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Teacher Education for Languages with Technology / Formation des enseignants de langue avec les TICE
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Discourse domain approach to teaching ESP and application to task-based university courses.
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Slides from a conference presentation I gave at the ESP workshop during the French annual conference of university English teachers and researchers. http://saes2013.u-bourgogne.fr/ateliers/41-atelier-23-anglais-de-specialite-geras.html
I argue that we can use the notion of discourse domain to inform task-based teaching for all kinds of ESP, including students who are traditionally classified as "specialist" (pre-service EFL teachers) and "non-specialist" or "specialists in other disciplines" (LANSAD; or usual ESP fields such as medicine, law etc.). 
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May 21, 4:20 AM
Un travail de recherche à partir de cours hybride pour étudiants LANSAD en master et doctorants. Article ici : http://asp.revues.org/ (mars 2013) Delete the scoop?
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Some news on the development on open-source collaborative editing and corpus tools; a Spanish corpus, reactions to OERs, MOOCs and more. Delete the scoop?
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Does research engagement by teachers (i.e. reading and doing research) enhance the quality of their classroom practices? In this talk I draw on a series of studies which examine language teachers’ and managers’ views on this issue. The findings I report highlight a range of positive, hesitant and negative perspectives on the relationship between research engagement and teaching quality. What also emerges in the views expressed by teachers and managers are diverse conceptions of what ‘research’ means, typically emphasizing personal, practical and informal activities or, in contrast, those which are more formal, theoretical and academic. Neither of these conceptions of research provides a satisfactory basis for promoting research engagement as a productive professional development strategy. I will thus conclude the talk by outlining a conception of teacher research engagement which is feasible and rigorous and which has the potential to contribute positively to the quality of language teachers’ work.
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Borg highlights differing views of what consitutes "research" - unsurprisingly, teachers and researchers don't use the same definition, making collaboration challenging. Delete the scoop?
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Recommended website: El Camino de Santiago. Matilde Asencio.
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Open access articles from EuroCALL. Delete the scoop?
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Slides and handout from at TESOL 2013 presentation discussing an action research project looking at vocabulary learning techniques with EAP students.
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Other posts on vocabulary from learner, teacher and researcher perspectives: http://www.scoop.it/t/telt?q=vocabulary Delete the scoop?
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This is the December 2012 call for papers for a Special Issue of Research in Learning Technology, the Journal of the Association for Learning Technology.
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Deadline for full papers 1 May 2013. The journal Research in Learning Technology is peer-reviewed and open access since Jan 2012. Delete the scoop?
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AILA 2014 invites proposals for presentations that are related to policy, research, and theory in areas of applied linguistics. Proposals may be for individual papers, posters, symposia or workshops. Please refer to the streams available for submissions.
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Open until 30 April. Delete the scoop?
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Mapping Applied Linguistics: A Guide for Students and Practitioners provides an innovative and wide-ranging introduction to the full scope of applied linguistics.
Incorporating both socio-cultural and cognitive perspectives, the book maps the diverse and constantly expanding range of theories, methods and issues faced by students and practitioners alike. Practically oriented and ideally suited to students new to the subject area, the book provides in-depth coverage of: language teaching and education, literacy and language disorderslanguage variation and world Englisheslanguage policy and planninglexicography and forensic linguisticsmultilingualism and translation.Including real data and international examples, the book features further reading and exercises in each chapter, fieldwork suggestions and a full glossary of key terms.
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That's the book blurb, but it's the companion website I'm flagging. Links, references, activities, community, and a PDF of the introduction http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/hall/downloads/chSample.pdf with a debunking of all those language-related myths people need to get past in order to learn and teach languages effectively. Delete the scoop?
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Volume 4, Issue 1 - March 2013
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Open access for limited time: invited essay by William Grabe and Cui Zhang on EAP Delete the scoop?
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The March 2013 issue ofTESOL Quarterly is free! Click on article titles to access individual articles, or click here to access the full issue.
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Research articles on TBLT and focus on form, report on technologies in language teaching, book reviews. Delete the scoop?
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"Using a combination of lecture and experiential exercises, ESL education specialist Diane Larsen-Freeman traces the evolution of language teaching methods over the past 60 years, discussing how each evolutionary phase has contributed to a more "whole-person" view of language learners. Larsen-Freeman suggests that when educators treat language as a closed, static system, they create a critical barrier to student empowerment. When language is instead seen as the complex, dynamic system, teachers are able to help their students transform their linguistic world, not merely conform to it. Larsen-Freeman illustrates how this shift in understanding has implications for what and how teachers teach."
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One of the big names in both second language research and teaching methodology, Diane Larsen-Freeman on the implications of CDS theory for language learners.
See also this Language Teaching article drawn from a recent plenary (if you have access) http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8498799 Delete the scoop?
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7th Summer Seminar: June 6th—7th, 2013 Theme: EAP and Technology-enhanced Learning The keynote talks will be by Martin Barge, Jessica Cooper and William Tweddle from Queen Mary, University of London, who have extensive experience in developing technology-enhanced courses in EAP. This is what they propose for NFEAP 2013: «Our talk will be on creating online materials for EAP students. We will cover the whole process: planning and design, sourcing content, selecting authoring platforms, piloting/trialling and revising the material (what some call an ‘iterative’ development process) and tracking its use. We will base this on our experiences of creating the “Academic English Online” materials that we created for our students at Queen Mary University, London. So our paper will be based on real experience, but will also be underpinned by key literature in the field of Computer Assisted Language Learning.» Delete the scoop?
