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Written by an experienced and interdisciplinary team of contributors from the renowned department of applied linguistics at Birkbeck College, University of London, this brand new textbook is a comprehensive survey of the theories, methods, and key findings within applied linguistics. Through a problem-solving approach, it aims to enable students to identify every-day language and communication issues, and to draw on […]

Wednesday 19 Feb, 14:00 – 16:00, Martin Harris, John Casken Theatre Much of the public debate in the period since the appearance of the Finch Report in July 2012 has concerned issues that relate to publishing in journals. However, in disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences, anything from one to two thirds of the published output appears in the […]

This stimulating volume brings together classic strands of critical sociolinguistic work on how immigrants are disadvantaged in social gatekeeping institutions and the contemporary sociolinguistics of globalization. Taking a broad view of ‘migrants’ as sociolinguistically mobile citizens, the authors mobilize an impressive array of ideological, political and economic frameworks to explore the continuing power of institutions to confer and withhold status […]

Here is the link to the powerpoint that Adrian Holliday used in his talk last week. Adrian Holliday’s powerpoint 14/11/13 I was very much looking forward to this, but somehow got the week wrong. I’d love to hear your thoughts on it if you went along. It looks as if I missed a good one!

This might be of interest to some. English proficiency falters among French      

The LSE Public Policy group have produced a handbook that focuses on understanding and maximising impact, and have made it free for download in .pdf format. Some topics include: What shapes the citing of academic publications? Tracking citations, including new-internet based tracking systems Key measures of academic influence Strategies for getting better cited External (i.e., non-academic) research impacts You can […]

A quick post to say that, after a presentation and panel interview yesterday, I’ve been offered a Lecturer in TESOL post at University of Leeds. I’m reeling somewhat from the shock of making my first academic application and actually getting the job, but looking forward to it all the same – it’s a strong research community and they seem to […]

 Academia.edu allows you to upload and view scholarly papers for free.  You can join through Facebook or a Google+ account and then choose your academic research interests. This enables you to follow people with similar interests to you and to access a lot of free papers. It might be worth signing up for. Here is the link to a new […]

As some of you might be aware, November is Academic Writing Month, so I thought that it might be useful to share some articles I’ve stumbled upon over time on the topic of scholarly writing. The basics Starting with the most mundane of topics, here’s some advice on improving typing skills. While on the topic of typing, the University of […]

A paper written by one of my colleagues from Indonesia, Flora Debora Floris, and published in ELTWorldOnline.com. Hope you find it useful 🙂 http://blog.nus.edu.sg/eltwo/2013/10/30/advocating-world-englishes-an-interview-with-dr-mario-saraceni/#more-3779

Dear All, Earlier this afternoon (30/10/2012) We (Khwan, Diana, and I) contributed to the MIE PGR Social Network by sharing our experiences and reflections of the first year of our PhD study. It was a really exciting and fruitful session, both for us and (I belief) for the audience and was a really good way to learn from one another. […]