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Congratulations to Dr Rasha Soliman (Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Linguistics & Deputy Head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies) and Sascha Stollhans (Associate Professor of Language Pedagogies & Director of CELT) on the launch of their new Special Interest Group "Pedagogical approaches to language variation", hosted by the Association of University...
Congratulations to Dr Milada (Mille) Walková (Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes), whose edited volume "Linguistic Approaches in English for Academic Purposes - Expanding the Discourse" has just been published with Bloomsbury Publishing! "This edited volume brings together researchers and practitioners who work in various linguistic frameworks and EAP contexts, with contributions from Australia, Canada,...
Call for Papers for a special issue of the journal German as a Foreign Language, edited by Judith Eberharter and Sascha Stollhans English version below Als Lehrende müssen wir stets Entscheidungen darüber treffen, welche Inhalte wir im Unterricht vermitteln – und somit auch, welche wir aus diversen Gründen nicht vermitteln. Welche Rolle spielen kulturelle und...
Congratulations to Karima Gaci, Lecturer in French, on the publication of her recent book chapter, in which she discusses an innovative approach to teaching past participle agreements of pronominal verbs in French. Karima explains: In this chapter, I am focusing on the past participle agreement of pronominal verbs in French, which is an inevitable difficulty...
Congratulations to Dr Rasha Soliman, Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Linguistics & Deputy Head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, and her collaborator Dr Melissa Towler, Postdoctoral Research Assistant, on their recent publication "Principles and Guidelines for Integrating Regional Dialectal Variation in the Arabic Classroom", in collaboration with Qatar Foundation International! Rasha...
Congratulations to Dr Terry Bradford, Senior Lecturer in French/Translation, on the forthcoming publication of his translation of Clémentine Mélois's novel "Otherwise I Forget" (Liverpool University Press, World Writing in French New Archipelagoes)! Clémentine Mélois is a writer, artist, and member of Oulipo. Her first published work, Cent titres (2014), is a cult classic. She has...
Native-speakerism: A Thorn in the Side of ELT Natalia Fedorova, University of Coimbra Kashmir Kaur, University of Leeds Abstract Native-speakerism, as Kumaravadivelu (2016, p. 82) famously noted, is a subject where “seldom in the annals of an academic discipline have so many toiled for so long and achieved so little”. There have been several...
Congratulations to Kashmir Kaur - Lecturer of English for Academic Purposes - for the publication of her paper entitled 'Embed sustainability in the curriculum: transform the world'. The paper is published in Language Learning in Higher Education: Journal of European Confederation of Language Centres in Higher Education (CercleS) and can be access through this link....
Congratulations to Dr Terry Bradford - Senior Lecturer (in French/Translation) - on his recent publication (by Wakefield Press) of his translation of Boris Vian’s Vercoquin et le plancton. Publisher’s description: A nonconformist satire of both bureaucracy and nonconformism from the French polymath and author of Foam of the Days Written at the age of 23...
Polisca E, Stollhans S, Bardot R, Rollet C. 2022. How Covid-19 has changed language assessments in higher education: a practitioners’ view. In: Hampton C; Salin S (eds.) Innovative language teaching and learning at university: facilitating transition from and to higher education. Research-publishing.net, pp. 81-91. http://dx.doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2022.56.1375 This chapter examines the responses of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to assessment-related challenges introduced by the...