Monthly Archives: May 2023

Blog version: https://roycross.blog/ 1. During the recent IATEFL conference in Harrogate, the IATEFL media team interviewed a number of delegates around key ELT topics, including sustainability, and noted that a large percentage of people struggled or were uncomfortable discussing sustainability … Continue reading →

1. The International Booker Prize has just been won for the first time by a Bulgarian writer, Georgi Gospodinov (whose name, I think, translates as ‘Gentleman George’) for his novel, ‘Time Shelter’, translated by Angela Rodel. Here’s The Guardian’s review … Continue reading →

1. This Thursday, 25th May, at 16:00 UK time, Diana Mazgutova & Judith Hanks from Leeds University present Examining L2 learners’ perceptions of their writing strategies on an intensive EAP course in the UK. More info and registration here https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2023/may/examining-l2-learners-perceptions-their-writing-strategies-intensive-eap-course-uk … Continue reading →

Some serious reading for the weekend: 1. Socioeconomic Inequality and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Twenty Years of TIMSS is an open access publication examining trends in educational inequality using twenty years of grade 8 student data collected from 13 education … Continue reading →

1. This looks likely to be interesting: Teaching House present Jason Anderson & Bobby Dunnett at 19:00 UK time this Thursday, 18th May. Jason will help us prepare for the unpredictable in our lessons; Bobby will extol the virtues of … Continue reading →

1. Another just in time job, alas, this one! This year’s NATESOL Annual Conference – From theory to classroom practice and back again: What are we doing and why? – is this Saturday, 13th May, from 10:00 to 15:00 UK … Continue reading →

1. Short notice – but I hope not too short notice – of an adventurous National Geographic Learning event tomorrow about the ‘Boiling River’ in the Amazon jungle in Peru with DaVida Alston & Andrés Ruzo: A short video here … Continue reading →

1. OUP (Oxford University Press) have a new position paper just out, The Key to Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) More info and download here https://elt.oup.com/feature/global/expert/?cc=gb&selLanguage=en OUP claim that it will help you “nurture confident, successful, life-long learners with a practical framework … Continue reading →

1. Two pieces on ChatGPT first today: a) the more academic of the two is this piece by Chung Kwan Lo for the Education Sciences journal, What Is the Impact of ChatGPT on Education? A Rapid Review of the Literature … Continue reading →