Tanya’s thesis submission — yay!
Tanya submitted yesterday and her viva is provisionally set for June 12th. Another significant step in the life of one of our community. As I celebrate this achievement, I am mindful of those following hot on her heels (Achilleas, Eljee, Lou, Helen, Parneet, Emily) and looking forward to celebrating the next steps in their doctoral journeys too.
Read moreLife after the doctorate
Hi all, I haven’t been on here lately as a result of lots of things happening with regards to work and study, but while browsing I came across the post from 2011 about life after the doctorate. I’m not quite there yet but hopefully I can see some spark of completion on the horizon – having scheduled a few weeks […]
Read moreDate for the ‘Bring it back home’ conference
We have a tentative date for our mini in-house conference: Wednesday 25th June. Just to remind you that the aim of the day is for those of us who have given conference presentations somewhere this year to share them with the rest of the LTE family. I know that both Richard and Juup have contributions, as well as Khwan, Fitri, […]
Read moreNew book: Reflexivity in Language and Intercultural Education
Reflexivity in Language and Intercultural Education: Rethinking Multilingualism and Interculturality edited by Julie S. Byrd Clark & Fred Dervin (2014) (with contributions from several LEF members) The Table of Contents: Introduction Julie S. Byrd Clark and Fred Dervin 1. The Process of Becoming Reflexive and Intercultural: Navigating Study Abroad and Reentry Experience Jane Jackson 2. “Or, just it’s my fault right?”: Language Socialization through Reflexive Language Writing Feedback Jérémie […]
Read moreElf on the road … and researching multilingualism
Picking up on Khwan’s recent CultNet reflections, my contribution there was a joint talk with Prue Holmes on some cultural and intercultural aspects of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), a theme we’ll be developing further at both the ELF 7 pre-conference in Athens next week: http://www.erasmus.gr/microsites/1014/pre-conference-event and then at the BAAL IC-SIG event in Edinburgh towards the end of […]
Read moreMy first CultNet experience
This blog post has two parts: the first is about my CultNet experience and the second is about how I plan my presentations. My first CultNet seminar (hosted by Durham University) was a very enriching experience. I joined the CultNet mailing list last year but I didn’t join the 2013 Seminar because I didn’t know what I could talk about […]
Read moreCall for journal papers: Success and Failure in Languages for Specific Purposes
Recherche et Pratiques pédagogiques en langues de spécialité – Cahiers de l’APLIUT,vol. XXXIV N° 2 What does the term “success” mean in the field of LSP (Languages for Specific Purposes)? What do we mean by “failure”? If the concepts of success and failure seem to be interdependent, are they mutually exclusive? Is failure a necessary step on the route to success? And […]
Read moreResearch Papers in Language Teaching and Learning – Special Issue on "The evolution of CALL and current research in new media"
Vol. 5 of Research Papers in Language Teaching and Learning is now published. You can find it here: http://rpltl.eap.gr/ > Current Issue, or, directly, here: http://rpltl.eap.gr/current-issue/table-of-contents. This is a Special Issue on “The evolution of CALL and current research in new media”, guest-edited by Vasilia Kourtis?Kazoullis and Kosmas Vlachos. It hosts reports on the implementation of many different facets of ICTs and new media, such […]
Read more(Unsuccessful) Conference Abstract Proposal
“Potential Role and Contribution of Counselling Psychology to the Care of Street-Connected Children and Young People” Parneet Chahal & Richard Fay (University of Manchester) Abstract: This paper is based on a recently-completed, multilingually undertaken, counselling psychology study exploring the narrativised meanings made by young people in India regarding their street-connected experiences. In this paper, we briefly report the study and its […]
Read moreConference presentations: the basics
Perhaps the following posts are of some use, with the conference season coming up and all… How to present a conference paper Engaging with feedback Feedback and comments are, of course, very welcome.
Read moreTracing dynamics of intentions in Greek ELT
It seems that Juup and I will be presenting papers in this year’s BAAL Language Learning and Teaching SIG conference. Here’s a copy of my abstract…
Read moreEthical musings
I have just got back from a few days at this year’s IATEFL conference in Harrogate. Perhaps I’ll blog about the conference itself sometime, but what I’d like to try and write down now is the essence of what for me was a very interesting series of conversations. They started in the very elegant surroundings of Betty’s tearooms (Harrogate tea, […]
Read moreBAAL 2014 Abstract accepted!
BAAL Abstract accepted! My abstract has been accepted for the 2014 Annual BAAL IC SIG (British Association for Applied Linguistics, Intercultural Communication Special Interest Group). The conference will be held at the Moray House School of Education, the University of Edinburg during May 22nd-23 2014. I feel grateful to Richard for his time, thoughts and advice on how to write […]
Read moreCultNet 2014
CultNet 2014 My symposium contribution – entitled “The Challenges and Possibilities of Investigating English Language Teaching from an Intercultural Perspective” – has been accepted for the 2014 CultNet meeting hosted by Durham University from April 25th – 27th 2014. CultNet, originally established by Professor Michael Byram, a leading figure in the fields of intercultural communication/education and foreign language education, is […]
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