Intersectionality and class ethnicity, race and gender in sociolinguistics research: Bloomsbury Applied Linguistics Seminar Here is the link to a presentation and PowerPoint given by David Block at Birkbeck University yesterday. It seems to be to do with how race, gender and social class interact together in language practices.
Read moreDear 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. […]
Read moreFinally! After much to-and-fro with various uncontactable reviewers (so the editor tells me), I finally have a journal article: Harvey, L. (2013). EAP teachers’ perceptions of learner motivation. International Student Experience Journal 1 (2). It’s an online journal friendly to postgrads and (of course) international students, and would (normally) have a fairly quick turnaround time, so I’d recommend it for […]
Read moreHaving benefitted so much from all your posts on experiences of various kinds, I thought I should share one of my own. A couple of weeks ago I went to a conference in Poland entitled ‘Classroom-oriented research: reconciling theory and practice’. My main reason for going was not the great line up of plenary speakers, or the chance to visit […]
Read moreThis blog post has been prompted by Open Access 2013, which began on Monday (21st October) and will run until 27th October. What I aim to do in the paragraphs that follow is describe what Open Access publication is, discuss some salient advantages and concerns, and provide readers with resources which I have found useful. It is by no means an […]
Read moreI’m not sure if this is the right place to post this but I think it’s interesting for researchers in the field of English Language teaching. At the minute I’m going over my literature review and doing a lot of reading on the latest literature in the field of English for Academic Purposes. As some of you may know I’m […]
Read moreI suppose most of us have considerable first-hand experience of the two situations I’m about to describe – pruning our academic work and leaving possessions behind us as we travel the world whether for study or work. These days as I’m busy trimming the early chapters of my thesis, I’m reminded of the latter experience when I was teaching overseas and moving between […]
Read moreI joined the poster competition as a part of Methods Fair 2013 on Wednesday, 9th October 2013 and won the second place! I felt thankful for everyone who stopped by, read my poster, asked me questions and voted for me (this included my hubby and myself too). 🙂 The poster presented the provisional findings of my pilot study titled “English […]
Read moreIt’s now the end of Week 3 of the new semester and everyone new who is coming has now come I think. The semester is underway, researcher development plans have been/are being made, studies have started/resumed, supervisions are filling our diaries, Panel preparations are underway, and, best of all, we have the first successful viva of the year – Sophia […]
Read moreHi everyone, I would like to share a recent experience with you all which was incredibly beneficial for me and can hopefully contribute to someone else’s development. Recently I attended a conference/workshop session in the University of Helsinki in Finland which had as its central themes teacher identity, teacher education, and English Language teaching. The keynote speaker was Ken Hyland […]
Read moreDear All (ongoing doctoral students) The new Semester is now underway so it’s time to note that: 1. you should all have set up your first supervision sessions and ideally have an agreed sense (if not an actually diarised agreement) of the regular supervisions to follow (fortnightly for full-timers, monthly for part-timers). 2. new starters (on the PhD Education) should […]
Read moreAny Induction week reflections to share? Yes . . . a late submission. Thanks for the submissions of other colleagues. My experiences were similar too. Just another version. Bona’s recollections of the 2013-2014 Induction Week Hi all, I guess Richard’s request for us to share our reflections of the Induction week is probably related to the SEED/MIE version in the […]
Read moreDear All, Please kindly find below the abstract and summary I submitted for 2014 IATEFL Conference, a conference I have always wanted to attend (as a presenter) since 2009, the first time my friend, Diana, and I attended this event. (Diana also submitted hers yesterday). I do hope to share you good news in November 🙂 This is the freshly […]
Read moreI have just had my first Annual Review in the new format with Dr Juup Stelma in the hot seat as independent reviewer, and found it an overwhelmingly positive and thought-provoking process. I was honest about the issues with which I am struggling and the tensions between the framework in which I am working – feminist relational ethics – and […]
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