This issue of our student e-zine comprises six interesting and engaging articles with a rich diversity of topics covered by the authors.

In the first article "Attitude as a Learner Variable in Learning English in Sri Lanka," Jayantha Ratnayake discusses how language learners' differences in attitudes can change the ways and means of learning a language. She shares her experience of language teaching in Sri Lankan context to clarify how language learner's attitude is directly related to their level of motivation. #

The second article is "English as an Additional Language in the UK,"about the UK’s approach to teaching English as an Additional Language (EAL) in state schools, written by James O’Flynn.

The third article is "Languages in Korea: Status, Roles and Attitudes," in which Katie Webb explores the status of English and other languages in South Korea, based on literature and on her experience as a teacher there. #

In our fourth article, "Why and How should Teachers be Encouraged to Take Control of their Own Professional Development?" Betelhem Taye provides input related to teachers’ Continuous Professional Development (CPD), discussing about why and how should teachers take control of their own CPD.

In the fifth article "Developing Mentee’s Identity as a Teacher," Komila Tangirova reflects the role of a teacher as a mentor.

And the final article in this issue is a personal reflection by Betânia Mota Pereira, entitled "Being a Teacher: Challenges and Rewards". She shares some challenges she experienced as an English language teacher, and how she managed to overcome them, reassuring that despite the difficulties, being a teacher is rewarding.

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Education research at Warwick is ranked 3rd best in the country

Staff in the Centre for Applied Linguistics were submitted under the Education unit of assessment, along with others at Warwick who work in the Education field. This combined group of Education researchers performed extremely well in the 2014 REF (Research Excellence Framework). The group were examined for the quality of their research publications, their research environment and the impact of their research. They were ranked 3rd in the UK for the quality of their Education research, taking into account both the grade point average of their ratings and the proportion of eligible staff submitted.

More specifically, the group achieved the following: 32% of their work was judged to be world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour, and 44% was judged to be internationally leading in these respects.

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CAL Staff (Helen Spencer-Oatey, Sophie Reissner-Roubicek and Daniel Dauber), along with colleagues in the International Office (Stephen Williams, Claire O'Leary and Emily Lim) and in the Students' Union (Cathryn Turhan), have won Warwick's Outstanding Team Award for their innovative ‘collaborative triangle’ to address the issue of integration between domestic and international students.

Dominic Scott OBE, Chief Executive, UKCISA said:

"The key to their success has been the collaboration between their academics, their International Office and their Students’ Union as this has ensured the practitioners have taken a research-informed approach. This has been to the benefit of all UK universities and students’ unions as well as to the student experience at Warwick and established Warwick as one of, if not the leading player in this area."

The team have been running a popular Warwick Integration Summit for several years. In 2014 the summit attracted 150 delegates from 63 institutions. The team members wrote a 44-page booklet, published by the UK Council for International Student Affairs (UKCISA). It has been distributed to 550 institutions and has had significant impact.

To learn more about Warwick's Integration Summits and to obtain a free copy of the booklet, click here.