Blog post by Anita Lewicka on the native, non-native teacher issue
An interesting post in which Anita Lewicka reflects on both her native and non-native teachers of English and Italian.
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Job alert
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and experienced Project Manager to lead a unique and growing English Language project (called Action Language) run by an award winning charity: http://www.actionfoundation.org.uk/news_events_rec_projectman.html
Read moreClaire Kramsch — online intervew
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Read moreGaza online seminar series?
As reported in recent blog postings, PhD Education alumnus (from 1993), Professor Nazmi Al-Masri, from the Islamic University of Gaza, recently visited us as part of his UK trip to connect with colleagues (me included) from the AHRC-funded Researching Multilingually at Borders project – http://researching-multilingually-at-borders.com One idea that arose during Nazmi’s visit was that of our doctoral community developing a […]
Read moreWorld Refugee Day
World Refugee Day was on June 20th, a few days ago now, but the stories and statistics don’t disappear once the day is over. This year the focus was on the 10 million or so displaced children and their urgent need for education. Find out more here. Here is a link to the UN Refugee Agency
Read moreLatest issue: Foreign Language Annals
This new issue is available at Wiley Online library. See below for content and links to individual articles. President’s Messages Intercultural Engagement (pages 163–164) Jacque Van Houten Article first published online: 22 JUN 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/flan.12142 Editor’s Message (pages 165–167) Anne Nerenz Article first published online: 22 JUN 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/flan.12141 Teaching Language Learners to Elaborate on Their Responses: […]
Read moreNew Book: International Critical Pedagogy Reader, edited by Antonia Darder, Peter Mayo and João Paraskeva
A very interesting looking book to be published on July 29th, 2015. Carefully curated to highlight research from more than twenty countries, the International Critical Pedagogy Reader introduces the ways the educational phenomenon that is critical pedagogy are being reinvented and reframed around the world. A collection of essays from both historical and contemporary thinkers coupled with original essays, introduce […]
Read moreNew paper by Enric Llurda: ‘The decline and fall of the native speaker teacher’
Dissertations as tweets
Something light(er)-weight for the weekend – an entertaining, but also thought-provoking article from The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/all-possible-humanities-dissertations-considered-as-single-tweets It condenses into tweets all possible angles taken on research by academic theses. I find these two particularly amusing: A problem you thought you could solve defines your field; you can’t imagine the field without the problem. The name we’ve been using for […]
Read moreMother-tongue – a multi-ethnic counselling service with publication
Mothertongue -is a culturally sensitive, professional counselling and listening service where people are heard with respect in their chosen language. The charity offers holistic support to people and professional development to staff and volunteers from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities. It has just launched the anthology of interpreters’ writing: In Other Words, which was a great success. Details: If […]
Read moreBringing it back home, Mindfulness and sources of information about research methods
I realise that this is only one aspect of what we heard yesterday, but FutureLearn are offering a MOOC on Mindfulness from September. There are quite a lot of MOOCs from all the providers on aspects of Developing Researcher Competence. Sarah Twiby, one of our current MAs working on her dissertation, is using this YouTube channel to support her understanding […]
Read moreMagdalena de Stefani’s article – Social presence in the 21st century: An adjustment to theCommunity of Inquiry framework
Here is the link to Magdalena’s article that she was referring to yesterday. Congratulations Made on getting published too! http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjet.12302/epdf
Read moreReversed bike, confused mind
On the heels of our “Bring It Back Home 2015” conference (a great event!), here comes an interesting link sent to me by a former student, one clever Qatari man, who is studying Aerospace Engineering in the United States. This short video illustrates difficulties involved in “re-educating” the brain to think differently, outside its usual fixed paradigms. Yes, that’s hard […]
Read moreNew materials developed by MA Alumnus, Tyson Seburn: Academic Reading Circles
Tyson Seburn has published an ebook aimed at teachers who teach Academic English, focussing particularly on academic reading skills. It seems to me that it would be useful for developing critical thinking too. Here is what Tyson says about his new materials: ARC is an intensive reading approach whose components work on the basis that deep textual comprehension for language learners is developed better through initial collaboration […]
Read moreEthnography controversy
What are the academic, methodological and ethical boundaries of ethnography? An interesting discussion has developed in regard to ethnographic research by Alice Goffman, an American scholar and daughter of Erving Goffman. Alice Goffman. (2014). On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. Article in the Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Conflict-Over-Sociologists/230883/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en Author’s accuracy, reliability and ethical stance […]
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