Author: Susan Dawson

Testing the Limits of Linguistic Superdiversity, Stephen May, 1st February, UCL, London

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This is a free event to which all are welcome. While the recent preoccupation with superdiversity and multilingual (urban) repertoires in critical applied linguistics is a welcome development, the concept, and its application in applied linguistics, also have some significant, as yet largely unacknowledged, limitations. This presentation will explore these limitations and what might be done about them (if anything) […]

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II International Colloquium on Languages, Cultures, Identity in School and Society, Soria, Spain, July 2016

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The 2nd edition of the II International Colloquium on Languages, Cultures, Identity in School and Society, will be held in Soria, Spain, July 6-8, 2016. The Colloquium is organized by the School of Education at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, with the support of the City of Soria. Specific information about the Colloquium, including proposal submission procedures, is available […]

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New volume of English Language Teacher Education and Development now available

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The latest volume of English Language Teacher Education and Development Journal(Volume 18) is now freely available on-line. This volume contains the following articles: Developing teacher language awareness via in-service training: trainers’ beliefs – Daniel Xerri Becoming a better teacher in the writing class: a case study of a writing tutor in a university in China – Fu Bei Transnational English language teaching: opportunities for teacher learning and […]

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Postgraduate workshop – Researching Multilingually: Possibilities and Complexities, University of London, February 2016

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This is a one-day workshop looking at the sorts of questions researchers who are working in more than one language might ask: Am I allowed to include scholarly literature in Turkish? What if I conduct my interviews in Mandarin but have to write all my thesis in English? If I include data in Hindi, how will this affect my word […]

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Second call for papers for GlobELT: An international conference on teaching and learning English as an additional language, Antalya, Turkey, 14-17 April, 2016

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This is the 2nd GlobELT Conference (GlobELT: An international conference on teaching and learning English as an additional language (GlobELT 2016 Conference) in Antalya, Turkey on 14-17 April 2016.) For further information, visit their website at www.globeltconference.com  Deadline for abstract submission is January 4, 2016. Credentials The conference is organised under the supervision of scholars from Hacettepe University (Turkey), ELT Department in collaboration with INTESOL Turkey and Informascope. […]

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Artful Prose: A writing and visual thinking course for postgraduate researchers (MRes, MPhil, PhD), nurturing academic writing and making

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Min has sent me information for a very interesting (free!) course that is being led by Dr Amanda Ravetz and Dr Myna Trustram, Manchester School of Art, MMU. It is a series of four day workshops looking at the writing experience using art, drama and even bookmaking! To me it sounds like a very novel approach to thinking about writing and […]

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Call for papers – Interculturalism: Cultures and Identities, Oxford, July 2016

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This is the 9th Global Meeting of a Cultures, Traditions, Societies Project. The conference will be held from Monday 18th July – Wednesday 20th July 2016, Mansfield College, Oxford. There is an impressive and wide-ranging list of topics that are included in the conference theme. Interculturalism stands at the interface between the individual, local groups, societies and cultures. These compete, conflict, co-exist and trigger […]

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Interesting workshop for those doing an ethnographic study, January 2016, University of Leeds

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There are a final few places available for the Linguistic Ethnography data workshops (15-16 January, in Leeds, UK). The fee is only £20 for ECRs and free to current PhDs, and the final deadline is 14 December. Please see the call details below. You are warmly invited to join fellow PhD students and ECRs to explore different perspectives on and approaches to […]

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