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A presentation we gave this summer for ELLRA, the Early Language Learning Research Association, currrently headed by Sandie Mourao, at an event organised by Carolyn Leslie. Their recent book Researching Educational Practices, Teacher Education and Professional Development for Early Language Learning with Taylor and Francis has a number of open access chapters. Prepared and delivered with…

Innovation in EFL in higher education: key issues from Shona Whyte

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Converging trends from Shona Whyte Converging trends? Cultures of teaching and learning in English for Specific Purposes in the UK and France  In this talk I examine links between the development of English for specific purposes (ESP) teaching and learning in the UK and in France in the latter part of the twentieth century, a period described by Swales (2013: 137) as a “golden age” for applied…

#eurocall2022 talk on virtual scenarios in primary school #EFL live in Asgarthur in 15 minutes

This is our EuroCALL 2022 presentation from Friday 19 August: co-authors S Whyte, C Wigham, N Younès and C Redondo. There’s a 20 minute video here

EuroCALL 2022 presentation on spacing in L2 learning

This is a EuroCALL 2022 presentation by myself with Amanda Edmonds, Katerina Palasis and Emilie Gerbier (BCL, Université Côte d’Azur) on 18 August 2022. Here is the five-minute pitch: And the pre-recorded video can be accessed here. References Ellis, N. C. (1995). The psychology of foreign language vocabulary acquisition: Implications for CALL. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 8,…

Instructed SLA: Long (2017) Part 1

ELT Research Bites 2017-12-25 Should teacher be consumers or producers of research? Recent months have seen lively debate on the links between research on language learning on one hand, and language teaching on the other: Geoff Jordan has argued that the research which informs language teaching should come from cognitive SLA  rather than sociocultural models and critical sociological…

The dirty dozen: key terms in DDL and SLA

The dirty dozen: bridging gaps between la didactique des langues and second language studies in 12 key terms. Paper presented at AILA international congress, August 2021 This paper takes an epistemological perspective on differences in foreign and second language (L2) teaching research in English and French. L2 studies, long a central subfield of applied linguistics in the English-speaking…

ONELA: French applied linguistics conference

Instrumentation and New Explorations in Applied Linguistics Conference in Toulouse, October 2021 Plenaries Watch the recordings: https://webtv.univ-rouen.fr/channels/#onela2021 Read the abstracts: Béatrice Daille: TAL et linguistique outillée François Grin: Naviguer entre les disciplines : l’expérience de l’observatoire économie-langues-formation Bryan Smith: Technology-enhanced language…

Languages in higher education teaching

Bibliographie Breen, M. (1987). Learner contribution to the task design. In C. N. Candlin & D. Murphy (Eds.),Language learning tasks (Vol. 7, pp. 23–46). London: Prentice-Hall International. Cutrim Schmid, E. & Cvetkovic, A. 2016, Digitale Medien im Englischunterricht der Grundschule. In: Peschel, M. & Irion, T. (Ed) Neue Medien in der Grundschule 2.0. Frankfurt: Grundschulverband, 178…

Using YouTube Studio and Excel for editing video

In these times of distance education and online communication, many of us are spending more time making videos, perhaps for online teaching, conferences, or projects. We’re making powerpoints with sound and video, interviewing colleagues via Zoom, or stitching together clips from different sources. And there’s often pressure to to edit videos down from longer formats into something short and…

SHOUT4HE ebooks: higher education teaching with technology

The SHOUT4HE team is producing a set of ebooks drawing on different aspects of technology-mediated teaching in higher education contexts highlighted in this Erasmus+ project. The three books focus on the project’s recognition framework, which allows teachers to situate and reflect on their own practice along pedagogical and technological dimensionsthe video practice examples recorded by…

“Le CECR 2.0 suisse” : Autour du volume complémentaire

Frédérique Longuet et Claude Springer ont publié un livre Autour du CECR – Volume complémentaire (2018) : médiation et collaboration (2021) sur le volume complémentaire du CECRL Cet ouvrage est en accès libre. Résumé Le CECR/CV 2018 annonce une mise en question de certaines certitudes didactiques jugées dépassées voire erronées. La nécessité d’une rupture didactique s’est concrétisée au cours…

Numérique et enseignement-apprentissage des langues : Journée d’étude CLA-ALSIC 2021

Autour du numérique en langues Les vidéos de la journée sont désormais disponible sur la chaîne YouTube du Centre de Linguistique Appliquée de l’Université de Franche-Comté. Communications Franck Amadieu (Université de Toulouse) – Vers une meilleure pédagogie pour un numérique plus utile Luc Massou (Université de Lorraine) – Usage pédagogique des ressources éducatives libres (REL) : quelles…

Autour de la variation en français langue seconde : Henry Tyne

Soutenance d’habitation à diriger des recherches en linguistique générale, jeudi 8 avril 2021 Henry Tyne (Perpignan) Jury J Delahaie (Lille), C Perez-Vidal (Barcelona), Jan Goes (Artois), J-M Mangiante (Artois), C Cavalla (Paris) Résumé Mes travaux de recherche, traitant de domaines et de données parfois assez différents, mettent en avant des notions clés en lien avec l’étude du langage,…

Théorie et pratiques de l’interaction dans la communication médiée par ordinateur

Le contexte sanitaire que nous connaissons met en lumière un besoin plus urgent que jamais de savoirs et compétences dans le domaine de l’enseignement-apprentissage des langues avec les technologies. Dans cette communication, je prends comme point de départ la notion d’interaction, notion retrouvée à la fois en didactique des langues (DDL) et en acquisition des langues secondes (AL2) d’une part,…