Traditionally, New Year is the time to look back at the happenings and achievements of the past 12 months and also look forward to the coming year and set goals and plans, often accompanied by resolutions. I’m not really one for resolutions – I never keep them anyway and my overarching goal this next year, at least in academic terms, is to […]
Read moreAcross the divide in Northern Ireland: A Catholic and a Protestant girl swap school uniforms in a fine short film produced as part of a project to teach children about the Troubles. Link to article and film: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/dec/14/across-divide-northern-ireland-film?CMP=share_btn_link
Read moreI have just received an email from the editor informing that my paper titled ‘Indonesian English-Medium Instruction: Controversies behind its reversal’ has been accepted to be included in IATEFL Conference Selections 2014. Thank you very much Richard for your guidance and for lending me IATEFL Selection 2007 to help me prepare the paper (I still keep the book btw) *Feeling excited […]
Read more‘Internationalisation’ is a key issue impacting on higher education today, but what is actually meant by this term and how does it relate to the notion of ‘global citizenship’, which also features prominently on the higher education agenda? How does the promotion of foreign language learning and intercultural communication help inform the pursuit of internationalisation? And, as the twenty-first century […]
Read moreHuge congratulations to Lou Harvey on her Ai pass yesterday afternoon. Really pleased for you!
Read moreHosted by the UCL Institute of Education, University College London 5:30 pm, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 Rm 731/736, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H OAL The talk will explore the relationship between Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE) and Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety (FLCA) in the FL classroom (Dewaele & MacIntyre, 2014). Participants were 1746 current FL learners from around the world. The […]
Read moreGENDER – POWER – HIERARCHY: CRITICAL ISSUES IN INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS Adopting a concept of intercultural training in which practical communication plays the central role means “focussing less on broad constructs like ‘culture’ and more on the everyday concrete actions through which culture is produced”.1 At the heart of such training is the interculturally appropriate use of language, in our case […]
Read moreI’m very pleased that my proposal for a paper has been accepted for presentation at the Liberal Arts International Conference (LAIC) at Texas A&M University in Qatar (Feb 2015). According to the acceptance notification, “the conference committee received over 200 abstracts and proposals, and (…) had a very competitive 29% acceptance rate”. Conference theme: LOOKING FORWAD, LOOKING BACK: Transnational Perspectives on Globalisation My […]
Read moreAn interesting paper on what makes an inspiring teacher, based on research done in China and Indonesia. You can access it here.
Read moreThe seventeenth webinar in the IATEFL webinar series will take place on Saturday 29 November 2014 at 15.00 GMT. The webinar will be presented by Fiona Dunlop, who will be talking about ‘How to access CPD’. Fiona will be looking at the issue of continuing professional development and the opportunities available to busy professionals. She will give the participants tips […]
Read moreMany congratulations to Achilleas on passing his viva today with an Aii. Well done! I still remember the day when Julian Edge told me about a new PhD student joining our group – called ‘Achilleas’. Since then, I had the pleasure of attending several of his presentations, and reading many of his blog posts. It was great to follow Achilleas’ doctoral work over the years, and I […]
Read moreSpecial issue of the journal Frontiers of Education focused on Chinese Students and Scholars in the Global Community: Challenges of Integration together with a series of articles exploring academic interactions in the contexts of Australia, Denmark, Finland, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Singapore. We invite you to read our articles and take advantage of the free trial access until Dec 7th 2014. Feel […]
Read moreA big congratulations to Paul Breen on passing his viva on his birthday today with very very minor corrections. The examiners were impressed by his performance as he managed to answer all their (challenging) questions. Well done! 🙂 All best wishes to our fellow Doctors-to-be: Achilleas, Eljee, Lou and Helen. Mariam
Read moreRichard writes: As many of you know, as prompted by a seminar by Adrian Holliday (based on his 1992 article) and sessions by former colleague Mike Beaumont, the major revelation from my own MA studies (back in the day) concerned appropriate methodology for TESOL, a very current issue then (before Holliday’s seminal publication on this theme was published in 1994) […]
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