Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2008, English translation 2009). El Juego del Angel (translated by Lucia Graves as The Angel’s Game), Madrid: Editorial Planeta / London: Phoenix. pg.121 of the 2009 English translation: “Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters […]
Read moreAfter completing the first semester’s research training by submitting four assignments yesterday, I couldn’t believe how much I wrote over the past month; four assignments, each of them around 3000-4000 words! Of course, we attended lectures and sessions during the semester, but I think I have learned even more when it came to the ‘doing-your-own job’. It was a great […]
Read moreThe AHRC ‘Researching Multilingually’ team of which I am part – as is fellow Doctoral Community member and PhD alumnus Mariam Attia – is running a 1-day workshop on this RM theme on February 26th at Durham University, more details will be forthcoming soon. R
Read moreJanuary 2013, half way through the research agenda Taking stock of my research activities conducted in the autumn 2012 (NOT of the collected/generated data), I’m thinking of the applicability of the “amendments section” in the RREA form (Amendments to proposed research design for LOW risk research, which records “any applications made during the life time of the Project regarding minor […]
Read moreFor the upcoming REF exercise here in the UK, we’ve been asked to supply data on where our Doctoral Community has been publishing since 2008. The ‘snag’ is that they are only interested in journal articles – a point we should all take note of in terms of what it indicates about the value attached to different kinds of pubications […]
Read moreNext up will be Paul (Smith) for whom Juup and I will be doing a Mock Viva later this week in preparation for the real thing most likely on 24th January. Time to wish him well 🙂
Read moreMy proposal has been accepted for a paper presentation at the American Association of Applied Linguistics conference in Dallas in March, and my attendance there is being funded by the School of Education. The paper I’ll be presenting is based on the narrative of one of my PhD participants: This presentation draws on data from my PhD, a narrative study […]
Read moreCongratulations to Eljee, Lou and Fitri on their recent funding application successes. I hope we’ll hear more about these papers and events soon. R
Read moreFull Conference Programme See below for Papers with: (1) LTE Doctoral Community research associate, Leah Davcheva; (2) the AHRC Researching Multilingually team including LTE Doctoral Community alumnus and research associate Mariam Attia; and (3) LTE Doctoral alumnus and research associate, Xiaowei Zhou. Davcheva, L. and R. Fay (2012). Zones of interculturality in Identity Performance: Tales of Ladino from Sephardic Jews […]
Read moreI was a Guest Speaker at this event last weekend: http://www.enl.auth.gr/gala/conf2012_en.htm And here is the powerpoint for what I presented: Our long-standing community member Achilleas kindly came to hear me; a 6- hour round trip, a call beyond duty!
Read moreMy paper entitled “INDONESIAN LECTURERS’ AND STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCE AND PERCEPTION ON CLIL -Content and Language integrated Learning” has been accepted for the ICLHE (Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education) Conference in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The conference will take place on 10-13 April 2013. Yay! it’s Spring…..the best time of the year for my first visit to the flowery country:-) […]
Read morePaul Smith is submitting his thesis today and will be having his viva in early January; I wish him all the best in this next stage of his researcher journey! Magdalena De Stefani’s corrections are being submitted very soon; I wish her all the best with this final step. Important events for our doctoral community 🙂
Read moreI can’t believe it but I actually won this award! WAA! It’s for $800 USD to cover conference related costs. Considering I’m heading overseas next year for TESOL International Convention and English Language Expo 2013 every bit of funding helps. I was looking for any kind of external conference funding to help me get to TESOL 2013 and, upon a […]
Read moreDear all, It has been one month and two days of me being in Manchester but I feel that I have been here much longer. Loads of things happening and a lot more things to do. I would like to share a bit of my feeling and experience in my research trainings. Being in the research training modules gives me […]
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