Many 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) […]
Read moreContextualising Narrative Inquiry: Developing Methodlogical Approaches for Local Context Edited by Sheila Trahar Narrative inquiry is growing in popularity as a research methodology in the social sciences, medicine and the humanities. In narrative inquiry, the transparency of interactions between researcher and research participants, together with rich, contextual descriptions, help to shape and structure research texts rendering them engaging and readable. […]
Read moreCultural issues in address terms in translation by Jing Mei HAN With the incoming globalization, an increasing number of peoples have come to realize we have to know more about one another. To begin the communications, some native speakers of English may find it difficult to understand some basics such as the address terms in another culture. Thus knowledge about […]
Read moreCall for chapters Abstracts by 15th Dec. 2014 Demystifying Critical Thinking in Multilingual and Intercultural Education Edited by Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki, Finland) & Julie Byrd Clark (Western University, Canada) To be published by Info Age Publishing in 2016 BOOK SERIES Contemporary Language Education http://www.infoagepub.com/index.php?id=11&s=s0017 Following a very successful volume on reflexivity in multilingual and intercultural language education (Routledge, […]
Read moreJust a reminder for all of you who have an upcoming viva that we have a wealth of past experiences, links and ideas that may help you in the ‘Examination (Thesis Viva /Panel/Annual Review)’ category. If you come across any useful links/articles etc. while preparing, please do add them to the blog. That would be very helpful for all of […]
Read moreAn interesting article by S. Pinker, Why Academics Stink at Writing. http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Academics-Writing-Stinks/148989/ Magda
Read moreThe Centre of Language Education Research at Aston (CLERA) invites you to its Fourth Annual Distinguished Lecture, which will take place on Thursday 13th November. This year’s distinguished visitor is Professor Jennifer Jenkins from the University of Southampton. The lecture entitled ‘Diverse Englishes, intercultural communication, and ‘international’ universities’ will start at 16.00 followed by a drinks reception at 17.30. For […]
Read moreA friend of mine passed her viva on Monday. She told me the 40 questions below were very useful as she was preparing for the day. I thought I would share them with you, especially since several members of the Community will be having their vivas soon. http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/ResearchEssentials/?p=156
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Open Access Week is an annual event that aims to raise awareness of Open Access as a new form of disseminating research output. This year, it takes place from 20th to 26th October. To mark the occasion, I have cross-posted some information about Open Access from my blog, which I hope may be of use to members of the community. […]
Read moreAfter spending almost seven weeks in the field, it’s time to take stock of my fieldwork operation. I’m now being at the university in the north of Thailand where I used to work for, so I have found it convenient for me in many ways. In terms of the participant recruitment, I feel grateful that many of my former colleagues […]
Read moreEdited by Fred Dervin and Karen Risager Routledge This volume focuses on advances in research methodology in an interdisciplinary field framed by discourses of identity and interculturality. It includes a range of qualitative studies: studies of interaction, narrative studies, conversation analysis, ethnographic studies, postcolonial studies and critical discourse studies, and emphasizes the role of discourse and power in all studies […]
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