This 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.
Read moreDid you know that this year’s Oxford Dictionary word of the year is actually an emoji? Read the article to find out more. Anything in this for the interculturally inclined members of our community?
Read moreJohn Dewey’s “Democracy and Education” 100 Years On: Past, Present, and Future Relevance September 28 – October 1 2016 Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge “Democracy and Education” argues that democracy is a necessary way of living together to protect the individual and maintain social equity. The book’s publication in 1916 was designed to promote a philosophy of education to […]
Read moreA proposal to contribute in a book chapter by Richard and I have been accepted. The chapter will be in a volume edited by Nicos Sifakis and Natasha Tsantila (and we were informed that Professor Henry Widdowson, Professor Barbara Seidlhofer and Professor Suresh Canagarajah have agreed to contribute chapters in this volume as well!) The tentative title of the book is “ELF […]
Read moreA Greek colleague of Richard, Dina, is looking for EFL teachers to complete a survey on how competent they feel about teaching students with dyslexia and professional training needs in this area. Here’s the link to the questionnaire if you would like to take part and help Dina out. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DysTEFLCompetenceandNeedsAnalysisQuestionnaire
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Please see below for details of this FREE half-day participatory Knowledge Exchange event: Numerous projects across Glasgow (and further afield) are working in Languages and their interconnection with the broad areas of Refugee and Migration Research. We hope to create a space where over the course of the event we build up wide ranging overview of the research landscape in Languages, […]
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