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Tuesday, 14th January (Richmond)
1. John Kampfner’s latest post on his blog, Citizen of Everywhere, on the next – anything’s possible, he reminds us! – prime minister of Germany, Could the AfD seize power? https://johnkampfner.substack.com/p/could-the-afd-seize-power 2. A piece for World University News about determined … Continue reading
Thursday, 19th December (Cambridge)
1. The inaugural issue of the ELT Classroom Research Journal has just been published https://eltcrj.com/v1i1/ The ELT Classroom Research Journal is for teachers to share their insights with peers across the globe in a manner that is practical and approachable … Continue reading
Thursday, 5th December (Cambridge)
1. There’s a TeachingEnglish webinar next Tuesday, 10th December, at 12.00 UK time withFiona Copland & Sue Garton on English as a school subject: learning effective practices from primary-sector English language teachers in the global south https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/news-and-events/webinars/webinars-teacher-educator/english-school-subject-learning-effective Here’s their blurb: … Continue reading
Tuesday, 3rd December (Richmond)
1. The October 2024 issue of ELTJ, vol. 78 Issue 4, was a special issue devoted to Generative Artificial Intelligence and ELT https://academic.oup.com/eltj/issue Lots of free access articles, including the editors’ introduction, Generative artificial intelligence and ELT, by Alessia Cogo, … Continue reading
Thursday, 28th November (Cambridge)
1. First up today, a gleaning from last week’s TLS (Times Literary Supplement), from the Munich research group, CESifo, A Matter of Taste: The Negative Welfare Effect of Expert Judgments by Nicolas Lagios & Pierre-Guillaume Méon https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4991796# From the glitz … Continue reading
Tuesday, 26th November (Richmond)
1. Some good clear analysis here from Carbon Brief of the final outcomes of COP 29 in Baku https://www.carbonbrief.org/cop29-key-outcomes-agreed-at-the-un-climate-talks-in-baku/ Tidily sorted into sections, which might lend itself to a whole class activity with pairs of students each responsible for summarising/reporting … Continue reading
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Tuesday, 12th November (Richmond)
1. First up today, The Place of English, Tony Capstick & Harry Kuchah Kuchah’s discussion for TeachingEnglish https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/news-and-events/webinars/webinars-teacher-educator/place-english How can teacher educators help teachers to think through and make sense of questions about the place of (varieties of) English in … Continue reading
Tuesday, 29th October (Richmond)
1. This year’s IATEFL Themes online conference is this coming Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd November, and it’s 50% highlights from this year’s f2f conference in Brighton in April (on Saturday) and 50% Special Interest Group (SIG) presentations (on Sunday). … Continue reading
Thursday, 24th October (Cambridge)
Some reading for the weekend! 1. First up tonight, a thought-provoking LinkedIn piece from Richard Culattta, Why we need to reconsider banning phones in schools https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-we-need-reconsider-banning-phones-schools-richard-culatta-q0d1e/ 2. Ceibal, now nearly twenty years old, was (and is) Uruguay’s imaginative response to … Continue reading
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Tuesday, 22nd October (Richmond)
1. Preply is one of the bigger online tutorial organisations. Their Online Teaching Conference 2024 starts this Thursday, 24th October, https://preply-tutors-conference-2024.vfairs.com/ PDF of programme below and here’s the high-octane blurb: Unlock your career potential: Connect, learn & grow. Get ready … Continue reading
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