Author: Susan Dawson

One day conference: Multilingualism in the digital age, Reading

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The Department of English Language an Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading will be hosting a one day conference on Multilingualism in the Digital Age. The conference will take place on the 19th of June and the plenary speakers are Professor Alexandra Georgakopoulou (King’s College London) and Professor Yaron Matras (University of Manchester). The event is free, but due to a limited amount of spaces, booking is […]

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Research seminar with Suresh Canagarajah: Theorizing a Language Competence for Negotiating Superdiversity, London

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This looks like an extremely interesting seminar from Suresh Canagarajah being held in London at the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics on July 1st. Please see below for more details:  Theorizing a Language Competence for Negotiating Superdiversity   Suresh Canagarajah Pennsylvania State University 17:00-18:00 Wednesday 1st July 2015 Room 642, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL Abstract: Mary Louise Pratt (1987) initiated an […]

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Andy Kirkpatrick on ‘English as a Lingua Franca in Asia: Suggestions for ELT/ELF Policy and Pedagogy’, Bath

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Andy Kirkpatrick, Visiting Professor in the Language and Educational Practices research cluster of the Department of Education, University of Bath, will give his first research seminar presentation at Bath on Tuesday 16th June. Title:  English as a Lingua Franca in Asia: Suggestions for ELT/ELF Policy and Pedagogy Time: 2pm Place:  CB 4.1, Chancellors’ Building, University of Bath main campus, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY Abstract:  In this […]

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Call for papers: AAAL conference 2016, Orlando

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The conference run by the American Association of Applied Linguistics will take place in Orlando, Florida from 9-12 April, 2016. There was a lot of talk about both this and the TESOL Convention at IATEFL this year, and I got the impression that this one attracts mainly researchers whereas the TESOL convention attracts mainly practitioners. Anyhow here is some information and […]

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Call for papers: TESOL Convention 2016, deadline June 1st

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Next year’s TESOL convention will be held from 5 – 8 April 2016 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA and is being hosted by Maryland TESOL. The deadline for proposals is next week, Monday June 1st. Below are details of the theme, and you can get more information from their website and call for participation. 2016 Convention Theme: Beyond Borders TESOL has changed greatly over its […]

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Celebrating 50 years of Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck: Last event in the year

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  On 12 June 2015, Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication, Birkbeck College, University of London will be hosting a one day conference as a finale to our year-long series of events to celebrate 50 years of Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck. The conference will consist of talks by former and current colleagues and a Roundtable discussion where eminent scholars will […]

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Job opportunity: Tutors/Markers required for Distance MA Applied Linguistics and TESOL

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The School of Education, University of Leicester are seeking to expand our team of  experienced postgraduate tutors and markers for our large, well established distance Masters programme. Preference will be given to applicants with previous experience of working in distance, online education and with a broad range of expertise in Applied Linguistics and TESOL. For further information about the programme, please […]

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New issue of ‘Englishes in Practice’

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The new issue of Englishes in Practice is now available.  In his article Academic Rigour in Criticising English as a Lingua Franca, Tomokazu Ishikawa of Southampton’s Centre for Global Englishes responds to recent publications by Joseph Sung-Yul and Lionel Wee, John O’Regan and Suresh Canagarajah. http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/eip.2015.2.issue-2/eip-2015-0002/eip-2015-0002.xml Englishes in Practice is the working papers of the Centre for Global Englishes, University […]

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Call for papers: Special issue on Intercultural Education and the 21st Century School

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This is a special issue for the International Journal of Language and Applied Linguistics (IJLAL)  which is being edited by Elena Gómez Parra and Irina Golubeva. Elena spent six weeks with us here in Manchester recently, and both she and Irina were at CultNet. The special issue will be published in June 2016 and they invite you to submit your articles by 31st Dec. ’15. Further […]

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Posters presented at the IATEFL Research SIG Pre-conference event

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Both Volha and I presented posters at this year’s Research SIG event. The theme was about  developing as a researcher. The day was divided into three strands, with each strand given an ‘impulse’ by David Nunan, Sue Garton and Cynthia White. Volha’s poster formed part of Strand 1: A researchers’ journey: Challenges, issues and strategies. Mine was part of Strand 3: Identities, […]

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New Book: Foreign Language Learning as Intercultural Experience

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This is a new publication that forms part of the series on Intercultural Studies and Foreign Language Learning. It is edited by Arnd Witte and Theo Harden and looks at the subjective dimension. Below is the synopsis: Learning a foreign language in its cultural context has a significant effect on the subjective mind, ranging from the unsettling to the inspirational. The […]

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Collection of articles based on Cultural Diversity and Race in Education

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This is a collection of articles put together by Routledge to link in with the AERA annual meeting theme: Culture, Language and Heritage in Education Research and Praxis. They are all free to access and are grouped under the following themes: Adapting for Diversity Multiculturalism in Education Policy & Politics Religious Diversity Social Structure The Language Barrier  

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