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The ‘Good’ Interculturalist Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow: Everyday Life-Theory-Research-Policy-Practice 0  http://ialic.international/conference-2018/ 0 29-31 August, 2018   University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland     See the details of Call for papers: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/ialic2018/call-for-papers-2/ Deadline: 15th March 2018 Decisions about the submitted proposals: 1st April 2018 Registration: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/ialic2018/registration/   Key questions: What concepts and methodologies are/have been used in discussing the ‘good’ interculturalist? Who is/has been influential in developing […]

The 18th IALIC conference will be held at the University of Helsinki and hosted by Prof. Fred Dervin from 29-31 August 2018. As usual there will be a special issue of Language and Intercultural Communication for publication of papers. The call for papers will be available soon on the IALIC website http://ialic.international/ We have recently launched our new website so do take […]

Interculturality in a New Global World: China’s One Belt, One Road as an Example University of Helsinki, Finland http://www.helsinkisummerschool.fi/courses/course/interculturality-new-global-world-chinas-one-belt-one-road-example/ Dates: 7.8.-23.8.2018 Target students Bachelor’s and Master’s levels. Students who have an interest in intercultural studies, intercultural / multicultural education and social justice, but also sociology and anthropology. No background in intercultural studies or Chinese language needed. Synopsis The world is […]

Congratulations to Volha on her successful VIVA. Well done! December 1st. 2017

  The use of film to enhance learning in the ESOL classroom Cormac Conway Cormac Conway is an ESOL Curriculum Manager at Manchester Adult Education Service. He has been an ESOL teacher since 1999, working in Scotland, Italy, Ireland and Manchester. He has a Dip TESOL and MA. He is more excited about the new Star Wars movie than a […]

Congratulations to Fida whose VIVA was a great success. Well done!  3rd November 2017

    Nottingham Trent University is looking forward to welcoming you to a PIM on Intercultural Communication 18th November 2017 £100 This PIM is jointly held with the BAAL Intercultural Communication SIG. In today’s globalised, yet increasingly polarised world, communication skills, cultural knowledge, cultural sensitivity and open-mindedness towards others would seem to be more important than ever. The task of […]

M. Wagner, D. Conlon Perugini & M. Byram (eds) Teaching Intercultural Competence across the Age Range: from Theory to Practice. Multilingual Matters October 2017. https://channelviewpublications.wordpress.com/2017/10/19/the-importance-of-intercultural-understanding-in-todays-world/

A paper Khwan and Richard are co-writing has been accepted for a conference in Thailand in 2018. Digital Literacy in English Language Learning and Teaching is the 2018 conference theme. Tantiniranat, S. and Fay, R. Teaching English for intercultural communication in Thai higher education: some challenges and possibilities. A paper to be presented at the 38th Thailand TESOL International Conference […]

This is an invitation to submit a paper to the special issue on: Flipped Learning in Foreign Language Environment, edited by Dr. Adrian Leis and Dr. Jeffery Mehring of the International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT) Introduction Flipped learning has received much attention and has proven to be a successful approach to teaching over a wide range of subjects […]

Language is all around us. We use it every day to express our thoughts, feelings and opinions, to communicate with other people, to convince them of our views, make them feel better or worse, manipulate them or even insult them. Language is a powerful tool which helps us perform our actions. There are more than 6,000 different languages spoken in […]

  On this achievement, we wish you hearty congratulations, great success and happiness. Well done!                 

For those interested in the area of English as Lingua Franca, there is a new book worth reading. See details bellow. The Routledge Handbook of English as Lingua Franca, by Jennifer Jenkins, Will Baker and Martin Dewey.

TRANSNATIONAL EDUCATION EXPORTS AND IMPORTS THE SEARCH FOR THE CHINESE EL DORADO Eds. Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki), Xiangyun Du (Aalborg University) & Zhao Ke (SHUFE) Deadline for abstracts: 20th November 2017 Volume to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in the Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective (Eds. Dervin/Du) It has become a truism to say that […]