Past IATEFL Conference Re-SIG Events
IATEFL Research SIG Pre-Conference Event in Glasgow on 3 April 2017
Researching ELT History: A Hands-on Workshop
Researching ELT History: A Hands-on Workshop
This one-day event aims to show how uncovering ELT history can provide useful new perspectives, both for our own professional practice and for the field more generally.
From an initial focus on participants' language learning and professional histories, we will consider broader historical findings in order to better situate ourselves as individuals and as a profession. On this basis, we will consider historiographical issues relating to the fallibility of memory and 'folk memory' and the reliability or otherwise of different kinds of secondary and primary sources.
There will be input on and practice in historical methods, with a particular focus on hands-on activities relating to oral history, textbook history and use of documents. The day-long workshop (led by Richard Smith and Friederike Klippel) will be of interest and use to practising teachers and teacher educators as well as to students currently researching their own topics, historical or otherwise.
Further information here
About the workshop leaders:
Richard Smith is a Reader in ELT & Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, where he teaches and supervises MA and PhD students. He founded the Warwick ELT Archive in 2002 and has published widely in the field of history of language learning and teaching, besides other areas. He was the coordinator of IATEFL Research SIG from 2011 to 2015 and is a founder and co-convenor of the AILA Research Network on History of Language Learning and Teaching (http://hollt.net). His recent articles include ‘Building applied linguistic historiography’ (Applied Linguistics) and, with A.P.R. Howatt, ‘The history of teaching English as a foreign language, from a British and European perspective’ (Language and History). He recently completed a history of IATEFL with Shelagh Rixon (to be published in 2017 to mark IATEFL's 50th anniversary) and he is currently working on a history of the 19th century Reform Movement with Friederike Klippel.
Friederike Klippel is currently Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna, having held the Chair of English Language Education (ELT/TESOL) at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich from 1994 to 2015 after her PhD (1979) and her postdoc degree (1992) at Dortmund University (Germany). She has published on a wide range of aspects concerning English language teaching and language teacher education. She was editor of Englisch (1997–2006),ForumSprache (2008–2012) and edits the monograph series Muenchener Arbeiten zur Fremdsprachenforschung MAFF (34 volumes from 2000 to 2016, Muenster: Waxmann). To date she has supervised 25 completed PhDs (eight on historical topics), and three post-doc qualifications (Habilitation). Her research areas include the history of language teaching, language teaching methodology, classroom research, intercultural education, teacher education and professional development.
Register here.
From an initial focus on participants' language learning and professional histories, we will consider broader historical findings in order to better situate ourselves as individuals and as a profession. On this basis, we will consider historiographical issues relating to the fallibility of memory and 'folk memory' and the reliability or otherwise of different kinds of secondary and primary sources.
There will be input on and practice in historical methods, with a particular focus on hands-on activities relating to oral history, textbook history and use of documents. The day-long workshop (led by Richard Smith and Friederike Klippel) will be of interest and use to practising teachers and teacher educators as well as to students currently researching their own topics, historical or otherwise.
Further information here
About the workshop leaders:
Richard Smith is a Reader in ELT & Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, where he teaches and supervises MA and PhD students. He founded the Warwick ELT Archive in 2002 and has published widely in the field of history of language learning and teaching, besides other areas. He was the coordinator of IATEFL Research SIG from 2011 to 2015 and is a founder and co-convenor of the AILA Research Network on History of Language Learning and Teaching (http://hollt.net). His recent articles include ‘Building applied linguistic historiography’ (Applied Linguistics) and, with A.P.R. Howatt, ‘The history of teaching English as a foreign language, from a British and European perspective’ (Language and History). He recently completed a history of IATEFL with Shelagh Rixon (to be published in 2017 to mark IATEFL's 50th anniversary) and he is currently working on a history of the 19th century Reform Movement with Friederike Klippel.
Friederike Klippel is currently Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna, having held the Chair of English Language Education (ELT/TESOL) at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich from 1994 to 2015 after her PhD (1979) and her postdoc degree (1992) at Dortmund University (Germany). She has published on a wide range of aspects concerning English language teaching and language teacher education. She was editor of Englisch (1997–2006),ForumSprache (2008–2012) and edits the monograph series Muenchener Arbeiten zur Fremdsprachenforschung MAFF (34 volumes from 2000 to 2016, Muenster: Waxmann). To date she has supervised 25 completed PhDs (eight on historical topics), and three post-doc qualifications (Habilitation). Her research areas include the history of language teaching, language teaching methodology, classroom research, intercultural education, teacher education and professional development.
Register here.
IATEFL ReSIG Pre-Conference Event, Birmingham 2016
Conversations with a purpose: Reflecting on interviewing in EFL research
Conversations with a purpose: Reflecting on interviewing in EFL research
Date: Tuesday 12th April 2016
Time: 10:00-17:00
Event short videos
• Do you use interviews in your research?
• What challenges have you faced planning for and managing interview interaction?
• What different approaches are possible within EFL research interviews?
• How many interviews do I need to undertake and do I have to transcribe them all?
