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 [...]
Social Authentication and Teacher-Student Motivational Synergy
I am very happy to announce the publication of my 3rd book (4th if you include poetry). This book talks about social authentication, which (following on from van Lier, 1997) is the process when a [...]
Five reasons English speakers struggle to learn foreign languages
ivosar via Shutterstock Michelle Sheehan, Anglia Ruskin University According to a recent survey co-ordinated by the European Commission 80% of European 15-30 year olds can read and write in at least one foreign language. This [...]
AILA
Call for Papers Practitioner Research & Classroom Dynamics: Emic Insights Through a Small Lens Organisers: Richard Pinner and Sal Consoli AILA 2020 World Congress09-14 August | Groningen, NLDeadline : 16th September 2019Notification: 18 November 2019Symposium [...]
Risking authenticity: Energy Return on Investment in Language Teaching
Screen Poster presented at the BAAL 2018 conference, York St John's University, UK| British Association of Applied Linguists Abstract Studies repeatedly show one of the most crucial factors affecting student motivation is the teacher. Teacher [...]
The 1st J-CLIL Annual Bilingual Conference: CLIL pedagogy for multilingual and multicultural contexts
Authenticity and motivation in soft CLIL 2018 J-CLILPinner_authenticity Short Abstract This talk discusses materials in CLIL, specifically looking at the issue of authenticity, which is often a defining aspect of the CLIL approach. Authenticity connects [...]
