World Refugee Day was on June 20th, a few days ago now, but the stories and statistics don’t disappear once the day is over. This year the focus was on the 10 million or so displaced children and their urgent need for education. Find out more here. Here is a link to the UN Refugee Agency
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This new issue is available at Wiley Online library. See below for content and links to individual articles. President’s Messages Intercultural Engagement (pages 163–164) Jacque Van Houten Article first published online: 22 JUN 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/flan.12142 Editor’s Message (pages 165–167) Anne Nerenz Article first published online: 22 JUN 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/flan.12141 Teaching Language Learners to Elaborate on Their Responses: […]
Read moreA very interesting looking book to be published on July 29th, 2015. Carefully curated to highlight research from more than twenty countries, the International Critical Pedagogy Reader introduces the ways the educational phenomenon that is critical pedagogy are being reinvented and reframed around the world. A collection of essays from both historical and contemporary thinkers coupled with original essays, introduce […]
Read moreA novel conference taking place from Friday 15th January – Sunday 17th January 2016, London, United Kingdom hashtag n. (on social media web sites and applications) a word or phrase preceded by a hash and used to identify messages relating to a specific topic; (also) the hash symbol itself, when used in this way. Hashtags originated on, and are chiefly associated […]
Read moreAs we get your permission, we’ll be posting all the presentations from Bring it Back Home 2015 here. Gary Motteram Paul Breen Magda Rostron Lada Smirnova Sutraphorn Tantiniranat (Khwan) Siti Fitriyah (Fitri) Eljee Javier
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Here is the link to Magdalena’s article that she was referring to yesterday. Congratulations Made on getting published too! http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjet.12302/epdf
Read moreTyson Seburn has published an ebook aimed at teachers who teach Academic English, focussing particularly on academic reading skills. It seems to me that it would be useful for developing critical thinking too. Here is what Tyson says about his new materials: ARC is an intensive reading approach whose components work on the basis that deep textual comprehension for language learners is developed better through initial collaboration […]
Read moreIt is now less than a week before the 2015 ‘Bring it back home’ event. Last year, eight of our community (2 staff, 5 current students and one postdoc) presented a conference paper they had given in some location around the world during that year. Achilleas was one of those students, and joined us via Skype. This year we are going bigger and […]
Read moreCritical Perspectives on Neoliberalism in Second/Foreign Language Education With guest editors Katie A. Bernstein, Emily A. Hellmich, Noah Katznelson, Jaran Shin, and Kimberly Vinall Accountability, competitiveness, efficiency, profit: While it is not surprising to hear these terms in corporate offices around the world, it is slightly alarming to hear these terms in reference to schools, teachers, and students. Second/foreign language […]
Read moreEnglish Today http://journals.cambridge.org/ENG Volume 31 / Issue 02 , June 2015, pp 2 – 64 Published Online on 28th May 2015 Contents
Read moreWord Length – Latest Faculty Guidance Students must not make requests for extensions to the thesis word limit justified on the basis of the student doing interdisciplinary research (and thus having to address literature and debates across disciplines), and/or doing qualitative methods. The use of both is common in the Humanities, and themselves not justification for an increase in word […]
Read moreLanguage Teaching Research announces a call for abstracts for a special topic issue on intercultural citizenship in the (foreign) language classroom. The issue will address empirical, conceptual, and theoretical concerns related to the development of critical cultural awareness, which is of special importance particularly in the field of English language education, considering the status of English as a global language […]
Read moreAn interesting article from the Inside Higher Ed website about the increasing use of English in universities worldwide. It would be interesting to hear comments from around the world on the issues raised in the article.
Read moreAccording to the Council of Europe ‘Citizenship and human rights education is about learning to live together and respect each other. It is also about knowing and understanding your rights in order to play an active role in decisions that concern you’. Here is the link to a children’s version of the charter, which gives a (very) simplified overview of […]
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