Graham Stanley’s Language Learning with Technology wins HRH The Duke of Edinburgh ESU English Language Book Award 2013 Happy New Year! It’s got off to a good start for us here at Cambridge – we are very proud and pleased to announce yet another award-winner in our invaluable Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers series! Graham Stanley’s Language Learning with Technology […]
Read moreHere is the link to the article that Richard sent out Holliday_2013_The politics of ethics in diverse cultural settings- colonising the centre stage
Read moreI 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following 23 box files, which were catalogued in the context of a British Council research project grant, in 2010-11: Unpublished ELT project evaluation reports 1-4: Four box files of […]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 […]
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