Do you Still Need to Study English now that we have AI?
Open Campus Lecture: Authenticity and Artificial Intelligence (AI) A demo lecture by Richard Pinner held at Sophia University's Yotsuya Campus on 02/08/24 11:30-12:15 This 45-minute lecture in English will look at the issues of Authenticity [...]
AuthenticAIty: Where do we go from here?
Check here for a summary of my plenary talk from the ELTRIA 2024 Conference held in May at the beautiful city of Barcelona . https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/45YoAIFMKAR0GX?hostedIn=slideshare&page=upload After the talk I will upload another version with the [...]
ELTRIA, Barcelona, May 2024
In a few days I will be presenting at the ELT Research in Action Conference in the amazing city of Barcelona!!! Here is the program https://issuu.com/jessbcn/docs/eltria_brochure_8e0d588ae27d75 My talk, entitled "AuthenticAIty: Where do we go from [...]
BAAL 2023: Broadening the Horizons of Applied Linguistics
56th Annual Conference Wednesday 23rd August – Friday 25th August 2023, The University of York Teaching as Research: A Case in Practice Whilst a great deal of research within the teaching research nexus is done [...]
Memes and EFL Learners
I attended JALT CALL 2023 in the beautiful city of Kumamoto, and gave a presentation entitled "Me and My Memes: EFL students’ memes and their role in participatory culture." Abstract Memes are the “lingua franca” [...]
Cratylus and maintaining a complex sense of cinnamon: A reply to Pallotti (2021)
Abstract Complexity perspectives have been proposed as a way of underpinning more nuanced, contextualized understandings for second language research and pedagogy. Notwithstanding, persistent voices maintain critical flaws in such an application. This article provides a [...]
AILA2021 World Congress Symposium – Practitioner Research & Classroom Dynamics
Emic Insights Through a Small Lenshttps://aila2021.dryfta.com/program/program/106/s116-practitioner-research-and-classroom-dynamics-emic-insights-through-a-small-lens Hello and thank you for coming to the symposium at AILA2021 about Practitioner Research. If you didn't pay the (astronomical) fees for the conference, don't worry - our symposium [...]
Humanising Language Research Through the Complexity Lens (Webinar)
In this Webinar, Ema Ushioda, Richard Sampson and Richard Pinner discuss the issues surrounding Complexity Theory and conducting research on language learning and teaching. In this 90-minute Webinar, Ema Ushioda, Richard Sampson and Richard Pinner [...]
