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Dr Christina Gkonou – University of Essex  Time: Tuesday May 2nd; Start at 3pm – it may last up to 90 minutes. Location: Ellen Wilkinson Building, Room B4.3 Anxious learners, caring teachers and the emotional labour of teaching This talk will centre on the concepts of language learner anxiety, caring, and emotional labour. To show the links among these constructs, […]

“DEVELOPING EDUCATORS FOR THE DIGITAL AGE A FRAMEWORK FOR CAPTURING KNOWLEDGE IN ACTION” Paul Breen Synopsis Evaluating skills and knowledge capture lies at the cutting edge of contemporary higher education where there is a drive towards increasing evaluation of classroom performance and use of digital technologies in pedagogy. Developing Educators for the Digital Age is a book that provides a narrative […]

  Manchester Roundtable on the role of emotions and agency in teaching and beyond 23 – 25 May 2018   Sociocultural approaches to human development and mind have become a prominent theoretical perspective in teaching, and have also served as a framework for empirical studies on how teachers act, make decisions, and design learning spaces that lead to effective practice. However, it […]

Colleagues, I am delighted to announce details of the 2018 CARN conference, to be held in Manchester UK, 25th – 27th October 2018.  More details can be found on the conference website: https://carnconference.wordpress.com/The call for papers is now open. We invite you to submit proposals, by 14th May, via this link: https://carnconference.wordpress.com/call-for-contributions/The theme for this year’s conference isVoicing and Valuing: Daring and DoingSubthemes:Action […]

“Dear colleagues,I am happy to announce that vol. 9 of Research Papers in LanguageTeaching and Learning is now published. You can find it here:http://rpltl.eap.gr/  >  Current Issue, or, directly, here:http://rpltl.eap.gr/current-issue/volume-9-february-2018/volume-9-february-2018.This issue explores a wide variety of concerns. There are five paperson issues involving different aspects of applying online technology inEnglish language teaching, two papers on differentiated instruction,two papers on different aspects […]

The ‘Good’ Interculturalist Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow: Everyday Life-Theory-Research-Policy-Practice 0  http://ialic.international/conference-2018/ 0 29-31 August, 2018   University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland     See the details of Call for papers: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/ialic2018/call-for-papers-2/ Deadline: 15th March 2018 Decisions about the submitted proposals: 1st April 2018 Registration: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/ialic2018/registration/   Key questions: What concepts and methodologies are/have been used in discussing the ‘good’ interculturalist? Who is/has been influential in developing […]

The 18th IALIC conference will be held at the University of Helsinki and hosted by Prof. Fred Dervin from 29-31 August 2018. As usual there will be a special issue of Language and Intercultural Communication for publication of papers. The call for papers will be available soon on the IALIC website http://ialic.international/ We have recently launched our new website so do take […]

Interculturality in a New Global World: China’s One Belt, One Road as an Example University of Helsinki, Finland http://www.helsinkisummerschool.fi/courses/course/interculturality-new-global-world-chinas-one-belt-one-road-example/ Dates: 7.8.-23.8.2018 Target students Bachelor’s and Master’s levels. Students who have an interest in intercultural studies, intercultural / multicultural education and social justice, but also sociology and anthropology. No background in intercultural studies or Chinese language needed. Synopsis The world is […]

Congratulations to Volha on her successful VIVA. Well done! December 1st. 2017

  The use of film to enhance learning in the ESOL classroom Cormac Conway Cormac Conway is an ESOL Curriculum Manager at Manchester Adult Education Service. He has been an ESOL teacher since 1999, working in Scotland, Italy, Ireland and Manchester. He has a Dip TESOL and MA. He is more excited about the new Star Wars movie than a […]

Congratulations to Fida whose VIVA was a great success. Well done!  3rd November 2017

    Nottingham Trent University is looking forward to welcoming you to a PIM on Intercultural Communication 18th November 2017 £100 This PIM is jointly held with the BAAL Intercultural Communication SIG. In today’s globalised, yet increasingly polarised world, communication skills, cultural knowledge, cultural sensitivity and open-mindedness towards others would seem to be more important than ever. The task of […]

M. Wagner, D. Conlon Perugini & M. Byram (eds) Teaching Intercultural Competence across the Age Range: from Theory to Practice. Multilingual Matters October 2017. https://channelviewpublications.wordpress.com/2017/10/19/the-importance-of-intercultural-understanding-in-todays-world/

A paper Khwan and Richard are co-writing has been accepted for a conference in Thailand in 2018. Digital Literacy in English Language Learning and Teaching is the 2018 conference theme. Tantiniranat, S. and Fay, R. Teaching English for intercultural communication in Thai higher education: some challenges and possibilities. A paper to be presented at the 38th Thailand TESOL International Conference […]