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 Academia.edu allows you to upload and view scholarly papers for free.  You can join through Facebook or a Google+ account and then choose your academic research interests. This enables you to follow people with similar interests to you and to access a lot of free papers. It might be worth signing up for. Here is the link to a new […]

As some of you might be aware, November is Academic Writing Month, so I thought that it might be useful to share some articles I’ve stumbled upon over time on the topic of scholarly writing. The basics Starting with the most mundane of topics, here’s some advice on improving typing skills. While on the topic of typing, the University of […]

A paper written by one of my colleagues from Indonesia, Flora Debora Floris, and published in ELTWorldOnline.com. Hope you find it useful http://blog.nus.edu.sg/eltwo/2013/10/30/advocating-world-englishes-an-interview-with-dr-mario-saraceni/#more-3779

Dear All, Earlier this afternoon (30/10/2012) We (Khwan, Diana, and I) contributed to the MIE PGR Social Network by sharing our experiences and reflections of the first year of our PhD study. It was a really exciting and fruitful session, both for us and (I belief) for the audience and was a really good way to learn from one another. […]

Finally! After much to-and-fro with various uncontactable reviewers (so the editor tells me), I finally have a journal article: Harvey, L. (2013). EAP teachers’ perceptions of learner motivation. International Student Experience Journal 1 (2). It’s an online journal friendly to postgrads and (of course) international students, and would (normally) have a fairly quick turnaround time, so I’d recommend it for […]

I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this but I think it’s interesting for researchers in the field of English Language teaching. At the minute I’m going over my literature review and doing a lot of reading on the latest literature in the field of English for Academic Purposes. As some of you may know I’m […]

I suppose most of us have considerable first-hand experience of the two situations I’m about to describe – pruning our academic work and leaving possessions behind us as we travel the world whether for study or work. These days as I’m busy trimming the early chapters of my thesis, I’m reminded of the latter experience when I was teaching overseas and moving between […]

Hi everyone, I would like to share a recent experience with you all which was incredibly beneficial for me and can hopefully contribute to someone else’s development. Recently I attended a conference/workshop session in the University of Helsinki in Finland which had as its central themes teacher identity, teacher education, and English Language teaching. The keynote speaker was Ken Hyland […]

Dear All (ongoing doctoral students) The new Semester is now underway so it’s time to note that: 1. you should all have set up your first supervision sessions and ideally have an agreed sense (if not an actually diarised agreement) of the regular supervisions to follow (fortnightly for full-timers, monthly for part-timers). 2. new starters (on the PhD Education) should […]