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Call for Papers: Classroom-oriented research: Reconciling Theory and Practice
Classroom-oriented research: Reconciling theory and practice Konin (Poland), 14-16 October, 2013 The 3rd International Conference on classroom-oriented research will be organised by the Institute of...
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English as a lingua franca: selected readings
This post serves to provide a selective overview of recent debate regarding English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). ELF, very briefly, is a term used to describe the communication in English between people...
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Call for papers: 7th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca...
7th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca Athens, 4-6 September 2014 The 7th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF7) is to be held in Athens (DEREE- The American...
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Building Blocks of ELT: Language, Learner and Vision [Call for papers]
ELTForum.sk will be holding a conference titled Building Blocks of ELT: Language, Learner and Vision, at the Ekonomická univerzita v Bratislave on 7-8 June 2014. Proposals are invited for 60-minute...
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Arizona Working Papers in SLA and Teaching [Call for Papers]
Researchers working in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) or related fields are invited to submit original manuscripts to the Arizona Working Papers in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. The...
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Race and TESOL
One of the many passages I have underlined in The Reflexive Teacher Educator in TESOL by Julian Edge is the following: Javier (2010) also reports the difficulties of establishing her acceptability to...
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“Primary English Language Teaching does more harm than good”
In this year’s ELT Journal debate, held at the IATEFL Conference οn 3rd April, the motion was put forward that “Primary ELT does more harm than good”. According to Graham Hall, editor of ELT J, the...
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On the ELT J debate, continued
A while ago, I wrote about this year’s ELT J debate, titled “This house believes that Primary ELT does more harm than good”. Janet Enever, who spoke against the motion, has since written a post...
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Chapter published: Understanding and Challenging ‘the Known’
I am happy to announce that a chapter that I have written is due to appear in an edited collection to be published by Palgrave in November 2014. The book The volume, edited by Damian Rivers, is titled...
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Primary ELT: feedback from the community
Over the past month, I posted a link to this article on several online communities in Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn, asking what ELT professionals thought about Primary ELT, i.e., the policies of...
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Call for chapters: Preparing teachers to teach English as an International...
An edited volume, tentatively titled Preparing teachers to teach English as an International Language (EIL), is being put together by Aya Matsuda, for publication with Multilingual Matters in Spring...
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Our IATEFL 2015 presentation: “Teaching English to Young Learners: Some...
I am very happy to announce that I will be chairing a panel discussion that will focus on Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL) in the upcoming IATEFL conference. The discussion will take place on...
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Matters of Individuals in Contexts: Psychology of Language Learning 2
Two of the best conferences I ever attended were the “New Dynamics of Language Learning” conference in Jyväskylä, Finland (June 2011), and “Matters of the Mind – Psychology of Language Learning”, in...
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Teaching English to Young Learners: some insights from the literature
In the space of the last couple of years there has been a surge of interest in Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL). For instance, in IATEFL 2014 there was a debate about ELT in primary schools...
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Call for papers: 14th Symposium on Second Language Writing
The 14th Symposium on Second Language Writing (SSLW 2015) will take place on 19th – 21st November 2015, at the Auckland University of Technology. The theme of the conference is: Learning to write for...
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“Exclusively hiring native speakers is not discrimination” Seriously?
A while ago, I read a post in one of the Facebook groups I visit, claiming that Hiring a Native English Speaker is not Discrimination. In brief, the author claimed that Native English Speaking Teachers...
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Call for Papers: 4th International Conference on TEYL Assessment & Learning
The Faculty of Education of the University of Kragujevac (Serbia) are organising the 4th International Conference on Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL), which will take place on the 5th and 6th...
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This year’s ELT Journal debate
ELT Journal are holding their annual debate at IATEFL in Manchester on Monday 13 April 2015. This year’s motion is Language testing does more harm than good. In the latest issue of ELT J (unfortunately...
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The History of ELT: a different perspective
I am willing to venture that, at some point in their careers, all the readers of this blog attended some kind of ‘Approaches and Methods’ module, which most likely traced the development of language...
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Call for Chapters: English-Medium Instruction in Japan
A call for chapters has been issued for an edited collection focussing on English Medium Instruction (EMI) in Japanese higher education. The book, to be edited by Howard Brown (University of Niigata),...
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