I am delighted to have had my abstract entitled “Walking the Talk: Tensions between Analysis and Advocacy in Ethical Inquiry” accepted for the Tenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in Champaign-Urbana in May 2014. Whilst I am attempting to synthesize analysis and advocacy in my thesis, giving this paper allows me to play with the ‘partial, moral and political ways of knowing’ that my […]
Read moreNEW! An updated version of the Warwick ELT Archive catalogue (publ. December 2013) can be accessed via: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collect/elt_archive/catalogue The new edition of the catalogue includes details relating to documents in the following 23 box files, which were catalogued in the context of a British Council research project grant, in 2010-11: Unpublished ELT project evaluation reports 1-4: Four box files of […]
Read moreAsian EFL Journal has just published a special edition on CLIL in Asian contexts which we hope will be of interest to BAAL members.
Read moreImages of Others – an Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters through Visual Media and an Online Self-study course on the AIE for educators are now available at the updated Autobiography website: www.coe.int/lang-autobiography The Language Policy Unit and Unit for Intercultural Education and Exchanges are very grateful to the Autobiography authoring group for developing this complement to the original Autobiography; Leah Davcheva, Julia Ipgrave and Rachel […]
Read moreI’m adding this short note because I can’t find the joint post I wrote with Magdalena and Mariam (May 2013) about having our chapter proposals accepted for a forthcoming book on teacher identity. Cases on Teacher Identity, Diversity, and Cognition in Higher Education is a book edited by Paul Breen, to be published by IGI Global by the end of […]
Read moreIn the course of these two weeks I have taken (and have been trying to be) a small part in this research community in three main events. So I think it’s time for me to reflect my views on my participation and of course what I learn from them. The first event was when I took part as a participant […]
Read moreDear colleagues, A professor at Roskilde University in Denmark is writing a book for an international publisher on – critical analyses of books or manuals for language teaching – analyses of the cultural dimension – analyses of pluri- or multilinguism/culture If anybody has knowledge of papers, reviews, workshops or seminars treating this subject, please contact me or the author, Karen […]
Read moreWe are delighted to announce that the winners of The Modern Language Association’s 2011-2012 Kenneth W. Mildenberger prize are Susan M. Glass & Alison Mackey for The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition (November 2011). To celebrate this award we are offering you an exclusive *20% off when puchasing the title through the Routledge website. Just quote MLA13 at the checkout to take advantage of this discount. Paperback: £35.00/$55.95 Now £28.00/$44.76 […]
Read moreThe journal English Teaching: Practice and Critique has just published a special issue on the topic of ‘Language and Place’. There are several articles from around the globe that colleagues in TESOL/ELT might find interesting. http://edlinked.foe.waikato.ac.nz/research/journal/view.php?view=true&id=68&p=1
Read moreHere is another interesting article – this time about decreasing proficiency in English among the French. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/world/europe/english-proficiency-falters-among-french.html?ref=education&_r=0 English has become a major factor in determining economic competitiveness of people and countries, and is essential for academic and professional success in the globalised world. However, there are some stirrings of a backlash against teaching it too “aggressively”. For instance, Qatar has […]
Read moreBBC, 8 Nov 2013: PhD students set kebab challenge I have found this rather interesting: apparently, postgraduate students at Kashmir University have to pass a kebab-based test before receiving their final grades. It got me thinking, “What shall I bring to my viva? Bigos*? Pierogi? Herring and vodka?” 🙂 http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-24866275 * For the uninitiated, “bigos” is considered to be the […]
Read moreI want to share links to three different articles related to teaching I’ve come across recently (though one of them is not exactly a recent article :)). The first one is from the Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/We-Must-Prepare-PhD-Students/142893/. The main point of this piece is that post-graduate (or graduate in American edu-speak) programmes in the US pay little attention to […]
Read moreQ-TESOL proposal accepted My proposal for the 2014 Qatar TESOL Conference (21-22 Feb) has been accepted. The conference is focused on the theme of Promoting a Culture of Reading and will take place at the College of the North Atlantic-Qatar, Doha, Qatar. Title: It’s long, it’s hard, it’s boring: Student Voices on Reading As English teachers, we constantly bemoan our […]
Read moreBy Betsy R Rymes This new book offers a timely and lively appraisal of the concept of communicative repertoires, resources we use to express who we are when in dialogue with others. Each chapter describes and illustrates the communicative resources humans deploy daily, but rarely think about – not only the multiple languages we use, but how we dress or gesture, […]
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