1. NATESOL’s 41st Annual Conference, Learners and Learning, is on Saturday 17th May and is a hybrid event, online via Zoom or on-site at Manchester Metropolitan University. All speakers get to attend free and the deadline for the submission of proposals is not too far off, 27th March. More info here https://www.natesol.org/event-details/natesol-annual-conference-2025-call-for-proposals You’ll need to scroll down and click on ‘read more’.
2. Here’s an advance open access article from the forthcoming issue of ELTJ, Global Englishes teaching in secondary schools in Italy by Claudia Andreani & Jim McKinley https://academic.oup.com/eltj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/elt/ccaf010/8042391?login=false
To foster the internationalisation of higher education, English has been established as the lingua franca par excellence in as diverse domains as medicine, technology, science, diplomacy, and business and has been adopted as the medium of instruction in universities across the world. In this context, published English Language Teaching (ELT) research, mainly dominated by a ‘standard’ American or British English ideology, has instilled, and still promotes, an idea whereby English language learners should pursue native-like competence, thus attributing the status of role models to native English speakers (NES). Rooted in standard language ideology, this ‘code fixation’ (Seidlhofer 2018: 96) assigns prominence to British English and General American English in ELT as institutionalised varieties to the detriment of others which are widely used in global communication.
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3. You’ll find all the episodes of the latest, third series of the TeachingEnglish podcast with We’am Hamdan & Chris Sowton here https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/professional-development/podcast/teaching-english
Maybe try either Episode 4: What is the impact of artificial intelligence on English language teaching? https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/professional-development/podcast/teaching-english/teachingenglish-podcast-what-impact-artificial
or Episode 9: How can we use the creative arts to teach English? https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/professional-development/podcast/teaching-english/how-can-we-use-creative-arts-teach-english
Show notes and transcripts in English and Arabic are available to download for each episode.
4. Staying with TeachingEnglish, here’s the recording of an enjoyable TeachingEnglish Facebook Live event last week, Planning for Every Learner, with Emily Bryson & Gabriel Díaz Maggioli https://www.facebook.com/TeachingEnglish.BritishCouncil/videos/planning-for-every-learner/632161289446568 Emily and Gabriel answered questions from the audience about lesson planning, differentiation, visual thinking, and more.
Here’s the TeachingEnglish homepage with info on forthcoming events, not just the ones I tell you about after the fact! https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/
5. And, finally and cephalopodically, an NYT gift article with some great video, What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish https://tinyurl.com/3n7t6mzx
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