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Call for Papers - Digital Methodologies in Educational Research. 16-17th May 2013.

Venue: Brockholes Conference Centre in Preston, UK: http://www.brockholes.org/
Invited Speakers: Professor Martin Weller (The Open University, UK) and Stephen Downes (National Research Council, Canada)
Call for papers: 1st December 2012 - 28th February 2013
Abstract submissions to: Dr Michael Thomas (MThomas4@uclan.ac.uk)

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The purpose of this two-day symposium is to develop and support digitally-enabled research across the field of education. By providing a forum for the discussion of digital approaches, the event will enable the exchange of methodologies, ideas, expertise and knowledge and present educational researchers, practitioners and doctoral students with opportunities to develop new networks and share good practice. The use of new digital research methodologies in education is rapidly developing in quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods approaches. Across education digital methods are being used to address new practices related to the changing landscape of research collaboration, observation, analysis and dissemination. As a result of Web 2.0 technologies, educational researchers are also increasingly turning to new approaches to research computer-mediated communication, involving social media, social networks and virtual immersive environments. The symposium will address the key issues related to the Digital Social Research Strategy, particularly in relation to the challenges posed by data collection and analysis in the digital age, including trust and quality, interoperability and data preservation in an educational context. The event is aimed at established as well as early career researchers and postgraduate students.
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Free concordancing software: Laurence Anthony's AntConc

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On the website of Laurence Anthony. Associate Professor at Waseda University Japan developer of AntConc, a freeware concordancer software program for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh OS X

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Used in SGADS (Sensibilité de la Grammaire Anglaise au Degré de Spécialisation) research (Pic, Furmaniak, Debras) at the Sorbonne.  See also June workshop to mark "the end of the SGADS project (Grammatical variation across academic genres), a project founded by the Research Council of the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and coordinated by Elsa Pic and Grégory Furmaniak (http://www.univ-paris3.fr/2012-2013-du-discours-specialise-au-discours-vulgarise-sensibilite-de-la-grammaire-anglaise-au-degre-de-specialisation-140801.kjsp). The aim of the workshop is to present the main results from the project but also to extend the discussion to other related issues." http://linguistlist.org/issues/24/24-1028.html

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Asp : la revue du GERAS (anglais de spécialité)

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"ASp publishes peer-reviewed research articles and reviews related to the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) for both teaching and research. The thematic and non-thematic issues aim to give an insight into the specifics of ESP, notably in its linguistic, discursive, cultural and didactic aspects, and also to develop our knowledge of the various specific English registers used for different purposes."

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I have a paper in Volume 63, but it's not open access:

 

Shona Whyte: Teaching ESP: A task-based framework for French graduate courses

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ESP (English for Specific Purposes)

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Building e-AP Awareness: Steve Kirk

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"I think there are two kinds of e-AP tool: those that connect fairly directly to teaching practice, and those that can help inform, organise and build EAP teacher scholarly knowledge."

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The role of technology in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) - application of the TPACK framework, and call for integration, stability, open practices ...

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Research on teaching vocabulary: Paul Nation

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Paul Nation has a huge number of publications on vocabulary, particularly in relation to second language learning and teaching.  Many of the older articles are available for free download.

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EUR-Lex - Simple search

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This search engine allows you to access the database of European legislation in any EU language and it brings up texts which are available in at least two languages.

 

My colleague Margarita Georgieva who teaches translation at the University of Nice explains:

 

"If you are looking for legislative texts or any specialized texts, there is a database of translations which has both English and French versions - http://eur-lex.europa.eu/
You can search for keywords. From tissue paper to toothpaste and fisheries... anything you think of, they have it.  […] They are great to use in class - to compare translations and suggest improvements or to learn vocabulary."

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Academic Word List exercises: University of Nottingham

Word lists and various useful tools for manipulating texts.


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Nice set of tools and activities for English for Academic Purposes.

Robin Yu's comment, January 16, 7:01 AM
The word lists can be found elsewhere but the highlighter tools and gap-fill maker are unique tools from Nottingham.
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Call for Contributions New Ways in Teaching Business English

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Call for ContributionsNew Ways in Teaching Business English Deadline EXTENDED: 1 June 2013
400-800 words

The volume will adopt the at-a-glance, simple lesson plan format used in other volumes in the New Ways Series (see, e.g., sample pages from New Ways in Teaching Reading).

 

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La lettre du GERAS

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Infolettre du Groupe d'Etude et de Recherche en Anglais de Spécialité.

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Academic English Online (QMUL)

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"Academic English Online is a new web-based resource of materials designed for students of Queen Mary (University of London) to develop and broaden their skills in academic English."


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This looks like a very rich resource suitable for intermediate university learners and above.  Content is divided into Writing, Reading, Speaking and Grammar, and presented in short sections with activities for learners and feedback which can be hidden or revealed.

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Queen Mary's University, London, have now made available for free a set of online EAP resources for supplementary study. These were previously developed and only made availablje internally to QMUL students. The task bank is now open access.

nicolaperry's curator insight, January 23, 5:13 AM

Slightly outside the usual scope of this page but may be useful.

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Appellation(s)/Naming, labelling, addressing: Atelier ASP, SAES Dijon, mai 2013

Dans le cadre du congrès annuel de la SAES, les présidents de l’atelier Anglais de spécialité– GERAS, Anne Magnet de l’Université de Bourgogne et Michel Van der Yeught de l’Université d’Aix-Marseille, lancent un appel à communications sur le thème choisi par l’atelier : « Aspects de l’appellation dans l’expression linguistique du spécialisé – Implications linguistiques, discursives, culturelles et didactiques en anglais de spécialité ».

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Paul Nation's "Vocabulary Profiler"

Paste in a text and it produces an analysis with the words colour-coded for their vocabulary level.


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Robin Yu's comment, January 16, 7:03 AM
A fascinating tool that teachers can use to classify words in any text. Highlights common general English words, academic words etc using different colours.