Special Topic Issue of Language Teaching Research: Call for Papers “Intercultural citizenship in the (foreign) language classroom” Guest editors Melina Porto, Stephanie Ann Houghton and Michael Byram http://ltr.sagepub.com/site/includefiles/CFP-International.pdf
Read moreBuilding on our earlier work (on Ladino and intercultural identity and ‘competence’), am pleased to say that the following contribution by Leah Davcheva and myself has now been accepted for the ‘Identities, Relationships and Languages in Migration’ conference taking place 25th – 27th September, 2015 in Cagliari, Sardinia. “Living Intercultural Lives: Identity Performance and Zones of Interculturality” The Sephardim in […]
Read moreIt is now less than a week before the 2015 ‘Bring it back home’ event. Last year, eight of our community (2 staff, 5 current students and one postdoc) presented a conference paper they had given in some location around the world during that year. Achilleas was one of those students, and joined us via Skype. This year we are going bigger and […]
Read moreI fly to Brussels later today for the 3rd Symposium of our AHRC-funded “Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the Body, Law and the State” project. On this occasion, rather than giving a formal paper, I will form part of an 8-strong team of performers (including our colleague Mariam Attia) presenting a piece, collaboratively explored and then wonderfully ‘scriptified’ […]
Read moreI am a long-standing member of IALIC and contributor at its conferences but this time, for the Beijing conference, I decided to go for something a bit different: Ethnomusicological bridges and social engagement through klezmer: interdisciplinary dialogues and intercultural performances Richard Fay, Ros Hawley and Elinor Sherwood (Music Department, The University of Manchester) ABSTRACT Whilst the concept of ‘culture’ has […]
Read moreHi all, I have just submitted an abstract for the 5th International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence which will be held in January 21-24, 2016 Tucson, Arizona. (See Susan’s post for more detail). Thank you Richard for looking and helping with my abstract. And here is my abstract: ICC through ELF: Challenges and Possibilities for Thai […]
Read moreMorning All, My paper has been accepted for the 11th Annual Conference of the BAAL Language Learning and Teaching SIG. The conference is in Edinburgh from 2-3 July 2015 (link below). Many thanks Susan Dawson for posting the call for papers of this conference 😉 http://www.morayhouse.me/Research/Conferences/BAALSIG2015/ My presentation is under Lingua Franca Perspectives and Multilingualism theme. Please find below my abstract: The Introduction of English as […]
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Hi All Khwan and I were invited to contribute in a round table/ symposium in the University of Cordoba, in the warm Cordoba, Spain (June 3rd). The Symposium ‘Intercultural Education and Bilingual Education in the 21st Century’ is a part of ‘The International Conference of Education and Development Cooperation’ (link below): http://www.uco.es/educacionycooperacion/index.php?sec=home&lang=en Khwan’s paper was titled: The potential role of English language […]
Read moreAs led by Ross White (Glasgow), and together with colleagues from Uganda (Rosco Kasujja and Ponsiano Okalo), our following conference paper has been accepted. In it, we use our experiences (for the AHRC project, Case Study 1) in Lira in northern Uganda (see the researching-multilingually-at-borders.com website for more on this case study) as a stimulus to think more about appropriate […]
Read moreAt Cultnet this year I presented a paper entitled “The goal is to teach English, not London is the city with diverse culture. No.” : Some Implications for ELF Teacher Education. It was my second Cultnet and as Min and Susan have said, attending and presenting at the Cultnet is beneficial in many ways. For me, I used the opportunities […]
Read moreHi LANTERNERS! An abstract by Richard and me has been accepted for the 2015 BAAL IC SIG (The British Association of Applied Linguistic- Intercultural Communication Special Interest Group) Annual Conference in Sheffield. It will be my second time for the BAAL IC SIG, but the first co-presentation with Richard (aka the boss!). I am looking forward to it 🙂 Please […]
Read moreIATEFL is being held in Manchester this year, and even though I didn’t feel I had anything very concrete to say as I was in the middle of my data collection when I wrote the abstract, it seemed too good an opportunity to miss, so I submitted one away. Volha also submitted one which was accepted for the Research SIG day. […]
Read moreHi Everyone, I just submitted my abstract for the 11th Annual Conference of the BAAL-Language Learning and Teaching SIG. Thank you Susan Dawson for posting the conference call for papers in this blog 🙂 The title of my abstract is ‘The Introduction of English as a Medium of Instruction and its Reversal: Language Planning Insights from Multilingual Indonesia’. Fingers crossed […]
Read moreHi all. I’ve just submitted an abstract to the 12TH UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE CONFERENCE ON APPLIED LINGUISTICS (ELIA) conference which will be held in Seville, Spain, July 1-3, 2015 (please see Susan’s earlier post). My abstract for this conference is the longest one I used to submit because there are some requirements which I’m not very familiar with i.e. proposal […]
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