Duolingo’s New Chess Feature: A Great Opportunity for CLIL!
Reading Time: 2 minutesDuolingo's new Chess feature sadly misses an opportunity to give you authenticity of purpose in your language study.
September 2025
June 2023
Memes and EFL Learners
I attended JALT CALL 2023 in the beautiful city of [...]
August 2018
Risking authenticity: Energy Return on Investment in Language Teaching
Screen Poster presented at the BAAL 2018 conference, York St [...]
August 2017
Using and Adapting Authentic Materials to Help Motivate Students
To those who attended the 2017 workshop entitles Using and Adapting [...]
January 2017
International Symposium on Language, Autonomy and Motivation in Toyama
The Future of Foreign Language Education in a Global World: [...]
July 2016
Authenticity 2.0
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs language use today moves increasingly into digital fora - social media, social networking and so on, accompanied by an internationalisation of the language most associated with the Internet, English, the concept of 'authenticity' in the context of language samples and language use becomes ever more evasive.
May 2016
Reconceptualising Authenticity for English as a Global Language
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis book examines the concept of authentic English in today’s world, where cultures are in constant interaction and the English language works as a binding agent for many cross-cultural exchanges. It offers a comprehensive review of decades of debate around authenticity in language teaching and learning and attempts to synthesise the complexities by presenting them as a continuum.
June 2015
CAES Faces of English Paper Presentation
Using self-assessment to maintain motivation in a dynamic classroom environment [...]
Authenticity Poster, CAES Faces of English, Hong Kong
The Social and Individual Flow of Authenticity Authenticity in the [...]
January 2015
Self-Assessment and The Tao
Happy New Year for 2015! It was a nice surprise [...]
