Category: Miscellaneous news etc

2nd call for papers – Languages for Life: Educational, Professional and Social Contexts, Vienna, July 2016

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The 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: […]

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TESOL Podcast site

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One 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 […]

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Plea for help: A questionnaire for ELT teachers

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Achilleas 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 […]

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Multilingual Language Learning with Digital Media (Call for abstracts)

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Multilingual 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 […]

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Seminar at Goldsmiths, University College, London with Prof Andy Kirkpatrick on ‘English as a Lingua Franca in Asia – implications for pedagogy’

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Speaker: 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 […]

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A rather different call – not for papers, but for participants!

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This 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 […]

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Social media and online accounts for the Applied Linguistics and Communication group at Newcastle University

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The 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 […]

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New collection with free access to articles on international and Foreign language Students

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International & Foreign Language Students International education and foreign language learning is an area of education that has evolved dramatically in the last few decades. This collection covers many contemporary issues surrounding international and foreign language students, such as: Language learning Student experience Teaching Technology Curriculum Education policy Download articles here.

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New book on Online Intercultural exchange

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This is a new book edited by Robert O’Dowd and Tim Lewis, and includes contributions by several Cultnet people. (For more information on Cutlet, see reflections by Khwan and Min) The publishers say: This volume provides a state of the art overview of Online Intercultural Exchange (OIE) in university education and demonstrates how educators can use OIE to address current challenges […]

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