At the end of October, Gary Motteram and I presented a paper at the CARN (Collaborative Action Research Network) conference that was held in the Friends Meeting House, Manchester – a great venue by the way. It was one of those smallish, friendly conferences with built in opportunities for discussion in small groups. The conference covered all types of participatory […]
Read moreThe talk from last Friday (29th April), is now available to view here. It is also available via the Links tab. Power Point
Read moreThe first talk is on Friday 29th April 12.00-1.00 and is based on the work Fitri, Nahielly, Volha and I are doing with Andy Howes and the Coalition of Research Schools Exploring participants’ changing perspectives through the life of an inter-school, collaborative, research and development project. In this talk we will briefly give the background of the Coalition of Schools […]
Read moreHere is the link to last Friday’s IATEFL Web Conference paper given by Juup Stelma on Language Teachers doing Research: What, How and Why. This means if you didn’t make the actual event, you can still watch Juup in action.
Read moreA few weeks ago, myself and two of my learners submitted an abstract for the series ‘Voices from the TESOL classroom’. I was really excited about this series as they were specifically asking for contributions between teachers and academics, or teachers and learners. One thing I have wanted to do for some time is to find a way for the […]
Read moreBelow are details of a TESOL research award. I note that you need to be a member of TESOL to apply, but it looks like an interesting proposition for anyone at the stage of wanting to take their research interests further. Here is some brief information from the website about the TESOL International Association Research Agenda and the award: TESOL research may […]
Read moreTraditionally, New Year is the time to look back at the happenings and achievements of the past 12 months and also look forward to the coming year and set goals and plans, often accompanied by resolutions. I’m not really one for resolutions – I never keep them anyway and my overarching goal this next year, at least in academic terms, is to […]
Read moreThis is a question I have been asking myself over the last couple of days as I started my pilot study. I am doing classroom-based research which means that I am researching my own learners. I’m using normal pedagogic activities to collect my data, so I’m not interviewing students or running focus groups or anything like that, I’m just doing […]
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