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• National Languages – Global Markets | Tomorrow's Professor Postings

  Excerpt from Chapter 1, The Politics of Language (Phipps & Gonzalez, 2004) Phipps, Alison, and Gonzalez, Mike. (2004). Modern Languages: Learning and Teaching in an Intercultural Field. London, UK: Sage Publications.

  tags: communities cultural hegemony countries cultures diversity education languages languaging literacy modern languages nation-states

  • powerful languages of the world may express national identities, or they may be the medium for the expression of other collective identities distinct from or even in conflict with the nation
  • Absorption and incorporation may be the preferred option for the powerful; for others – the majority, we suspect – the plurality and diversity of human expression, even within the world’s most powerful languages, is what the intercultural approach, moving from language learning to languaging, can both celebrate and encourage
  • It is therefore our task in the next chapter to begin to discover a way forward, to find theory and method sufficient to the task of creating critical dispositions for languaging and being intercultural

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• A Global Approach to Teaching Phrasal Verbs | EFL Magazine

  "The good news is that phrasal verbs are one of the easiest aspects of English, provided you can get your students to make the necessary mind shift. Unlike Latinate vocabulary, as components of a flexible system, they can be GENERATED. It is thanks to their potential ambiguity that they can be used so creatively, forming much of the basis of English humour" (¶7).

  tags: approach grammar movement teaching resources TPR verbs visualization

• TESOL Quarterly Research Guidelines | Ahmar Mahboob, Sue Starfield, and Peter De Costa - Academia.edu

  "This article provides research guidelines for authors intending to sub-mit their manuscripts to TESOL Quarterly. These guidelines includeinformation about the TESOL Quarterly review process, advice on converting a dissertation into a research article, broad introductions to a number of research methods, and a section on research ethics." (Abstract)

  tags: academic writing editing formatting guidelines journals publication venues for publication

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• Japanese English Teachers' Increasing Use of English | JALT Publications

  Murphey, T., & Sasaki, T. (1998). Japanese English teachers' increasing use of English. The Language Teacher, 22(10), 21-24, 30. http://jalt-publications.org/tlt/articles/2380-japanese-english-teachers-increasing-use-english

  tags: education English English education English teaching high school Japan Japanese teachers of English JTEs junior high school Ministry of Education

• Academic Publishing: Suggestions from a Journal Editor | JALT Publications

  tags: academic writing advice JALT journals manuscript preparation manuscript revision publications publishing review processes TLT venues for publication

• Advice for Writers: An Interview With Sandra McKay | JALT Publications

  "This is the second article in a two-part series dealing with writing for publication."

  tags: academic writing advice interviews JALT publication TLT venues for publication

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