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International Webinar on Pragmatic Awareness and Multilingual Classroom Discourse

16/12/2020 Jing Wang Leave a comment

A two-day Webinar on pragmatic awareness and multilingual classroom discourse will be held through Google Meet on 21st and 22nd December. Speakers and topics as shown below. 21st: From 11.00 (CET) ISTVÁN KECSKÉS–Developing common ground in English as a Lingua Franca discourse ANGEL LIN, QINGHUA CHEN & PEDRO DOS SANTOS–Navigating Academia in North America with Translanguaging Awareness 22nd: From 13.00 […]

Conference Announcements

{New Book} Intercultural Communication and Language Pedagogy From Theory to Practice

15/12/2020 Xian Zhao Leave a comment

New Book From Cambridge University Press, Here is the link to this book: Intercultural Communication and Language Pedagogy from Theory to Practice Intercultural Communication and Language Pedagogy From Theory to Practice Author: Zsuzsanna I. Abrams, University of California, Santa Cruz PUBLISHED: August 2020 ‘This is an excellent and comprehensive read on the topic of intercultural communication, with very useful teaching […]

A video of translanguaging on YouTube

11/12/2020 Jing Wang Leave a comment

Hi, guys! Happy Friday! Second post for today. Hope this post can bring some extra productivity into your life today! I’d like to share an interesting 5-minute video about translanguaging in this post. This video mainly discusses the conception of translanguaging and how to teach students to implement translanguaging in a very vivid and concise way. And the animation makes […]

Interesting videos

Interesting journal to share

11/12/2020 Jing Wang Leave a comment

ELT Journal is known as an international journal for TESOL teachers. In in this volume, it discusses English as a lingua franca and language teaching (mainly about reflection). This volume gets some very positive reviews and may be of pedagogical implications. If you want to know more about the articles involved in detail, please have a look at this […]

Interesting books/articles

{JOB} UEA Research Associate (English/Chinese speaking)

08/12/2020 Richard Fay Leave a comment

LINK https://myview.uea.ac.uk/webrecruitment/pages/vacancy.jsf?vacancyRef=RA1804 FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING Research Associate (Part-time 0.5fte, Fixed Term) Ref: RA1804 £26,715 to £32,817 per annum, Pro rata UEA has some of the most innovative and highly regarded centres for research in the UK. Applications are invited for the post of Research Associate to undertake research in collaboration […]

Jobs

{New Book} The Intentional Dynamics of TESOL by Juup Stelma and Achilleas Kostoulas

04/12/2020 Jing Wang 2 comments

“The central idea of the book is that there is an ‘ecology of ideas’ in TESOL, which consists of established practices, rules, expectations and more. We (Juup and I) call this an intentional ecology and examine how shapes activity and meaning-making in TESOL; we also discuss how this activity comes back to recursively shape the intentional ecology. The book consists […]

Getting published

{CfP} International Student Journeys

03/12/2020 Richard Fay Leave a comment

Please share this widely with current and past international students – thanks so much! Darla Deardorff, Duke University Do you know an international student with a story to share? Share this opportunity with them. Developing Intercultural Competence: International Students’ Journeys Lily A. Arasaratnam-Smith & Darla K. Deardorff. Routledge Studies in Global Student Mobility book series [Krishna Bista and Chris R. […]

{Article submission} Critical intercultural supervisory praxis ….

02/12/2020 Richard Fay One comment

We (i.e. Richard, Jane and Min) submitted an article with this abstract today – let’s see how the review process goes !! Narrowing the gap between institutional practice and aspiring praxis: Developing critical intercultural supervisory cultures in largely Anglophone UK university contexts Abstract: As contextualised by doctoral supervision in largely Anglophone Departments of Education in UK universities, this article seeks […]

Conference/article plans

Diversify the curriculum?

02/12/2020 Richard Fay Leave a comment

Link: p.25 Guardian, Wednesday 2nd December, 2020 Ofsted chief resists calls to make England school curriculum more diverse ‘Teach science behind climate change not morality tale,’ says Amanda Spielman The chief inspector of schools in England has pushed back against growing calls to make the national curriculum more diverse, warning against making curriculum changes based on a single issue or purpose. Speaking […]

In the news

{NEW CHAPTER} Developing Anglo-centric literacy: problematizing understandings of criticality

02/12/2020 Richard Fay Leave a comment

Link Bekar, M. and Fay, R. (2020). Developing Anglo-centric literacy: problematizing understandings of criticality. In A. Simpson & F. Dervin (Eds.), The meanings of criticality in education research: reflecting on critical pedagogy. (pp.23-45). Cham.: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56009-6_2 Abstract: In this chapter, with a focus on Anglo-centred academic literacy, we seek to problematize the concept of criticality in educational thinking. […]

MA in Language Education for Refugees and Migrants

30/11/2020 Richard Fay 2 comments

Achilleas Kostoulas is a LANTERN alumnus and there are links to his blog elsewhere in this LANTERN space, but I wanted to share his latest post because it is about an MA programme with which I had some involvement in its early days and which I think is a very worthwhile and well-designed endeavour …. MA in Language Education for […]

Miscellaneous news etc

{NEW BOOK} TESOL Teacher Education in a Transnational World

29/11/2020 Richard Fay Leave a comment

TESOL Teacher Education in a Transnational World Turning Challenges into Opportunities (Eds. Barnawi & Ahmed, 2021) Routledge. TESOL Teacher Education in a Transnational World critically examines theories and practices in contemporary TESOL teacher education to shed new light on the intersection of transnationalism and language teacher education. It emphasizes the scholarship of transnational mobility of language teachers, and showcases critical […]

IC podcasts

27/11/2020 Richard Fay Leave a comment

TESOL Intercultural Communication Interest Section (ICIS) has just released the final instalment of their Podcast Series: Colleen Ward: “Managing Multiple Cultural Identities” Stephen Fox: “What the Arts Can (and Can’t) Communicate Across Cultures” Milton Bennett: “The Intercultural Doors of Perception” The first 10 podcasts are: 1. John Berry’s “How Shall We All Live Together?“; 2. Betina Szkudlarek, Selena Choo, […]

New Appointments

25/11/2020 Richard Fay Leave a comment

A message from Taslima Ivy: I am very happy to announce that me (Taslima Ivy) and Felix Kwihangana will be joining MIE as senior tutors very soon. That makes five Lanterners working as senior tutors in MIE (Ivy, Felix, Nahielly, Susan and Min). I cannot wait to see where this new chapter of my life will take me! CONGRATULATIONS […]

Miscellaneous news etc

{New Book} Native speakerism

22/11/2020 Richard Fay Leave a comment

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811556708 Link © 2020 Native-Speakerism: Its Resilience and Undoing Houghton, Stephanie Ann, Bouchard, Jérémie (Eds.) Free Preview Unpacks problems presented by the native-speaker model in foreign language education programs Provides a range of conceptual tools to situate ideological discourses and processes within educational contexts Documents some of the shifts underway from native-speakerism to post-native-speakerism About this book This book explores native-speakerism […]

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