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Laurent Ahishakiye has had an article published by IATEFL.
The article is based on his presentation at the IATEFL 2024 conference in Brighton titled "Promoting ELT bottom-up teacher CPD: a case of CoPs in Rwanda." It recounts a success story of a teacher professional development initiative developed and implemented by members of the Association of Teachers of English in Rwanda, which used a bottom-up approach to decentre ELT in an under-resourced context through communities of practice. For more details, you can visit https://www.iatefl.org/resources/iatefl-conference-selections2024-printed-edition.
Annamaria Pinter is giving an Opening Keynote talk
Annamaria Pinter is giving an Opening Keynote talk for the joint PCE at IATEFL 2025 In Edinburgh (the YLT SIG, the Global SIG and the Research SIG). The title of the talk is ‘Researching Social Justice in Young Learners Classrooms’.
Emma Darbyshire will be joining on the 17 February
Emma will take up the post as Course Administration Officer, managing the admin teams for both Applied Linguistics and Education Studies. Emma will be joining us from WMG and will be taking over from Katie Barlow, who leaves at the end of February. Please do come and introduce yourself to Emma!
Paul Chilton has written a book ‘Brexitspeak: Demagoguery and the Decline of Democracy’
This was published in November 2024 and is available to purchase here.
Tony Liddicoat delivered a keynote lecture
A living curriculum as policy for languages education: towards a plurilingual and intercultural orientation/Un curriculum vivant comme politique d'enseignement des langues : vers une orientation plurilingue et interculturelle (Keynote lecture, with Angela Scarino) IALIC 2024: Towards a plurilingual curriculum: fostering pluricultural communication in the digital age. (28-30 November, 2024) Bordeaux, France.
Yvette Wang has been awarded a seed fund by WIHEA
Together with Dr Zi Wang (Student Opportunity) and Sara Hattersley (Academic Development Centre project proposal). The seed fund is for a GTA professional development entitled ‘Intercultural insight: Reflective practices for GTAs’.