Monthly Archives: November 2023

1. Oak National Academy here in the UK is in the news at present, as a result of the UK government’s plans to have Oak offer free curriculum resources to schools, described in apocalyptic terms by The Bookseller as “an … Continue reading →

1. The application process for A. S. Hornby Educational Trust scholarships for study in the UK has just opened for English language teachers from outside the UK to study on the one-year MEd TESOL at the University of Exeter from … Continue reading →

Three online events to start with today: 1. Next Tuesday, 28th November, at 15:00 UK time, the 2023 Mercator Multilingualism Lecture with Dr Sharon Unsworth from the Centre for Language Studies at Radboud Universiteit in Nijmegen, What (not) to expect … Continue reading →

A bit of a climate theme today … 1. The next Green Action ELT online event, at 14:00 UK time this coming Friday, 24th November, is Green activism: how far can we go? with Linda Ruas. It asks the question, … Continue reading →

1. The LanguageCert ‘Energise your Classroom‘ webinar series, which “aims to introduce you to new perspectives, tools, and useful ideas to empower your teaching and enhance your students’ learning experience”, continues at 15:00 UK time next Wednesday, 22nd November with … Continue reading →

1. Here’s a new resource from Teachers Without Borders https://teacherswithoutborders.org/ on Design Thinking, which they explain is “a human-centered, iterative problem-solving methodology that places empathy, ideation, prototyping, and testing at its core. Originally pioneered in the realm of product design, … Continue reading →

1. This post is late – and solitary and longer! – this week because I’ve been attending a colloquium on Regional and minority languages within a plurilingual context at the ECML (European Centre for Modern Languages) in Graz in Southern … Continue reading →

1. I’ve quite often included UKFIET https://www.ukfiet.org/ blog posts. For a change, here are videos of the plenary talks from their recent joint conference in Oxford with BAICE https://baice.ac.uk/ (the British Association for International & Comparative Education) https://www.ukfiet.org/2023/plenary-videos-from-ukfiet-2023-conference/ This powerful … Continue reading →

1. I’m not quite sure why this Essex University research on accents has been all over the papers and the radio this week, on the face of it eight months after its publication: here’s Essex academic Amanda Cole’s occasional blog … Continue reading →