Category: Miscellaneous news etc

As some of you might be aware, November is Academic Writing Month, so I thought that it might be useful to share some articles I’ve stumbled upon over time on the topic of scholarly writing. The basics Starting with the most mundane of topics, here’s some advice on improving typing skills. While on the topic of typing, the University of […]

A paper written by one of my colleagues from Indonesia, Flora Debora Floris, and published in ELTWorldOnline.com. Hope you find it useful 🙂 http://blog.nus.edu.sg/eltwo/2013/10/30/advocating-world-englishes-an-interview-with-dr-mario-saraceni/#more-3779

Dear All, Earlier this afternoon (30/10/2012) We (Khwan, Diana, and I) contributed to the MIE PGR Social Network by sharing our experiences and reflections of the first year of our PhD study. It was a really exciting and fruitful session, both for us and (I belief) for the audience and was a really good way to learn from one another. […]

Finally! After much to-and-fro with various uncontactable reviewers (so the editor tells me), I finally have a journal article: Harvey, L. (2013). EAP teachers’ perceptions of learner motivation. International Student Experience Journal 1 (2). It’s an online journal friendly to postgrads and (of course) international students, and would (normally) have a fairly quick turnaround time, so I’d recommend it for […]

I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this but I think it’s interesting for researchers in the field of English Language teaching. At the minute I’m going over my literature review and doing a lot of reading on the latest literature in the field of English for Academic Purposes. As some of you may know I’m […]

I suppose most of us have considerable first-hand experience of the two situations I’m about to describe – pruning our academic work and leaving possessions behind us as we travel the world whether for study or work. These days as I’m busy trimming the early chapters of my thesis, I’m reminded of the latter experience when I was teaching overseas and moving between […]

Hi everyone, I would like to share a recent experience with you all which was incredibly beneficial for me and can hopefully contribute to someone else’s development. Recently I attended a conference/workshop session in the University of Helsinki in Finland which had as its central themes teacher identity, teacher education, and English Language teaching. The keynote speaker was Ken Hyland […]

Dear All (ongoing doctoral students) The new Semester is now underway so it’s time to note that: 1. you should all have set up your first supervision sessions and ideally have an agreed sense (if not an actually diarised agreement) of the regular supervisions to follow (fortnightly for full-timers, monthly for part-timers). 2. new starters (on the PhD Education) should […]

Dr Stephen Rogers form Manchester Institute of Education (MIE), The University of Manchester, has won the Bera Dissertation Award 2013 for his thesis An Investigation Into New Labour Education Policy: Personalisation, Young People, Schools and Modernity. Stephen retired after 30 years in various roles in education, including that of headteacher and director of a national education charity. After completing his […]

The British Academy’s aim in making these awards is to offer opportunities for outstanding early career researchers to strengthen their experience of research and teaching in a university environment which will develop their curriculum vitae and improve their prospects of obtaining permanent lecturing posts by the end of the Fellowship. The primary emphasis is on completion of a significant piece […]

We are pleased to announce the release of our interactive course for teachers, Changing Englishes, available via the British Council/BBC TeachingEnglish website at http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/top-stories/changing-englishes-interactive-course-teachers or directly at: http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/changing-englishes/changing-englishes.aspx The course is designed for experienced and trainee teachers of English, as well as teacher trainers. It will particularly benefit teachers who are open to new ways of thinking about their subject […]

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) is annoucing the following fellowships: Research Fellowship Program for International Students & Researchers Target Group: PhD students and young post-doctoral researchers who want to conduct research in Turkey. APPLICATION PERIOD DATES I. Period : 17 March 2014 – 21 April 2014     II. Period : 22 September 2014 – 31 October 2014   […]

Dear All, Just a line to let you know that Adrian Holliday has just launched his new blog. You can access his posts here (for a full view of each post please click on the date).    

I was going to write up an account of my experience at the i-mean conference on identities I went to in Bristol in April. Rather than provide a full account, though, as a result of this conference I had a brain itch that has only just been scratched, and I thought I would share that instead. This starts with one […]