Category: Miscellaneous news etc

Hello, everyone! Hope you’re all doing well. It’s the first post after a long break of LANTERN. I’d like to introduce the very practical and inspiring textbook by Caprice and Irina on intercultural competence for college and university students. It provides us with a very updated view and pedagogical implication based on their abundant cross-cultural working experience in the globalized and […]

In this post I would like to introduce our newest member Stella.  She has a bachelor degree is English education in China, and a Master degree is translation studies from Macquarie University, Australia. She has 11 years of English teaching as lecturer in a university in China and she is now a PhD student at Manchester. In a short conversation we […]

Congratulations to Olga on her successful viva! We are proud of you! xx

Congratulations to Basemah and Lada for their successful vivas! We are proud of you ladies!    

A big congratulation to Nahielly who just passed her viva with a minor correction!

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (IF): Multilingualism, Social Identities, Intercultural Relations and Communication For more information Click here  

International Conference Another Brick in the Wall: Rethinking Education Amsterdam, November 11-15, 2019   Another Brick in the Wall: Transforming Education focuses on sharing insights pertaining to the fields of Intercultural Education, Multicultural Education, Human Rights Education, Citizenship Education, and Education for Democracy and Global Education, when it comes to addressing present day diversity issues. The international conference will allow teachers, […]

Congratulations to Min, Bona, Magda, Kris and Loretta on their successful VIVAS! We are proud of you.

By Willem de Goei, Lancaster University Ghana, Accra, Ghana Applying the framework of space and scale (Blommaert, Collins, & Slembrouk, 2005) to my use of English as a lingua franca (ELF), I show in this self-reflective account that the effective use of our linguistic repertoire is highly dependent on context and space and that each particular space brings with it […]

  Cutting Edges A Conference on Culture, Language and International Education Research ‘Building Bridges in Uncertain Times’   Friday 28th and Saturday 29th June 2019   Culture, Language and International Education Research Group & School of Language Studies & Applied Linguistics   Canterbury Christ Church University  Canterbury, England      Invited Speakers:   Cristina Ros i Solé, Goldsmiths, University of London Alex Ding, University of Leeds […]

The Nineteenth IALIC Conference: TRANSLATING CULTURES. THE CULTURE OF TRANSLATING 21-23 November, 2019 University Of Valencia, Valencia, Spain   CALL FOR PAPERS (PDF)   The 2019 Conference of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) will be held at the Universitat de València (Spain), 20-22 November, 2019, with the aim of providing a forum for research in the field. The conference theme, Translating Cultures, […]

The following text is a summary of an ongoing research project conducted by members of the LANTERN community (to mention some: Gary Motteram, Diane Slaouti, Susan Dawson, Felix Kwihangana) Project: Resilience and language teacher development in challenging contexts: Supporting teachers through social media This collaborative action research project aims to explore promising practices in making use of widely available mobile […]

Hi All This Wed afternoon, at MMU (as hosted by an alumnus of ours, Rob Drummond), there will be the first PhD and staff event involving a visiting speaker (Richard Fay): Venue: Geoffrey Manton Building, Room GM302 4.30-6.00pm — PhD researcher presentations 6.00-7.00pm — Visiting speaker (RF) RF ABSTRACT “Researching multilingually: researcher development and praxis” In research guidance outside language-foregrounded […]

This chat has been cancelled apologies for any inconvenience. “Can we really make a difference when researching and teaching the intercultural?”  A talk by Dr. Fred Dervin from the University of Helsinki at the University of Manchester, Simon Building Theater D Thursday, 6 December 2018 (2.00-3.00pm).