I’m going home next week for my fieldwork and will be there for the whole semester (four months). It has been quite a while since I went through my panel review in January this year. So, what had I done in the past SEVEN months? You might have seen in my earlier posts that I had worked on the ethical […]
Read moreEnjoy free online access to our International and Intercultural Communication collection until the end of August. This year we are offering free access to articles from our Communication Studies journals exploring a different theme each month. Explore this month’s collection on International and Intercultural Communication with free online access until the end of August. This collection provides an important input to the latest research on […]
Read moreBy Anne Marie Devlin This book investigates the study abroad profile of non-native speaker teachers of English, exploring the impact of studying abroad on the acquisition of sociopragmatic variation patterns and the relationship between such patterns and identity development. Introducing the concept of ‘loci of learning’, the book provides a compelling insight into the relationship between the duration of study […]
Read moreI found the experiences in this BBC news article quite interesting and would love to know what you all think. I do remember coming back to the UK after having lived in Spain for 4 years, going to a job interview with BT and really struggling to find some simple words in English – ‘vandal’ for example. Have any of […]
Read moreThanks to Sarah Darley-Nolan for bringing this very interesting BBC radio 4 programme to my notice. I thought it would be good to share it here. Informed consent Facebook has been under fire for running a controversial ’emotion manipulation’ study on 689,003 Facebook users. The experiment, to find out whether emotions were contagious on the social network, involved minor changes […]
Read moreHere is the link to an interesting article in the Guardian newspaper Lack of languages stifles Brits and Americans and the Final report, action and plan from America.
Read moreThanks to all who presented yesterday and everybody who came. It all added up to a great day! We suggested yesterday that all presentations were uploaded. Either send them to me and I can upload them or you can upload them here yourself. Richard’s Presentation Khwan’s Presentation Magda’s Presentation Mariam’s Presentation Achilleas’ Presentation Susan’s Presentation Fitris Presentation
Read moreI have tried to write this post several times already and am still unsure of what to try and convey about my panel experience. Perhaps the first thing is to say how glad I am it is behind me. It seemed to consume far too much of my life and my thoughts for several weeks before. Maybe that is normal, […]
Read moreMy abstract I submitted for a CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) specialist conference in Venice (28-30 August 2014) has been accepted. So I will hopefully be in Venice on the dates to learn more about CLIL, to share what I have learnt about CLIL, and to enjoy some warm summer sunshine (hopefully as Diana Busra, my friend, told me […]
Read moreAfter a one-month wait finally we (me and Richard) received the good news that the abstract we submitted for ELTWO Special Issues – CLIL in ELT has been accepted. This is still the preliminary step though as we have to still prepare the full manuscript (fingers crossed that things will go very well 🙂 ). Here is the abstract and […]
Read moreSusan, Olga, Bona, Duygu and Dylan are all being reviewed this week (Tues?) in terms of their proposal for their main studies. I’m sure we’re all rooting for you in the background. In due course, it’ll be great to hear your stories of being panelled, but for now, “break a leg” as they say 🙂
Read moreWe are pleased to let you know that Volume 16 of English Language Teacher Education and Development (Spring 2014) is now available on-line at: www.elted.net? This volume, edited by Gerard Sharpling and Gosia Sky, contains the following articles: · “Seeing” second language pre-service teacher learning through the conceptual metaphor of teaching and learning in teaching practicum dialogic blogs – Ekaterina Arshavskaya · The authenticity continuum: Empowering international […]
Read moreHaving just received the feedback for the 2nd semester’s two assignments, the module of research training is officially completed now. I had enjoyed the experience of developing myself to be increasingly creative, curious and confident in academic exploration. Here I would like to quickly share some of the reflections about my PhD journey in the first year. Before everything began: 3 […]
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