Dr Steve Mann from the University of Warwick will lead an interactive day on the use of interviews in EFL research. During the course of the day, you will have the opportunity to raise and discuss your issues relating to the use of interviews in your data collection. Steve will assist participants in the development of an interview approach and set of questions, which we will then use for a live interview with Graham Hall about his experience of the EFL research field.
The day aims to give participants a stronger understanding of the use of interviews in the EFL context and hands-on experience of different interview approaches, which a researcher might take. It will also demonstrate the value of reflective practice and reflexivity in the analysis and representation of data.
Date: Tuesday 12th April 2016
Time: 10:00-17:00
Event short videos
• Do you use interviews in your research?
• What challenges have you faced planning for and managing interview interaction?
• What different approaches are possible within EFL research interviews?
• How many interviews do I need to undertake and do I have to transcribe them all?
Dr Steve Mann from the University of Warwick will lead an interactive day on the use of interviews in EFL research. During the course of the day, you will have the opportunity to raise and discuss your issues relating to the use of interviews in your data collection. Steve will assist participants in the development of an interview approach and set of questions, which we will then use for a live interview with Graham Hall about his experience of the EFL research field.
The day aims to give participants a stronger understanding of the use of interviews in the EFL context and hands-on experience of different interview approaches, which a researcher might take. It will also demonstrate the value of reflective practice and reflexivity in the analysis and representation of data.
IATEFL ReSIG Pre-Conference Event: Developing as a Researcher
Date: 10 April 2015
Location: Manchester, UK
'Developing as a Researcher’ will be a special day dedicated to participants' own unfolding narratives of development, with supportive insights from Sue Garton, David Nunan and Cynthia White. It is Research SIG's Pre-conference Event, the day before the main IATEFL conference begins in Manchester.
Date: 10 April 2015
Location: Manchester, UK
'Developing as a Researcher’ will be a special day dedicated to participants' own unfolding narratives of development, with supportive insights from Sue Garton, David Nunan and Cynthia White. It is Research SIG's Pre-conference Event, the day before the main IATEFL conference begins in Manchester.
IATEFL ReSIG-supported one-day workshop: Doing Good Quality ELT Research
Research SIG Day at the IATEFL Conference in Harrogate
Date: 2 April 2014
Location: Harrogate, UK
'Teachers Research!’ will be a special day dedicated to research by teachers for teachers, with supportive insights from Dick Allwright and Anne Burns. It is Research SIG's Pre-conference Event, the day before the main IATEFL conference begins in Harrogate.
Further details
Selected presentations all in the same room on the first day of the IATEFL conference, together with our annual 'Open Forum'
Date: 2 April 2014
Location: Harrogate, UK
'Teachers Research!’ will be a special day dedicated to research by teachers for teachers, with supportive insights from Dick Allwright and Anne Burns. It is Research SIG's Pre-conference Event, the day before the main IATEFL conference begins in Harrogate.
Further details
Selected presentations all in the same room on the first day of the IATEFL conference, together with our annual 'Open Forum'
IATEFL Research SIG Pre-Conference Event Liverpool 2013
Researching Professional Talk (2013 Research SIG Pre-Conference Event)
Date: 8 April 2013
Presenters: Steve Walsh (Newcastle University) and Steve Mann (Warwick University)
Location: Liverpool, UK
Further details
Book a place via the overall IATEFL conference booking form
There is a scholarship opportunity for Research SIG members.
Date: 8 April 2013
Presenters: Steve Walsh (Newcastle University) and Steve Mann (Warwick University)
Location: Liverpool, UK
Further details
Book a place via the overall IATEFL conference booking form
There is a scholarship opportunity for Research SIG members.
RESEARCH SIG Day at the IATEFL Conference in Liverpool
Date: THURSDAY 11 APRIL, 2013
Location: Hall 11a & Hall 3a
Programme includes:
Check out the full programme here!
Why not stay with us for the whole day?!
Date: THURSDAY 11 APRIL, 2013
Location: Hall 11a & Hall 3a
Programme includes:
- Introducing IRIS: a free, online resource for language teaching research
- Investigating the impact of action research: an Australian case study
- Using mixed methods to explore ‘ecologies of schooling’
- Language learning histories in teaching, learning and research
- Research SIG Open Forum
- Combining teaching, learning and research: an exploratory practice approach
- Growing as researchers: insider/outsider perspectives at work
- Mobigam: language on the move in Gujarat
Check out the full programme here!
Why not stay with us for the whole day?!
IATEFL Research SIG Pre-Conference Event Glasgow 2012
Pre-Conference Event: How to Combine Teaching and Researching: Focus on Learners and Classroom Language Learning
Date: 19 March 2012 (10am to 5pm)
Presenters: Ema Ushioda, Richard Smith and Sarah Mercer
Location: Glasgow, UK.
Scholarship: Tahar Asses, a secondary school teacher from Algeria, was awarded the Research SIG scholarship to attend this event.
Further details and resources from the event on our blog.
Date: 19 March 2012 (10am to 5pm)
Presenters: Ema Ushioda, Richard Smith and Sarah Mercer
Location: Glasgow, UK.
Scholarship: Tahar Asses, a secondary school teacher from Algeria, was awarded the Research SIG scholarship to attend this event.
Further details and resources from the event on our blog.