This book is a collection of Gregory Bateson’s short works. It ‘propose a new way of thinking about ideas and about those aggregates of ideas which I call “minds.” This way of thinking I call the “ecology of mind,” or the ecology of ideas. It is a science which does not yet exist as an organized body of theory or knowledge‘…
Read moreThis is the 2nd GlobELT Conference (GlobELT: An international conference on teaching and learning English as an additional language (GlobELT 2016 Conference) in Antalya, Turkey on 14-17 April 2016.) For further information, visit their website at www.globeltconference.com Deadline for abstract submission is January 4, 2016. Credentials The conference is organised under the supervision of scholars from Hacettepe University (Turkey), ELT Department in collaboration with INTESOL Turkey and Informascope. […]
Read moreThis post looks at the implications of choosing different titles for your article. It also quotes some rather sobering statistics: of the 50 million or so journal articles that are estimated to be circulating out there, most are never cited.
Read moreMin has sent me information for a very interesting (free!) course that is being led by Dr Amanda Ravetz and Dr Myna Trustram, Manchester School of Art, MMU. It is a series of four day workshops looking at the writing experience using art, drama and even bookmaking! To me it sounds like a very novel approach to thinking about writing and […]
Read moreThis is a research assistant post (part-time, fixed-term) at the University of Stirling to help us on the project the British Council funded project entitled “Master’s programmes in ELT: A survey of UK provision and student experiences”. The closing date is 13 January 2016, and interviews are scheduled for 21 January 2016. Click here for more details.
Read moreGary posted this link in the MA TESOL Facebook page, and I though it would be good to make it available here too. It’s for educaloxy.com and seems to advertise posts all over the world – teaching and academic. I’ll also add it to the Links tab above so that it is easily available.
Read moreSo, with many thanks to Susan (organiser-in-chief), Paul and Alex, and Khwan, Elisa and Fitri (our speakers), to Peter (technological support), we have made a good start on this community-building, research-in-progress sharing, LANTERN profile-raising endeavour – thank you one and all as well as to those who have supported the events with attendance and questions and discussion afterwards – it […]
Read moreIn this volume edited by Prue Holmes and Fred Dervin, there is a chapter with my long-standing Greek colleagues Nicos Sifakis and Vally Lytra: “Interculturalities of English as a lingua franca: international communication and multicultural awareness in the Greek context”. This seeks to bring to ELF teaching a combination of an outward/ international-looking EIL/EIC (English as an International Language/ English […]
Read moreThis is the 9th Global Meeting of a Cultures, Traditions, Societies Project. The conference will be held from Monday 18th July – Wednesday 20th July 2016, Mansfield College, Oxford. There is an impressive and wide-ranging list of topics that are included in the conference theme. Interculturalism stands at the interface between the individual, local groups, societies and cultures. These compete, conflict, co-exist and trigger […]
Read moreThere are a final few places available for the Linguistic Ethnography data workshops (15-16 January, in Leeds, UK). The fee is only £20 for ECRs and free to current PhDs, and the final deadline is 14 December. Please see the call details below. You are warmly invited to join fellow PhD students and ECRs to explore different perspectives on and approaches to […]
Read moreEl 4 de Noviembre asistí al taller denominado “Encuentros Etnográficos” en la Universidad de Southampton. En esta conferencia, algunos ponentes (profesores, autores de libros, etc.) hablaron sobre la importancia de las estancias en el extranjero para los estudiantes de lenguas modernas. Se hablo también sobre sus beneficios y los resultados obtenidos al colaborar entre universidades. De hecho dos ex-alumnas presentaron el […]
Read moreHere is the video of Paul and Alex’s talk. And also the Q&A session. Note that this part is only available to university staff and students.
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