Paul Smith is submitting his thesis today and will be having his viva in early January; I wish him all the best in this next stage of his researcher journey! Magdalena De Stefani’s corrections are being submitted very soon; I wish her all the best with this final step. Important events for our doctoral community 🙂
Read moreI can’t believe it but I actually won this award! WAA! It’s for $800 USD to cover conference related costs. Considering I’m heading overseas next year for TESOL International Convention and English Language Expo 2013 every bit of funding helps. I was looking for any kind of external conference funding to help me get to TESOL 2013 and, upon a […]
Read moreDear all, It has been one month and two days of me being in Manchester but I feel that I have been here much longer. Loads of things happening and a lot more things to do. I would like to share a bit of my feeling and experience in my research trainings. Being in the research training modules gives me […]
Read moreHi All! I had my panel on 15th October and passed (yippeee) BUT with a lot of further work needed.The title of this post is due to my lack of patience in all things. Thus, one of my own problems with the panel was my desire to finish and run off as soon as possible…. Things that worked: – Speaking […]
Read moreMy proposal titled, “”Real” Teachers? – Visible ethnic minority native English speaking teachers,” has been accepted for the TESOL 2013 (http://www.tesol.org/convention2013) convention program scheduled for the 20-23 March 2013 in Dallas, Texas USA!!! It was really competative this year so I’m very thankful for getting a place! From their email they said “Being accepted is quite an accomplishment; the acceptance […]
Read moreThe Journal of Second Language Teaching and Research (JSLTR) is a new, open-access journal which hopes to provide a platform both for established and early-career researchers. JSLTR is engaged with building a community of practice (both online and offline) and supports debate and scholarship in second language teaching and research. Issue 2 is available here: www.uclan.ac.uk/jsltr
Read morehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/aug/19/thomas-kuhn-structure-scientific-revolutions?INTCMP=SRCH Thomas Kuhn: the man who changed the way the world looked at science Fifty years ago, a book by Thomas Kuhn altered the way we look at the philosophy behind science, as well as introducing the much abused phrase ‘paradigm shift’ …. John Naughton The Observer, Sunday 19 August 2012
Read moreWe would like to bring colleagues’ attention to a change to UK migration law. The British Government has decided to raise the level of English language and literacy required for British citizenship and settlement in the UK. This will have profound implications for migrants who are language and literacy learners. Under the current arrangements those with a level of English […]
Read moreIn no particular order, I will upload the contributions one by one as they are formulated by you in coming days: Eljee Javier – ”That restorying thingy” In my contribution, I want to facilitate a discussion exploring what it means to ‘restory a narrative’. It seems that, in different kinds of narrative-based research, there are different varieties of restorying. I […]
Read moreOn May 23rd, I had the privilege of attending the Researching Multilingually seminar that was organised by The University of Manchester, where I presented a brief talk about the various alternatives available for representing bilingual data in research output. In a nutshell, my argument was that there are many different considerations (intentionalities) that need to be taken into account when […]
Read moreAlthough I am not at the dissertation stage yet, I’ve read this article with interest and thought others might enjoy it, too. http://chronicle.com/article/My-Terrible-Horrible-No/131438/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en Magda
Read morePost-Panel reflections Experiencing education as a cultural other: Qatari students on an English preparatory course for US/UK universities I propose to undertake a study of Qatari students’ educational experiences on the English language course in an American-accredited institution, the Academic Bridge Program (ABP), Education City, Doha, Qatar, which prepares local students for entry into English-medium universities in Qatar, the US […]
Read morehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/may/07/56-up-its-like-having-another-family?INTCMP=SRCH ——– of interest to the narrativists amongst you? 56 Up: ‘It’s like having another family’ It began as a one-off look at how the class system defined the hopes and aspirations of British children. Now, almost half a century later, the Up series has evolved into one of the world’s great documentary projects. But how have these films affected […]
Read moreto Helen Hou (supervised by Diane) who has now passed her PhD and to Magda Rostron (supervised by Richard) who has now passed through the Panel process.
Read moreSee below for a message from Olwen about the latest recipients of these awards. The alert amongst yuo will note Miri’s name, but also I am also pleased to see Dimi (co-supervised by Zeynep, a member of the LTE team in some ways) and also Su (who has now started attending Narrative Natters, the fortnightly onsite discussion and support group […]
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