New open-access online journal: Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics

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The launch of Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics (EJAL : ISSN 2149-1135) is now online and as an open-access online journal its inaugural issue is fully accessible at http://www.ejal.eu. The opening issue includes the following articles: Characteristics of speaker models for Japanese university students Kenta Yamanouchi The role of noticing in developing intercultural communicative competence Ardith J. Meier The role of […]

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CultNet 2015 plan

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Tentative title: “Teaching (inter?)cultural aspects in English classrooms: some insights from my fieldwork at a Thai university” Recently encouraged (or indirectly forced) by Richard to come up with a presentation title for the CultNet meeting which will be held in Durham in April as Min has posted earlier. At this stage when my mind is concentrating on (how to start) […]

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Call for chapters: Interculturality in Chinese language Education

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Call for Chapters   Interculturality in Chinese Language Education   Eds. Tinghe Jin (IOE, London, UK) & Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki, Finland)     Deadline for abstracts: 1st May 2015   Volume to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in the Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective (Eds. Dervin/Du)         “A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort […]

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Adrian Holliday – Revisiting appropriate methodology, BANA, TESEP and ‘contexts’

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Adrian Holliday gave a guest lecture at the Centre for Applied Linguistics, Warwick University last week in which he revisited  his ‘original thinking about appropriate methodology and social context, and re-examine[d] the concepts of BANA, TESEP and context’ arguing for a need to look at the wider picture. Click here for the video of his talk and here for the […]

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SRHE funded project – Academic identity and religious identity: cognitive dissonance in students’ higher education learning and assessment

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  Alex Baratta and Paul Smith (University of Manchester) and Lydia Reid (Nottingham Trent University) have been awarded funding from the Society for Research into Higher Education (a grant of £5000) to investigate the interplay of two identities – academic and religious – in students who profess a faith. We wish to investigate how students manage these two identities, especially […]

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Cultnet Meeting at Durham University

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Recently, I have applied to share my research ideas to the Cultnet meeting at Durham University. The topic I will talk about is: Mindfulness in Intercultural Communication: A Visual Narrative Exploration of Postgraduates’ Experiences at a UK University My research is about ‘mindfulness in intercultural communication’ at an internationalised university setting in the UK. I use visual narrative to explore students’ understanding […]

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New book: Teachers as mediators in the Foreign Language classroom

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Michelle Kohler ‘Teachers as mediators in the foreign language classroom’  is a study of how ‘foreign language teachers in Australian schools … mediate intercultural language teaching in their teaching practice’ . It is a research study which also contains teaching materials from the 3 participating teachers.(Published by Mutlilingual Matters in the LICE series)

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Reflections on being federated to a large, interdisciplinary research project

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One of the huge advantages of being a GTRA (apart from the fact that you actually get paid for being a student), is that you get an opportunity to experience and learn from a variety of teaching and research situations. For me, the most exciting opportunity by far to this point is being involved with a large, interdisciplinary research project. I […]

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