Dear Colleague, Routledge is delighted to announce that from 2015 we will be publishing the journal Curriculum Inquiry, on behalf of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Curriculum Inquiry is dedicated to the study of educational research, theory, and practice. This leading international journal brings together the work of influential scholars and researchers from a variety of academic fields […]
Read morePlenary talk: Critical Language Testing and English Lingua Franca. How can one help the other? by Elana Shohamy Plenary talk: Towards a Transformative ELF-Aware Education: Challenges and Opportunities for Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education by Nicos Sifakis ELF and the pragmatics of language variation by Henry Widdowson Colloquium: ELF Aware Classroom Practices and Teaching Materials: Issues and New Perspectives in ELT […]
Read moreIn her debut novel, Michell finds a compelling protagonist in a South Korean interpreter who struggles to belong Clare Clark Saturday 4 October 2014 The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/04/the-defections-hannah-michell-review-lost-souls-seoul An interesting looking novel about meaning and language and identity. A light non-academic read for all those interested in intercultural issues?
Read moreDigital DIversities (New volume, Post-Intercultural Communication and Education Book Series)Volume 4 of my book series called “Post-intercultural Education and Communication” with Cambridge Scholars is now out: Digital DiversitiesSocial Media and Intercultural ExperienceEditor(s):Garry Robson, Malgorzata Zacharahttp://www.cambridgescholars.com/digital-diversities Digital Diversities is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study of the social, social-psychological, philosophical and political ramifications of the ‘digital turn’ in human affairs. Focusing, in particular, […]
Read moreThere is an IATEFL webinar coming tomorrow Saturday 27 September 2014 at 15:00 BST. Susan Hillyard, a teacher, HOD, director, speaker, workshop facilitator, consultant, researcher and on-line tutor with extensive international experience, is going to give a talk on ‘Challenging ELT: Challenging Methodology to Reach Challenging English Language Learners’. The webinar is free for both IATEFL members and non-members. Check the link for more […]
Read moreEmily and Parneet are in the hot seat this coming Tuesday (30th Sept). D Couns Psych researchers (rather than TESOL/LTE) but narrativists to the core 🙂 And then coming in dates across the autumn: Paul Breen, Achilleas, Eljee, Lou and Helen. Best wishes to them all.
Read moreThe full text of my new book chapter The Role of Early Learning Experience in Shaping Teacher Cognition and Technology Use is now accessible via the Durham University depository (here). The thinking behind this chapter started on the day of my viva three years ago when Gary Motteram (my internal examiner then) suggested exploring teachers’ early experiences and technology use as a new area […]
Read moreKelly posted this on the PGRS MIE Facebook page, so a lot of you have probably seen it, or at least seen the link. I have just watched it and found it very interesting, but also personally challenging. One of Richard’s 4 ‘C’s for the PhD – which all of you who have the privilege of having him as one of […]
Read moreI think this issue is relevant to most of us because taking notes on electronic devices is very common in lectures, seminars, conferences, etc. I also developed the habit of taking notes on my iPad, but I have decided to take notes by hand after reading this piece written by David Gooblar on Chronicle Vitae: Last spring, a new study […]
Read moreHi everyone. It has been a year since I started my PhD studies. Looking back at my first year experience, I could not see as to which part of it that many may have described it as the honeymoon year J. It was more like an a–maze-ing journey of being and becoming; an interweaving process from a practitioner to a […]
Read moreMy colleague Adrian Holliday (who many of you will know from his writings) is looking for doctoral students willing to respond to the following questions: 1. What impact has doing a PhD had on your cultural identity? (‘Cultural’ may be interpreted in a number of ways and you are of course at liberty to contest the term or define it […]
Read morehttps://www.uea.ac.uk/documents/595200/0/CARE+working+paper.pdf/ece70461-a98a-4f93-b744-77e505919f9e Robinson-Pant, A. and Wolf, A. (Eds.) (2014). “Researching across languages and cultures: a collection of reflective pieces providing an unusual insight into how doctoral students engage in multilingual and intercultural research”. (CARE Working Paper No 1). Norwich: University of East Anglia. Containing: — Robinson-Pant, A. and Wolf A. (2014) ‘An Introduction’ (pp.3-8) … — Shi, P. (2014). ‘Language, theory […]
Read moreThe first issue of Language and Sociocultural Theory is published Equinox is pleased to announce the publication of the first issue of the new journal Language and Sociocultural Theory. This international journal is devoted to the study of language from the perspective of Vygotskian sociocultural theory. The editor is James P. Lantolf, The Pennsylvania State University. There will be two issues per volume […]
Read moreDear Colleagues At the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick we have recently launched a new citation app (Mastercite). We really hope this app will be of help not only to our own students, but also to those at other universities as they start to learn and practise to reference correctly. Our aim is that when students […]
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