I have just got back from a few days at this year’s IATEFL conference in Harrogate. Perhaps I’ll blog about the conference itself sometime, but what I’d like to try and write down now is the essence of what for me was a very interesting series of conversations. They started in the very elegant surroundings of Betty’s tearooms (Harrogate tea, […]
Read moreBAAL Abstract accepted! My abstract has been accepted for the 2014 Annual BAAL IC SIG (British Association for Applied Linguistics, Intercultural Communication Special Interest Group). The conference will be held at the Moray House School of Education, the University of Edinburg during May 22nd-23 2014. I feel grateful to Richard for his time, thoughts and advice on how to write […]
Read moreCultNet 2014 My symposium contribution – entitled “The Challenges and Possibilities of Investigating English Language Teaching from an Intercultural Perspective” – has been accepted for the 2014 CultNet meeting hosted by Durham University from April 25th – 27th 2014. CultNet, originally established by Professor Michael Byram, a leading figure in the fields of intercultural communication/education and foreign language education, is […]
Read moreFollowing on (three years later!) from the LTE researcher conference “From here to there and back again” which took place in 2011, we are exploring the possibility of running something similar this year. The idea is that all researchers (students and supervisors) involved in our community who have given a seminar or conference paper they would like to share, could […]
Read moreThe above question was posted on the Oxford University Press English language teaching global blog This reply was circulated via the BALEAP mailing list. Any comments? “[Stephen Krashen] did a tour of Saudi Arabia a few weeks ago, and gave three training sessions at our university. He repeated these things (listed in order of what I remember and not giving […]
Read moreI read an article in the Metro today about a guy who has learnt a whole load of languages by travelling around the world, landing in a country and starting to chat to people – in other words, total immersion. He has now written a book based on his blog called ‘Fluent in 3 months’. I’m not sure how he […]
Read moreThis is a question I have been asking myself over the last couple of days as I started my pilot study. I am doing classroom-based research which means that I am researching my own learners. I’m using normal pedagogic activities to collect my data, so I’m not interviewing students or running focus groups or anything like that, I’m just doing […]
Read moreAt least that’s the best explanation I can think of to account for why a piece that I authored now appears in Social Science Space, a content aggregator run by SAGE. I am sure you would take my word for it, but here’s a link anyway: Fake papers are not the real problem in science . Rather unfortunately, the theme they […]
Read more20% off Teaching English Spelling English spelling – often a bit of a challenge for native speakers as well as learners of English! Help is at hand, with Teaching English Spelling by Ruth Shemesh and Sheila Waller, from theCambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers series. With a wealth of activities for practising common spelling patterns in English, each unit concentrating on a particular sound […]
Read moreAfter going through my review panel, I am thinking that it’s time for me to push myself more to develop my academic writing skill and also the skill to express my ideas to the academic community. Therefore, I ventured to start writing for publications. Here is the abstract which I co-write with Richard which we submitted for the forthcoming edition […]
Read moreI wanted to highlight this website, especially for all those of us at the beginning of this PhD process. It has some very helpful, accessible articles. I particularly liked this one on Meanings of Theory. It seemed to link very well with what we were talking about in Data Analysis last week, especially in relation to Rob’s theoretical framework. I have […]
Read moreYou probably know that there is an undergraduate programme called “English Language for Education” at the University of Manchester. It is formerly known as BA (Hons) Language, Literacy and Communication. The programme has a Facebook page and Twitter account. We try to post interesting content related to education and English language every day. Please follow and/or like it! Thank you […]
Read moreI have recently come across two interesting pieces, the second being a response to the first. 1. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/opinion/sunday/kristof-professors-we-need-you.html?_r=1 2. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/02/why-is-academic-writing-so-academic.html Is academic writing “knotty and strange, remote and insular, technical and specialized, forbidding and clannish” as Rothman puts it, and has academia “become that way, too”? Are academics irrelevant, stuck in “a culture that glorifies arcane unintelligibility while disdaining impact and audience”, […]
Read moreOn the 22nd of February, I presented a talk at the Qatar TESOL conference, Promoting a Culture of Reading (21-22 Feb, 2014, College of the North Atlantic, Doha, Qatar), entitled It’s long, it’s hard, it’s boring: Student Voices on Reading. In my presentation I aimed to approach the issue of reading as an academic skill and a cultural activity from […]
Read moreRather than what I have learnt through the feedback, I would like to reflect on two mental notes I made to myself while actually writing the assignment – and I only did one, so it shouldn’t have been that strenuous a task really. There were moments though when it felt as if I was climbing Everest – the bit near […]
Read more
You must be logged in to post a comment.