Hi All, Below I copy the message from this conference organiser. Any of interest? Last few places are remaining. Please register as soon as possible to secure a place if you would like to attend. On Friday 24th June 2016 from 10am to 5.30pm we are holding a one-day conference for up to 50 PhD students who are researching any […]
Read moreI am currently co-writing a book chapter with Richard, my main supervisor. The book we are contributing to “ELF for EFL Contexts” (working title) explores the possibilities of teaching English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in the contexts of English as a foreign language (EFL). The purpose of our chapter is to inform EFL teachers about the possibilities of fine-tuning […]
Read moreA freshly minted book written by Anne Swan, Pamela Aboshiha, and Adrian Holliday. For us interested in Native-Nonnative speakearism issues in English Language Teaching. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/encountering-nativespeakerism-anne-swan/?isb=9781137463494
Read more‘Englishes in Practice’ could be an interesting journal for us working within the area of ELP, EMI, CLIL, Multilingualism, and World Englishes to both look for some references (I have found two useful articles on EMI and ELF for myself) and to find opportunities for publishing our papers (with the rejection rate of 25%, quite a good opportunity) (It does say Open […]
Read moreAs led by Ross White (Glasgow), and together with colleagues from Uganda (Rosco Kasujja and Ponsiano Okalo), our following conference paper has been accepted. In it, we use our experiences (for the AHRC project, Case Study 1) in Lira in northern Uganda (see the researching-multilingually-at-borders.com website for more on this case study) as a stimulus to think more about appropriate […]
Read moreHere’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 moreI must admit I had not expected much of the conference in Vlora. In part, it was because it was organised by relatively junior faculty members in a peripheral university, so I assumed they wouldn’t have access to the requisite know-how. It was also partly due to that typically Greek prejudice against other South Eastern Europeans (Greeks are prejudiced by […]
Read moreI’ve just returned from the conference in Vlora, Albania, which I must say was surprisingly successful. I will probably be putting up a longer post about the entire experience, but for the moment I think that the presentation will have to do. Some of the slides are not entirely intuitive, but there is explanatory text embedded in the powerpoint. Comments […]
Read moreI have been awarded a GTRA studentship!!! This award will cover my international student fees and gives me the opportunity to teach on undergraduate and/or post graduate courses. Below is a link for more info: http://www.education.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/funding A long and ardourous journey but well worth all the effort!!!
Read moreThis post traces the meandering path of an article I am working on, from its original inception to a stage very close to submission. I don’t know how typical this pathway is, but I thought that it might be worth a read in that it present’s an insiders’ perspective of how an article might come into existence. I think it […]
Read moreI am attaching here the ppt for the paper which Nicos Sifakis gave last week – on behalf of the research team also including Vally Lytra and myself – at the ELF (English as a lingua franca) conference in Vienna. I will also add his reflections on how it went. Sifakis, N., Lytra, V. and Fay, R. (2010). English as a lingua […]
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