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Rethinking professional learning for TESOL teachers: What a decade of research reveals

In today’s fast-changing world, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) teachers face mounting pressures – from new technologies to shifting student needs and rising...

SIG Meet & Discuss: Literacy and Language

Join us for our first SIG forum! We warmly invite you to our first Literacy and Language SIG forum where we’ll introduce our plans for the coming year and begin shaping our collective...

The need for a translanguaging stance in school-based research

Introduction Most school-based research is conducted monolingually. But in Northern Ireland, England and international contexts such as Australia, a significant, and increasing, number of school...

½¿É«µ¼º½ and the National Year of Reading

½¿É«µ¼º½ is proud to 'Go All In' and pledge support for the National Year of Reading 2026! This page details some of the initiatives that ½¿É«µ¼º½ has undertaken in the past and present to support...

Beyond bonjour: Why culture belongs in the primary languages curriculum

‘To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world.’ — Chinese proverb Is the English primary languages curriculum in key stage 2 (7-to-11-year-olds) truly...

When language frames the self: Identity landscapes of English medium instruction

Since the Bologna Process in 1999 reshaped the landscape of higher education (HE) in Europe, English medium instruction (EMI) has become a prominent fixture in universities across the continent....

The ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog: Highlights of 2025

½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog end of year highlights

Snow-dusted salutations and tinsel-tinged tidings to all our readers, authors, curators and guest editors around the globe. In this, the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog’s tenth anniversary year, I look back over the...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 167

This opportunity is now closed. ½¿É«µ¼º½â€™s Publications Committee is seeking an individual or team (of up to three people) to guest edit issue 167 of Research Intelligence on the theme of...

How classist is Classics?

In this contribution to this ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog special issue we report the findings of a national survey which investigated how far current demographics of the Classics teaching and learning community...

Literacy and Language SIG Convenor Vacancy

The ½¿É«µ¼º½ Literacy and Language SIG has an opening for a convenor. This SIG aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working in a range of areas related to the development of languages...

½¿É«µ¼º½ Educational Research Book of the Year

This award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and innovative.

The case for acknowledging teacher beliefs for effective multilingualism in primary schools

In today’s globalised world, classrooms are becoming increasingly multilingual. This development calls for a reevaluation of traditional monolingual teaching methods and a move towards...