El 4 de Noviembre asistí al taller denominado “Encuentros Etnográficos” en la Universidad de Southampton. En esta conferencia, algunos ponentes (profesores, autores de libros, etc.) hablaron sobre la importancia de las estancias en el extranjero para los estudiantes de lenguas modernas. Se hablo también sobre sus beneficios y los resultados obtenidos al colaborar entre universidades. De hecho dos ex-alumnas presentaron el […]
Read moreDid you know that this year’s Oxford Dictionary word of the year is actually an emoji? Read the article to find out more. Anything in this for the interculturally inclined members of our community?
Read moreA Greek colleague of Richard, Dina, is looking for EFL teachers to complete a survey on how competent they feel about teaching students with dyslexia and professional training needs in this area. Here’s the link to the questionnaire if you would like to take part and help Dina out. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DysTEFLCompetenceandNeedsAnalysisQuestionnaire
Read moreThe Association for Language Awareness is calling for proposals for papers and posters for the 13th International Language Awareness Conference (ALA 2016) Languages for Life: Educational, Professional and Social Contexts that will take place at the WU Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business) from July 19-22, 2016. The submission deadline for both is 15 November 2015. Conference Themes LALT: Language Awareness in Language Learning and Language Teaching LAWB: […]
Read moreAchilleas Kostoulas has posted an informative and insightful post in his blog about the recent mass resignation of the Lingua journal editorial board and reviewers. Well worth reading.
Read moreOne of the MA TESOL students, Paul Jones, has alerted us to a site that hosts podcasts of various TESOL related issues. Here is one that Paul recommended … An interview with Adrian Holliday on Appropriate Methodology … and here are a few more interviews that might be of interest to our community: Tom Farrell on Reflective Practice Richard Smith on […]
Read moreHere is the link to last Friday’s IATEFL Web Conference paper given by Juup Stelma on Language Teachers doing Research: What, How and Why. This means if you didn’t make the actual event, you can still watch Juup in action.
Read moreAchilleas Kostoulas has posted the following request on his blog, which comes from his colleague, Sarah Mercer and her research partner Christina Gkonou. Perhaps you could complete the questionnaire and send it on to anyone else who might be interested. Just click on the link at the end of the letter explaining the research. Dear English Language Teacher, We would be grateful […]
Read moreMultilingual CALL: Multilingual Language Learning with Digital Media in Primary and Secondary Classrooms Frankfurt, February 17-18, 2016 Learners of a second or foreign language are not homogeneous with regard to their linguistic backgrounds and their degree of fluency in different languages. Students often have skills in more than one language, including languages previously studied at school, as well as heritage […]
Read moreSpeaker: Prof Andy Kirkpatrick (Griffith University, Australia) Thursday 29 October, at 17:00 in room RHB 137 (Richard Hoggart building) Location: Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/ Abstract In this presentation I shall consider the implications of the development of English as a lingua franca in East and Southeast Asia with a focus on two specific issues: first, what are […]
Read moreThis is an all-day performance workshop run by award-winning poet Tawona Sithole of the Researching Multilingually at Borders project that Richard is part of. They are asking for participants to go up to Glasgow and test out some of the materials that Tawona is writing for the final project performance. If you have always fancied a go at acting, then why […]
Read moreI have now attended three classes in Koine (New Testament) Greek in the space of 8 days. In that time I have had to come to grips with a completely new alphabet (learn the names of the letters, how to write them and pronounce them, diphthongs, breathings, punctuation, subscripts …), learn how to conjugate two different verb types, decline one type of noun […]
Read moreThe Applied Linguistic and Communication group at Newcastle University are active through a variety of online and social media accounts. They say that through these they provide news, updates and discussions related to their research activities and interests, mostly in the areas of Applied Linguistics, language learning, TESOL, Cross-/Inter-Cultural Communication, and Discourse and social interaction. They invite us to have a […]
Read moreA freshly minted book written by Anne Swan, Pamela Aboshiha, and Adrian Holliday. For us interested in Native-Nonnative speakearism issues in English Language Teaching. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/encountering-nativespeakerism-anne-swan/?isb=9781137463494
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