On the heels of our “Bring It Back Home 2015” conference (a great event!), here comes an interesting link sent to me by a former student, one clever Qatari man, who is studying Aerospace Engineering in the United States. This short video illustrates difficulties involved in “re-educating” the brain to think differently, outside its usual fixed paradigms. Yes, that’s hard […]
Read moreTyson Seburn has published an ebook aimed at teachers who teach Academic English, focussing particularly on academic reading skills. It seems to me that it would be useful for developing critical thinking too. Here is what Tyson says about his new materials: ARC is an intensive reading approach whose components work on the basis that deep textual comprehension for language learners is developed better through initial collaboration […]
Read moreWhat are the academic, methodological and ethical boundaries of ethnography? An interesting discussion has developed in regard to ethnographic research by Alice Goffman, an American scholar and daughter of Erving Goffman. Alice Goffman. (2014). On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. Article in the Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Conflict-Over-Sociologists/230883/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en Author’s accuracy, reliability and ethical stance […]
Read moreBuilding on our earlier work (on Ladino and intercultural identity and ‘competence’), am pleased to say that the following contribution by Leah Davcheva and myself has now been accepted for the ‘Identities, Relationships and Languages in Migration’ conference taking place 25th – 27th September, 2015 in Cagliari, Sardinia. “Living Intercultural Lives: Identity Performance and Zones of Interculturality” The Sephardim in […]
Read moreIt is now less than a week before the 2015 ‘Bring it back home’ event. Last year, eight of our community (2 staff, 5 current students and one postdoc) presented a conference paper they had given in some location around the world during that year. Achilleas was one of those students, and joined us via Skype. This year we are going bigger and […]
Read moreCritical Perspectives on Neoliberalism in Second/Foreign Language Education With guest editors Katie A. Bernstein, Emily A. Hellmich, Noah Katznelson, Jaran Shin, and Kimberly Vinall Accountability, competitiveness, efficiency, profit: While it is not surprising to hear these terms in corporate offices around the world, it is slightly alarming to hear these terms in reference to schools, teachers, and students. Second/foreign language […]
Read moreEnglish Today http://journals.cambridge.org/ENG Volume 31 / Issue 02 , June 2015, pp 2 – 64 Published Online on 28th May 2015 Contents
Read moreI fly to Brussels later today for the 3rd Symposium of our AHRC-funded “Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the Body, Law and the State” project. On this occasion, rather than giving a formal paper, I will form part of an 8-strong team of performers (including our colleague Mariam Attia) presenting a piece, collaboratively explored and then wonderfully ‘scriptified’ […]
Read moreI just got this in my inbox and thought it a good way of seeing what’s new in the world of RMs from Sage, who are strong in this area. Thought the book itself that is highlighted might be helpful for people getting into coding. Our new, interactive Research Methods catalogue is now available to browse online! Simply click on the catalogue […]
Read moreWord Length – Latest Faculty Guidance Students must not make requests for extensions to the thesis word limit justified on the basis of the student doing interdisciplinary research (and thus having to address literature and debates across disciplines), and/or doing qualitative methods. The use of both is common in the Humanities, and themselves not justification for an increase in word […]
Read moreLanguage Teaching Research announces a call for abstracts for a special topic issue on intercultural citizenship in the (foreign) language classroom. The issue will address empirical, conceptual, and theoretical concerns related to the development of critical cultural awareness, which is of special importance particularly in the field of English language education, considering the status of English as a global language […]
Read moreAn interesting article from the Inside Higher Ed website about the increasing use of English in universities worldwide. It would be interesting to hear comments from around the world on the issues raised in the article.
Read moreI am a long-standing member of IALIC and contributor at its conferences but this time, for the Beijing conference, I decided to go for something a bit different: Ethnomusicological bridges and social engagement through klezmer: interdisciplinary dialogues and intercultural performances Richard Fay, Ros Hawley and Elinor Sherwood (Music Department, The University of Manchester) ABSTRACT Whilst the concept of ‘culture’ has […]
Read moreAccording to the Council of Europe ‘Citizenship and human rights education is about learning to live together and respect each other. It is also about knowing and understanding your rights in order to play an active role in decisions that concern you’. Here is the link to a children’s version of the charter, which gives a (very) simplified overview of […]
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