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Tallks from ELF7: The 7th International Congress of English as a Lingua Franca held in Greece this September

05/10/2014 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

Plenary talk: Critical Language Testing and English Lingua Franca. How can one help the other? by Elana Shohamy Plenary talk: Towards a Transformative ELF-Aware Education: Challenges and Opportunities for Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education by Nicos Sifakis ELF and the pragmatics of language variation by Henry Widdowson Colloquium: ELF Aware Classroom Practices and Teaching Materials: Issues and New Perspectives in ELT […]

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Book review from The Guardian: The Defections by Hannah Michell– lost souls in Seoul

05/10/2014 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

In her debut novel, Michell finds a compelling protagonist in a South Korean interpreter who struggles to belong Clare Clark Saturday 4 October 2014 The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/04/the-defections-hannah-michell-review-lost-souls-seoul An interesting looking novel about meaning and language and identity. A light non-academic read for all those interested in intercultural issues?

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New Book: Digital Diversities (New volume, Post-Intercultural Communication and Education Book Series) by Fred Dervin

02/10/2014 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

Digital DIversities (New volume, Post-Intercultural Communication and Education Book Series)Volume 4 of my book series called “Post-intercultural Education and Communication” with Cambridge Scholars is now out: Digital DiversitiesSocial Media and Intercultural ExperienceEditor(s):Garry Robson, Malgorzata Zacharahttp://www.cambridgescholars.com/digital-diversities Digital Diversities is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study of the social, social-psychological, philosophical and political ramifications of the ‘digital turn’ in human affairs. Focusing, in particular, […]

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IATEFL Webinar Tomorrow: 'Challenging ELT: Challenging Methodology to Reach Challenging English Language Learners'

26/09/2014 Volha Arkhipenka Leave a comment

There is an IATEFL webinar coming tomorrow Saturday 27 September 2014 at 15:00 BST. Susan Hillyard, a teacher, HOD, director, speaker, workshop facilitator, consultant, researcher and on-line tutor with extensive international experience, is going to give a talk on ‘Challenging ELT: Challenging Methodology to Reach Challenging English Language Learners’. The webinar is free for both IATEFL members and non-members. Check the link for more […]

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Upcoming Viva

25/09/2014 Richard Fay 9 comments

Emily and Parneet are in the hot seat this coming Tuesday (30th Sept). D Couns Psych researchers (rather than TESOL/LTE) but narrativists to the core 🙂 And then coming in dates across the autumn: Paul Breen, Achilleas, Eljee, Lou and Helen. Best wishes to them all.

Examination (Thesis Viva /Panel/Annual Review )

How to stay sane through a PhD: get survival tips from fellow students

17/09/2014 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

An interesting blog post from ‘The Guardian’

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New chapter on teacher cognition

14/09/2014 Mariam Attia 8 comments

The full text of my new book chapter The Role of Early Learning Experience in Shaping Teacher Cognition and Technology Use is now accessible via the Durham University depository (here). The thinking behind this chapter started on the day of my viva three years ago when Gary Motteram (my internal examiner then) suggested exploring teachers’ early experiences and technology use as a new area […]

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A great presentation on the role of creativity in today's world

13/09/2014 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

Kelly posted this on the PGRS MIE Facebook page, so a lot of you have probably seen it, or at least seen the link. I have just watched it and found it very interesting, but also personally challenging. One of Richard’s 4 ‘C’s for the PhD – which all of you who have the privilege of having him as one of […]

Reflections in/on research(er) action

The Surprising Secret to Better Student Recall

12/09/2014 Duygu Candarli 3 comments

I think this issue is relevant to most of us because taking notes on electronic devices is very common in lectures, seminars, conferences, etc. I also developed the habit of taking notes on my iPad, but I have decided to take notes by hand after reading this piece written by David Gooblar on Chronicle Vitae: Last spring, a new study […]

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Reflections on the first year of my PhD study

03/09/2014 Rafidah Sahar 4 comments

Hi everyone. It has been a year since I started my PhD studies. Looking back at my first year experience, I could not see as to which part of it that many may have described it as the honeymoon year J. It was more like an a–maze-ing journey of being and becoming; an interweaving process from a practitioner to a […]

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Doctoral Study and Cultural Identity

25/08/2014 Richard Fay Leave a comment

My colleague Adrian Holliday (who many of you will know from his writings) is looking for doctoral students willing to respond to the following questions: 1. What impact has doing a PhD had on your cultural identity? (‘Cultural’ may be interpreted in a number of ways and you are of course at liberty to contest the term or define it […]

Doctoral students reflect on researching across languages and cultures

23/08/2014 Richard Fay One comment

https://www.uea.ac.uk/documents/595200/0/CARE+working+paper.pdf/ece70461-a98a-4f93-b744-77e505919f9e Robinson-Pant, A. and Wolf, A. (Eds.) (2014). “Researching across languages and cultures: a collection of reflective pieces providing an unusual insight into how doctoral students engage in multilingual and intercultural research”. (CARE Working Paper No 1). Norwich: University of East Anglia. Containing: — Robinson-Pant, A. and Wolf A. (2014) ‘An Introduction’ (pp.3-8) … — Shi, P. (2014). ‘Language, theory […]

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New Journal: Language and Sociocultural Theory

14/08/2014 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

The first issue of Language and Sociocultural Theory is published Equinox is pleased to announce the publication of the first issue of the new journal Language and Sociocultural Theory. This international journal is devoted to the study of language from the perspective of Vygotskian sociocultural theory. The editor is James P. Lantolf, The Pennsylvania State University. There will be two issues per volume […]

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New App to help with referencing and citations

14/08/2014 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

Dear Colleagues At the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick we have recently launched a new citation app (Mastercite). We really hope this app will be of help not only to our own students, but also to those at other universities as they start to learn and practise to reference correctly. Our aim is that when students […]

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New Journal: CALICO

14/08/2014 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

CALICO Journal is now being published by Equinox Publishing Ltd. We are pleased to announce that CALICO Journal, founded in 1983, will move to Equinox in 2015. CALICO is the official publication of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) and is devoted to the dissemination of information concerning the application of technology to language teaching and language learning. The journal is published online-only, is […]

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