Monthly Archives: May 2021

A bumper crop today as I’m on holiday next week back home in Swaledale! I’ll be back on Tuesday 1st June. 1. Early notice of this year’s British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) Language in Africa SIG conference, African languages … Continue reading →

1. Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) and marks the tenth year of a campaign to raise awareness of the need to ensure digital content is accessible to disabled people and those with additional access needs https://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/ My colleague … Continue reading →

1. This one, recommended by my colleague Adam, won’t be around for ever, he says: the Association for Learning Technology‘s 12th annual conference for Open Education research, practice and policy https://oer21.oerconf.org/ Adam recommends you click on whatever takes your fancy … Continue reading →

1. Very early notice of this OUP series on Top Tips for Motivation and Engagement on June 8th, 9th and 10th, as they book up very early: https://elt.oup.com/events/global/top-tips-for-motivation-and-engagement?cc=gb&selLanguage=en 2. A series of four short videos on Who Needs Dictionaries?, each … Continue reading →

1. The first of two that I was prompted to include by a colleague from Japan, Gary Robert, this morning: BBC English’s 6 Minute English https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english Lead story at present? ‘When males are not needed’! Programme archives back to 2008 … Continue reading →

1. Chris Farrell from the Centre of English Studies is offering a month’s free trial of the online learning programme they developed as part of the PRELIM project in exchange for a little feedback. Visit their platform https://cesdirectlearning.podia.com/ and choose … Continue reading →

1. Next Monday, 17th May, at 12:00 UK time, hosted by the University of East Anglia: Social interaction in language teacher education: What a corpus can and can’t tell us by Fiona Farr from the University of Limerick. More info … Continue reading →

1. First out of the traps today, the first episode of the new Climate Connection podcast series https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/climate-connection-episode-1-taking-temperature-0 You can stream it or download it, and there’s notes on each episode and a transcript. Direct link to first episode here … Continue reading →

1. The latest report from Oxford University Press (OUP), Education: The journey towards a digital revolution, draws on insights from OUP staff from 7 countries—the UK, Brazil, South Africa, Pakistan, India, Spain, and Turkey – as well as from hundreds … Continue reading →

1. Lots of good stuff on the IATEFL events page, where the large majority of events are still free to non-members https://www.iatefl.org/events Coming up this week is a TEA (Testing, Evaluation & Assessment) SIG & ESP (English for Specific Purposes) … Continue reading →