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For those doing postgraduate work in Applied LinguisticsDifferent sections on topics such as SLA (Jordan published a 2004 book on SLA theory), links to sites and videos on relevant research, references for theory and teaching, and advice on writing a thesis.
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Accessible and lively presentations suitable for graduate students and beyond; forthright and occasionally hilarious annotated reference list.
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Presentation accompanying "Developing L2 Pragmatics," by Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, published in the first issue of the Currents in Language Learning Series, issue 63:S1 of Language Learning: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lang.2013.63.issue-s1/issuetoc
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Overview of research into "how learners come to know how-to-say-what-to-whom-when." This 40-minute slide presentation by the author offers a useful way in to her state-of-the-art article on second language pragmatics; the Language Learning article itself is open access. 
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May 9, 8:41 AM
I haven't managed to get access to the article. I'm not sure if it's still available, but I suppose the presentation takes the paper content into account anyway Delete the scoop?
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"The Brazilian Journal of Applied Linguistics calls for submissions of manuscripts for its special 2014 issue on Language Education in Multilingual Contexts. We welcome contributions covering both conceptual frameworks and empirical studies analyzing implementations of language education programs and policies that seek to cater for language contact situations. Submissions must be in English only and are due on the 31st of August, 2013." Delete the scoop?
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ELT blogger Rachel Roberts: "To read better, improve your pronunciation…. from a talk by Catherine Walter."
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According to Roberts, Walter's research suggests we "sub-vocalise and record the sound of what we are reading," and so "we would be better off teaching [learners] to improve how they ‘mentally represent spoken language’ than teaching comprehension skills." The original article: Walter, C. (2008). Phonology in second language reading: not an optional extra.TESOL Quarterly, 42(3), 455-474. (http://www.hpu.edu/Libraries_HPU/Files/TESOL/TQD/VOL_42_3.pdf#page=102) Delete the scoop?
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In this recent TESL-EJ articles, Jarvis and Achilleos review different terminology for connecting technology and SLA (TELL, WELL, NBLL). On the basis of questionnaire data showing EFL users' preferences for mobile technology, they suggest changing two letters in the CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) acronym: Computer becomes Mobile and Learning become Use in MALU (Mobile Assisted Language Use).
The authors conclude that "MALU now needs to be our defining point of reference in keeping TESOL at the vanguard."
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Which I suppose is fine if English is your frame of reference. If the field is to include other languages, it's not so easy to make the argument. Delete the scoop?
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"In celebration and acknowledgement of our field’s maturity, the editors of the CALICO Journal invite submissions of research articles based on replication studies in a CALL context. We issue this invitation early to encourage CALL scholars to conduct replication studies for the CJ issue to be published in January 2015, but also welcome submissions based on studies already underway. The studies may be replications of earlier published studies in CALL or of non-CALL research in a CALL context. We welcome both approximate and conceptual replications from any theoretical perspective or research paradigm. We especially encourage projects that reflect collaboration between senior faculty and graduate students." Delete the scoop?
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Foreword (Ortega & Cumming):
"Currents in Language Learning provides programmatic state-of-the-art overviews of current issues in the language sciences and their applications in first, second, foreign, heritage, and bi/multilingual language acquisition in naturalistic and tutored contexts. […]
In this first issue of Currents in Language Learning, board members and editors consider their own areas of enquiry. […]
The research agendas concern the following areas: - progress and relevance in second language acquisition (Ortega); - Usage-Based Linguistics (Ellis, O’Donnell, & Ro ̈mer); - age effects in language learning (DeKeyser); - second language pragmatics (Bardovi-Harlig); - vocabulary knowledge (Jarvis); - transfer of learning in second language instruction (Larsen-Freeman); - language, literacy, and culture (Cumming); - academic language development in schools (Schleppegrell); - Practice Theory (Young and Astarita); - evolutionary perspectives on language (Schumann).
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Really interesting range of papers from the heavy hitters in North American second language research. Free download, plus podcast version. Delete the scoop?
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A podcast series for ESL/ LINC professionals in Ontario from the LearnIT2teach project
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A number of interviews of important CALL figures, including Ken Beatty, Phil Hubbard, Greg Kessler, Vance Stevens ... Delete the scoop?
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"The Programme section of the site now includes an outline of the programme timings and listings of the presentations in each category: paper, poster, symposia and courseware showcase.
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Interaction and interactivity in technology-rich second language classrooms: the iTILT project in France
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Language Teachingis the essential research resource for language professionals providing a rich and expert overview of research in the field of second-language teaching and learning.
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Lyster, Saito & Sata on oral corrective feedback; Read on vocabulary assessment, and Hyland on writing in higher education. Free PDF download until 31 March. Delete the scoop?
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A web Portal for the fifteen Foreign Language Resource Centers (LRCs), which provides a searchable database to all of the LRC materials, resources, and professional development opportunities.
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Research, teaching and learning materials, and teacher development. Delete the scoop?
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