/resigwebinars/ and the three books to be discussed are: Kenan Dikilitaş on his recent book with Carol Griffiths on developing language teacher autonomy through action research. Sian Etherington […]
Read moreThank you very much to Min and Nahielly for organising today’s A.maze.ing event for our LANTERN community. I not only thoroughly enjoyed myself making piñatas, drawing batik patterns, and responding to different images, but was also encouraged through Min’s mountain activity, and given much food for thought in the other presentations. Khwan spoke of how important our LANTERN community has been for her, and I think many of […]
Read moreWarwick Applied Linguistics is pleased to announce the 20th Warwick International Conference in Applied Linguistics which will be held from Tuesday, 27th to Thursday, 29th June 2016. This conference is a successful tradition at Warwick Applied Linguistics which, every year, brings together many research students (masters and PhD) within and outside the UK. This year, however, we have decided to welcome contributions from Undergraduate students, as well! […]
Read moreVolha 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 […]
Read moreThe pre-conference event of the Research SIG at this year’s IATEFL conference in Glasgow is looking at the history of ELT to mark the 50th anniversay of IATEFL. It’s being led by Richard Smith and Friederike Klippel and if you’re interested check out the details here.
Read moreI’ve just found out about this and am posting it here in case anyone is interested. It’s being run by Vitae and the topic is: Coping with stress and anxiety: health and well-being for researchers. It will take place on the 14 March between 2-3pm (UK Time). This is an opportunity for your researchers to learn more about looking after […]
Read moreIt’s been a long time coming, but at last a book chapter I wrote the first draft for back in November 2015 has been published. It is about the classroom-based research that I undertook with the learners of EUS9 (English for University Studies, class 9), and was written in collaboration with two of the learners. The chapter is titled: ‘EAP learners […]
Read moreLast 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 […]
Read moreToday I received a letter addressed to Dr Dawson confirming my degree award. The email also advised me that on the day of my graduation, I will lose all access to my university personal drive and email address. It is a reminder that I have now come to the end, and perhaps it is therefore a fitting time to reflect […]
Read moreThis will take place on 3rd April, 2017 at IATEFL Glasgow. Here is what the organisers say about the event: This one-day event aims to show how uncovering ELT history can provide useful new perspectives, both for our own professional practice and for the field more generally. From an initial focus on participants’ language learning and professional histories, we will […]
Read moreThis is being held at Manchester Metropolitan University, Business School Building, Room BS 3.28 on Friday 16th September. Duygu and Nahielly are representing our community, so if you are around and would like to go and support them book a ticket quickly as there are only a few left. 0900 Registration and tea/coffee 0920 Welcome and introduction by the workshop […]
Read moreThis is not a pre-conference workshop directly sponsored by IALIC , because at least one strand in the conference (on technology) and the theme of the workshop are quite similar, but the UNICollaboration Association has decided to offer the sessions for free the day before the conference as part of their launch campaign. See attached Flyer for more information. The association recently […]
Read moreThis is an open access journal available here and contains the following articles: Articles Reflexive themes in context: a case study in Japan – Hugh Scott Smith & Alexey Kukharuk Task-based learning in language teacher education – Bill Littlewood Why practice makes perfect sense: the past, the present and potential future of the PPP paradigm in language teacher education – Jason Anderson Special educational needs […]
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