The 'usual rubbish about equal opportunities'
I couldn’t resist sharing this one …. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-14788731
Read more20 Must-Read Web Sites to Help You Survive Your PhD Program
Mark Shurz contacted me (‘cold’ after coming across our community) with the following links if anyone is interested: I write articles for http://www.phdprogramsonline.org/, a website dedicated to providing students with the information and tools needed in order to pursue their Online PhD Programs. I ran across your site, and I thought that your readers might be interested in the latest […]
Read moreThe BAAL Colloquium on DRM – An Update
Yesterday we had our BAAL colloquium in Bristol: Jane Andrews ppt Xiaowei Zhou (and Richard Fay) ppt Mariam Attia ppt Richard Fay & Leah Davcheva ppt The Colloquium went really well. We did not have a large audience but those who came seemed interested in the work as reflected in the questions asked. Ros Mitchell, for example asked a question about […]
Read moreHigher-Education Internationalization
Here is a link to an interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/worldwise/defining-internationalization/28615 Magda
Read moreAustralian Review of Applied Linguistics (EIL)
The Australian Review of Applied Linguistics has published a special issue on English as an International language, which is available free of charge from the link below: http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/aral/issue/view/175 There are articles by all the ‘usual suspects’ (Phillipson, Pennycook, Kirkpatrick, Seidlhoffer and others).
Read moreNewsletter #1 (August 2011)
This is the first newsletter in what I hope will become a monthly endeavour p?sted towards the end of the month concerned. If you want me to include any items, let me know as and when the item arises, and I will include it in the next Newsletter. Alternatively, you can add you news as a comment to my postings. The […]
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Attack on the British Council office in Kabul
On Friday the 19th of August, the British Council office in Kabul was attacked by two suicide bombers. Several people were killed, mostly Afghani policemen. The attack took place on the day marking 92 years of Afghanistan’s independence from the British rule in 1919. Although the Guardian said that “it was unclear whether the attack was related to the […]
Read moreApproaches to Supervision
I am putting this under ‘Research Methods’ although it’s really about supervisory cultures/approaches. I am currently reading the following book: Lee, Anna (2012!). Successful research supervision: advising students doing research. London and New York, Routledge. In it, Lee identifies five (potentially interconnected) supervisory approaches as follows: (institutionally-oriented) functional (relating to Code sof Practice, contractual obligations, organisational matters Panels etc); supporting enculturation; developing critical thinking; enabling […]
Read morePublication plans
Last May, I submitted a proposal for a paper “English Language, Arab Students, Polish Teacher: Hybrid Identities in a Globalised Qatari Classroom” to be presented at the 4th International Adriatic-Ionian Conference, ACROSS LANGUAGES AND CULTURES, at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 1-3 September, 2011. The proposal was accepted in June for presentation at the Intercultural Education/Cultural Identity and Globalisation session. […]
Read moreJournal of English as a Lingua Franca
Here’s some info on a new journal I litterally stumbled upon. The topic of the journal is (obviously) English as a Lingua Franca, and it’s edited by Jennifer Jenkins, Barbara Seidlhoffer and Anna Mauranen. There doesn’t seem to be a page anywhere with information for authors, but I thought it might be interesting nonetheless
Read moreNot gloating, but…
Here are the latest Shanghai rankings. The University of Manchester appears to be in the 5th place in the UK table, 5th in Europe (used to be 9th) and 38th in the world ranking (used to be 44th).
Read moreLighten-up your writing-up
Hello everyone, Following email communication with members from the doctoral community on the topic of writing-up, I suggested moving the discussion to the blog for possible wider participation. I thought I would start this thread for sharing thoughts, ideas, pleasures, and pains of writing-up with the hope of turning it into an enjoyable process of creative production especially for those […]
Read moreJulian's upcoming departure
By now, I think all of you will know that Julian will be retiring from the LTE group from the end of September. For his ‘take’ on this, see Edgeblog #18 . More, much more, can and will not doubt be said on this theme, but for now I just want to wish him well in all that comes next.
Read moreSupervisor competence
All of you may be interested in the resources for supervisors to which staff are now being directed in our Faculty, i.e. the Training for Supervisors webpage. Richard
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