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 [...]
Is it all about the now? Authenticity and Currency
How do time and authenticity interact It has been a long time since I wrote about authenticity… or at least it feels like it anyway. In truth I have a few chapters which aren’t even [...]
WEBINAR: Humanising Language Research Through the Complexity Lens
6th March 202110 AM to 1130 UTCFind your time zone(http://bit.ly/362zeA2) Speakers: Ema UshiodaRichard J. SampsonRichard S. Pinner In this 90-minute Webinar, participants will be able to join in a discussion about how complexity perspectives to [...]
Virtual Laboratory: Authenticity and Metacognition
Recently I was invited to contribute to the Virtual Laboratory on Cognitive Approaches to L2 Instruction by the Universities of Heidelberg and Kent. It's always nice to be given an invitation, and of course I [...]
