Online discussions of selected articles from Language Teaching

We're pleased to announce - and encourage you to participate in - a series of research-related online discussions open to members and non-members of the IATEFL Research SIG alike. Cambridge University Press has been supporting this series by making selected articles from the journal Language Teaching freely available to all during the periods they are discussed. You will receive others' views automatically and can respond to them if you are already a member of our Yahoo! Group.

Everyone interested is invited to join our Yahoo! Group and the discussions for free here, whether or not you are a member if the IATEFL Research SIG).

Past discussions (see below) can be viewed on the Research SIG Yahoo!Group site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/resig/

Upcoming Discussions

March 2013: 'Own-language use in language teaching and learning’
Dates: 18 - 29 March
Article: 'Own-language use in language teaching and learning’, by Graham Hall and Guy Cook
Guest moderator: Graham Hall

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Past Discussions

July 2012: 'Review of developments in research into English as a Lingua Franca'
Dates: 9 - 20 July
Article: 'Review of developments in research into English as a Lingua Franca', by Jennifer Jenkins, Alessia Cogo and Martin Dewey
Guest moderator(s): Will Baker, Alessia Cogo and Martin Dewey
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May 2012: 'Materials development for language learning and teaching'
Dates:  21 May - 1 June 
Article: 'Materials development for language learning and teaching ', by Brian Tomlinson
Guest Moderator: John Gray
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February 2012: 'Second language acquisition, teacher education and language pedagogy'
Date: 20-24 February 2012
Article: 'Second language acquisition, teacher education and language pedagogy ', by Rod Ellis
Guest Moderator: Miroslaw Pawlak
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January 2012: 'Research into practice: Vocabulary'
Date: 16-20 January 2012
Article: 'Research into practice: Vocabulary', by Paul Nation
Guest Moderator: Anthony Bruton
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December 2011: 'Language teacher research engagement'
Date: 12-16 December 2011
Article: 'Language teacher research engagement', by Simon Borg
Guest Moderator: Simon Borg
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