The conference run by the American Association of Applied Linguistics will take place in Orlando, Florida from 9-12 April, 2016. There was a lot of talk about both this and the TESOL Convention at IATEFL this year, and I got the impression that this one attracts mainly researchers whereas the TESOL convention attracts mainly practitioners. Anyhow here is some information and […]
Read moreNext year’s TESOL convention will be held from 5 – 8 April 2016 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA and is being hosted by Maryland TESOL. The deadline for proposals is next week, Monday June 1st. Below are details of the theme, and you can get more information from their website and call for participation. 2016 Convention Theme: Beyond Borders TESOL has changed greatly over its […]
Read moreBelow are details of a TESOL research award. I note that you need to be a member of TESOL to apply, but it looks like an interesting proposition for anyone at the stage of wanting to take their research interests further. Here is some brief information from the website about the TESOL International Association Research Agenda and the award: TESOL research may […]
Read moreI co-presented a paper with Richard (aka “the boss”) at the BAAL IC SIG (British Association for Applied Linguistics: Intercultural Communication Special Interest Group) Annual Seminar which was held at the University of Sheffield from May 14th to 15th 2015. (Please see the original post and Richard’s reflection here: http://lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/?p=7291). Our paper’s title was “ASEAN policy documents as an articulation […]
Read moreMorning All, My paper has been accepted for the 11th Annual Conference of the BAAL Language Learning and Teaching SIG. The conference is in Edinburgh from 2-3 July 2015 (link below). Many thanks Susan Dawson for posting the call for papers of this conference 😉 http://www.morayhouse.me/Research/Conferences/BAALSIG2015/ My presentation is under Lingua Franca Perspectives and Multilingualism theme. Please find below my abstract: The Introduction of English as […]
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Hi All Khwan and I were invited to contribute in a round table/ symposium in the University of Cordoba, in the warm Cordoba, Spain (June 3rd). The Symposium ‘Intercultural Education and Bilingual Education in the 21st Century’ is a part of ‘The International Conference of Education and Development Cooperation’ (link below): http://www.uco.es/educacionycooperacion/index.php?sec=home&lang=en Khwan’s paper was titled: The potential role of English language […]
Read moreHi everyone. Last week I had the opportunity to share some aspects of my research at the Narrative workshop. The workshop served as a platform for me to share my methodological thinking and receive constructive feedbacks from other doctoral students. Here are some highlights of my experience. My presentation was divided into two parts: The first part consists of some theoretical […]
Read moreOn 12 June 2015, Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication, Birkbeck College, University of London will be hosting a one day conference as a finale to our year-long series of events to celebrate 50 years of Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck. The conference will consist of talks by former and current colleagues and a Roundtable discussion where eminent scholars will […]
Read moreThe School of Education, University of Leicester are seeking to expand our team of experienced postgraduate tutors and markers for our large, well established distance Masters programme. Preference will be given to applicants with previous experience of working in distance, online education and with a broad range of expertise in Applied Linguistics and TESOL. For further information about the programme, please […]
Read morePlease note that I first published this post on my blog on 4th May, 2015. As a PhD student, my day normally starts with a cup of coffee and creating a daily to-do list, and it continues with writing and reading in front of the computer. Last week, at Manchester GRADschool, I stepped out of my PhD routine and had […]
Read moreAs led by Ross White (Glasgow), and together with colleagues from Uganda (Rosco Kasujja and Ponsiano Okalo), our following conference paper has been accepted. In it, we use our experiences (for the AHRC project, Case Study 1) in Lira in northern Uganda (see the researching-multilingually-at-borders.com website for more on this case study) as a stimulus to think more about appropriate […]
Read moreWhere has the time flown since my last effort (October 2013) towards a newsletter? What on earth has kept me so busy that I left this Newsletter to one side? Back then Fitri and Khwan were heading for Panel in January 2014 (successfully completed) with Susan and Volha following that summer (successfully completed). Back then, too, I was hoping to […]
Read moreThe new issue of Englishes in Practice is now available. In his article Academic Rigour in Criticising English as a Lingua Franca, Tomokazu Ishikawa of Southampton’s Centre for Global Englishes responds to recent publications by Joseph Sung-Yul and Lionel Wee, John O’Regan and Suresh Canagarajah. http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/eip.2015.2.issue-2/eip-2015-0002/eip-2015-0002.xml Englishes in Practice is the working papers of the Centre for Global Englishes, University […]
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It’s been an eventful year to say the least! Not only did I submit my thesis and passed my viva but I also got a new job! *cue happy dance* I think this was THE biggest post-PhD fear that I’ve been harbouring for a long time. The “What to do after the PhD?” kind of question. Being an international student […]
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