This 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 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 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 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, […]
Read moreJust a reminder for all of you who have an upcoming viva that we have a wealth of past experiences, links and ideas that may help you in the ‘Examination (Thesis Viva /Panel/Annual Review)’ category. If you come across any useful links/articles etc. while preparing, please do add them to the blog. That would be very helpful for all of […]
Read moreAn interesting article by S. Pinker, Why Academics Stink at Writing. http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Academics-Writing-Stinks/148989/ Magda
Read moreThe Centre of Language Education Research at Aston (CLERA) invites you to its Fourth Annual Distinguished Lecture, which will take place on Thursday 13th November. This year’s distinguished visitor is Professor Jennifer Jenkins from the University of Southampton. The lecture entitled ‘Diverse Englishes, intercultural communication, and ‘international’ universities’ will start at 16.00 followed by a drinks reception at 17.30. For […]
Read moreEdited by Fred Dervin and Karen Risager Routledge This volume focuses on advances in research methodology in an interdisciplinary field framed by discourses of identity and interculturality. It includes a range of qualitative studies: studies of interaction, narrative studies, conversation analysis, ethnographic studies, postcolonial studies and critical discourse studies, and emphasizes the role of discourse and power in all studies […]
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