Author Archives: roycross

1. NATESOL have very kindly offered four free places at their annual conference on Saturday, 15th May. The programme includes Language change and the learner: from buzzwords to basics and Challenging change: Exploratory Practice, Mentoring and Quality of Life in … Continue reading →

1. First up, a chance to win a copy of a recent Multilingual Matters (MM) publication: Ethical and Methodological Issues in Researching Young Language Learners in School Contexts, edited by Annamaria Pinter & (Harry) Kuchah Kuchah, or Assessment for Learning … Continue reading →

1. My own understanding of the notion of growth mindset is a pretty rudimentary one, largely gleaned from Lucy Crehan’s book, Cleverlands, which compared six national education systems that perform well in PISA with each other. Put simply, a ‘growth … Continue reading →

1. Mark Twain once said, “All good things arrive unto them that wait – and don’t die in the meantime.” The selected proceedings of the 2017 Dakar Language & Development Conference have just been published and are definitely a good … Continue reading →

1. Ample notice, so you can plan which sessions you want to attend, of the second annual Pearson English Spring Days event that starts a week today, on Tuesday 4th May, and runs for three days. It’s looking at how … Continue reading →

1. Just in time, I hope: English Australia have a webinar at 09:00 UK time tomorrow, Tuesday 27th April, at which Judit Kormos from Lancaster University will be talking about Inclusive practices for learning differences https://www.englishaustralia.com.au/events/event/inclusive-practices-for-learning-differences She’ll be discussing practical … Continue reading →

1. Next Wednesday, 28th April, sees the launch of the first of three modules in the Climate Action in Language Education professional development series for teachers: Introducing climate change issues into language teaching classes https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/climate-action-language-education-module-1-introducing-climate-change-issues-language A number of you, I … Continue reading →

1. Next Tuesday, 27th April at 15:00 UK time sees the next ECML webinar, on “The future of language education – learning lessons from the pandemic” https://www.ecml.at/Resources/Webinars/tabid/5456/Default.aspx The webinar will present the preliminary findings of the ECML’s survey of how … Continue reading →

1. Let’s start off today with a quick reminder of English UK’s Teachers Day from 09:00 UK time tomorrow, 22nd April https://www.englishuk.com/elt-conference#teachersday Here’s a link to Silvana Richardson and Chia Suan Chong’s talk at 12:00 UK time on The native … Continue reading →

1. Another excellent blog post from Alexandra Mihai, Thinking about authentic learning? Try Project-Based Learning https://educationalist.substack.com/p/thinking-about-authentic-learning Good reading list at the end, as ever! 2. The kind of feature, from The Guardian’s Experience series, that I’d have given my eye … Continue reading →