Category: Miscellaneous news etc

By now, I think all of you will know that Julian will be retiring from the LTE group from the end of September. For his ‘take’ on this, see Edgeblog #18 . More, much more, can and will not doubt be said on this theme, but for now I just want to wish him well in all that comes next.

http://thethesiswhisperer.wordpress.com/about/ The Thesis Whisperer is a ‘newspaper’ dedicated to the topic of doing a thesis. Newspapers need more than one journalist so we are looking for collaborators! Would you like to write for the Whisperer? Here’s what we want to do: We want to be concise. PhD students have to do a lot of reading so no posts will be […]

I was wondering if people might weigh in on this question that’s puzzling me. I was recently reading a PhD thesis awarded by a Greek university. Let’s say that the title was something like, ‘Teaching English as a Second Language in Manchester from 1917 to 1967‘. The bulk of the thesis focuses on historical aspects of TESOL, as it contains […]

The latest issue of Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching (Volume 5, Issue 2, 2011) is a special issue, edited by Turid Trebbi, which brings together papers from the 10th Nordic Conference on Language Learner Autonomy in the Foreign Language Classroom (2009, Bergen, Norway). The Table of Contents is accessible here: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rill20/5/2 The papers included are as follows: Reinforcing the […]

After lots and lots of procrastination, I finally have a workable version of my webpage online: https://sites.google.com/site/achkostoulas/. I expect that I will eventually populate it with abstracts, papers and presentations that are already scattered across the web, and I may be creating versions in other languages as well. But I am reasonably happy with it for the time being. For the […]

sociopedia.isa ‘Living Social Science’ – a new concept — An online database for “state-of-the-art” entries in Sociology sociopedia.isa is a new concept in the production and dissemination of knowledge. It combines the best of two worlds: the opportunities the internet offers for rapid publication and the scientific quality guaranteed by thorough and imaginative editing and peer review. While experienced editors […]

Achilleas Kostoulas in his neat piece “English as a Lingua Franca and Methodological Tension: Attitudes and Practices at a Language School in Greece” considers the case of a language school in Greece… Thus wrote the editor of in esse, where my article appears. One does feel rather nice about oneself today… Achilleas

International Studies in Higher Education   The Future University – Coming soon! Ideas and Possibilities Edited by Ronald Barnett The Future University explores new avenues opening up to universities and tackles fundamental issues facing their development. Contributors with interdisciplinary and international perspectives imagine ways to frame the university’s future. They consider the history of the university, its current status as […]

From the Chronicle of Higher Education Most-Popular Education-Technology Articles of 2010 January 3, 2011, 5:14 pm We thought we’d begin a new year of Wired Campus with a quick look back at the biggest tech stories of 2010, as voted by you. Items concerning Facebook, iPads, and cheating ranked high in page views. Here are the top 10 headlines from […]