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Andy Kirkpatrick on ‘English as a Lingua Franca in Asia: Suggestions for ELT/ELF Policy and Pedagogy’, Bath

28/05/2015 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

Andy Kirkpatrick, Visiting Professor in the Language and Educational Practices research cluster of the Department of Education, University of Bath, will give his first research seminar presentation at Bath on Tuesday 16th June. Title: English as a Lingua Franca in Asia: Suggestions for ELT/ELF Policy and Pedagogy Time: 2pm Place: CB 4.1, Chancellors’ Building, University of Bath main campus, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY Abstract: In this […]

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An abstract submitted for 2016!

26/05/2015 Sutraphorn Tantiniranat 3 comments

Hi 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 […]

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Indonesia: Exploring the improbable nation (Elizabeth Pisani, 2014)

25/05/2015 Richard Fay 2 comments

As part of a new resolution to learn more about the contexts of each (of my) doctoral researcher(s), I am now reading Pisani’s account of travelling around Indonesia in 2011-2012. As I do so, I am mindful of everything Fitri has told me about her professional and personal world over the years. And I am aware that I am responding […]

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Call for papers: AAAL conference 2016, Orlando

25/05/2015 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

The conference run by the American Association of Applied Linguistics will take place in Orlando, Florida from 9-12 April, 2016. There was a lot of talk about both this and the TESOL Convention at IATEFL this year, and I got the impression that this one attracts mainly researchers whereas the TESOL convention attracts mainly practitioners. Anyhow here is some information and […]

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Call for papers: TESOL Convention 2016, deadline June 1st

25/05/2015 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

Next year’s TESOL convention will be held from 5 – 8 April 2016 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA and is being hosted by Maryland TESOL. The deadline for proposals is next week, Monday June 1st. Below are details of the theme, and you can get more information from their website and call for participation. 2016 Convention Theme: Beyond Borders TESOL has changed greatly over its […]

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Call for research proposals: TESOL Research

24/05/2015 Susan Dawson 2 comments

Below are details of a TESOL research award. I note that you need to be a member of TESOL to apply, but it looks like an interesting proposition for anyone at the stage of wanting to take their research interests further. Here is some brief information from the website about the TESOL International Association Research Agenda and the award: TESOL research may […]

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BAAL IC SIG 2015 (Sheffield) reflections

18/05/2015 Sutraphorn Tantiniranat 4 comments

I co-presented a paper with Richard (aka “the boss”) at the BAAL IC SIG (British Association for Applied Linguistics: Intercultural Communication Special Interest Group) Annual Seminar which was held at the University of Sheffield from May 14th to 15th 2015. (Please see the original post and Richard’s reflection here: http://lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/?p=7291). Our paper’s title was “ASEAN policy documents as an articulation […]

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Paper Accepted for 2015 BAAL Language Learning and Teaching SIG Conference

18/05/2015 Siti Fitriyah Leave a comment

Morning 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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Presenting and Teaching in Universidad de Cordoba (Khwan and Fitri …. and Richard)

18/05/2015 Siti Fitriyah 5 comments

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 […]

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Presenting my First Narrative Thinking

14/05/2015 Rafidah Sahar 5 comments

Hi everyone. Last week I had the opportunity to share some aspects of my research at the Narrative workshop. The workshop served as a platform for me to share my methodological thinking and receive constructive feedbacks from other doctoral students. Here are some highlights of my experience. My presentation was divided into two parts: The first part consists of some theoretical […]

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Celebrating 50 years of Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck: Last event in the year

14/05/2015 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

On 12 June 2015, Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication, Birkbeck College, University of London will be hosting a one day conference as a finale to our year-long series of events to celebrate 50 years of Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck. The conference will consist of talks by former and current colleagues and a Roundtable discussion where eminent scholars will […]

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Job opportunity: Tutors/Markers required for Distance MA Applied Linguistics and TESOL

12/05/2015 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

The School of Education, University of Leicester are seeking to expand our team of experienced postgraduate tutors and markers for our large, well established distance Masters programme. Preference will be given to applicants with previous experience of working in distance, online education and with a broad range of expertise in Applied Linguistics and TESOL. For further information about the programme, please […]

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A humorous look at ‘writer’s block’

12/05/2015 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

Have a look at this and let us know what you think: Writer’s Block Does it resonate?

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Manchester GRADschool 2015

11/05/2015 Duygu Candarli 2 comments

Please note that I first published this post on my blog on 4th May, 2015. As a PhD student, my day normally starts with a cup of coffee and creating a daily to-do list, and it continues with writing and reading in front of the computer. Last week, at Manchester GRADschool, I stepped out of my PhD routine and had […]

RM-ly encouragement to branch out towards (appropriate methodology considerations in/for) Global Mental Health

10/05/2015 Richard Fay One comment

As 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 […]

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