An interesting post on academic writing which looks as if it has follow-on posts to come this month. Might be worth following for a few weeks. http://savageminds.org/2015/01/01/ethnographers-as-writers-an-introduction/
Read moreThis looks like an interesting event for anyone who wishes to engage with a broader audience. Academic Journalism: writing for readers 18 March 2015 University of Edinburgh This one-day workshop aims to convey the skills and knowledge to be able to successfully conceive, pitch and write a newspaper comment piece. Though public writing is an increasingly important part of academic […]
Read moreTraditionally, New Year is the time to look back at the happenings and achievements of the past 12 months and also look forward to the coming year and set goals and plans, often accompanied by resolutions. I’m not really one for resolutions – I never keep them anyway and my overarching goal this next year, at least in academic terms, is to […]
Read moreAcross the divide in Northern Ireland: A Catholic and a Protestant girl swap school uniforms in a fine short film produced as part of a project to teach children about the Troubles. Link to article and film: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/dec/14/across-divide-northern-ireland-film?CMP=share_btn_link
Read more‘Internationalisation’ is a key issue impacting on higher education today, but what is actually meant by this term and how does it relate to the notion of ‘global citizenship’, which also features prominently on the higher education agenda? How does the promotion of foreign language learning and intercultural communication help inform the pursuit of internationalisation? And, as the twenty-first century […]
Read moreHuge congratulations to Lou Harvey on her Ai pass yesterday afternoon. Really pleased for you!
Read moreHosted by the UCL Institute of Education, University College London 5:30 pm, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 Rm 731/736, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H OAL The talk will explore the relationship between Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE) and Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety (FLCA) in the FL classroom (Dewaele & MacIntyre, 2014). Participants were 1746 current FL learners from around the world. The […]
Read moreGENDER – POWER – HIERARCHY: CRITICAL ISSUES IN INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS Adopting a concept of intercultural training in which practical communication plays the central role means “focussing less on broad constructs like ‘culture’ and more on the everyday concrete actions through which culture is produced”.1 At the heart of such training is the interculturally appropriate use of language, in our case […]
Read moreAn interesting paper on what makes an inspiring teacher, based on research done in China and Indonesia. You can access it here.
Read moreThe seventeenth webinar in the IATEFL webinar series will take place on Saturday 29 November 2014 at 15.00 GMT. The webinar will be presented by Fiona Dunlop, who will be talking about ‘How to access CPD’. Fiona will be looking at the issue of continuing professional development and the opportunities available to busy professionals. She will give the participants tips […]
Read moreSpecial issue of the journal Frontiers of Education focused on Chinese Students and Scholars in the Global Community: Challenges of Integration together with a series of articles exploring academic interactions in the contexts of Australia, Denmark, Finland, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Singapore. We invite you to read our articles and take advantage of the free trial access until Dec 7th 2014. Feel […]
Read moreRichard writes: As many of you know, as prompted by a seminar by Adrian Holliday (based on his 1992 article) and sessions by former colleague Mike Beaumont, the major revelation from my own MA studies (back in the day) concerned appropriate methodology for TESOL, a very current issue then (before Holliday’s seminal publication on this theme was published in 1994) […]
Read moreContextualising Narrative Inquiry: Developing Methodlogical Approaches for Local Context Edited by Sheila Trahar Narrative inquiry is growing in popularity as a research methodology in the social sciences, medicine and the humanities. In narrative inquiry, the transparency of interactions between researcher and research participants, together with rich, contextual descriptions, help to shape and structure research texts rendering them engaging and readable. […]
Read moreCultural issues in address terms in translation by Jing Mei HAN With the incoming globalization, an increasing number of peoples have come to realize we have to know more about one another. To begin the communications, some native speakers of English may find it difficult to understand some basics such as the address terms in another culture. Thus knowledge about […]
Read moreCall for chapters Abstracts by 15th Dec. 2014 Demystifying Critical Thinking in Multilingual and Intercultural Education Edited by Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki, Finland) & Julie Byrd Clark (Western University, Canada) To be published by Info Age Publishing in 2016 BOOK SERIES Contemporary Language Education http://www.infoagepub.com/index.php?id=11&s=s0017 Following a very successful volume on reflexivity in multilingual and intercultural language education (Routledge, […]
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