I'm looking forward to discussing this motion with Lina Mukhopadhyay of EFL University, India at the #IATEFL2026 ELTJ debate chaired by Alessia Cogo! More conference details here: www.iateflconference.org

Glad to see a review of David B. Wilson's _The Experience of Expatriate English Language Teaching_ today - Wayne Trotman in EL Gazette says "anyone who has ever taught English overseas will love it"! Let's hope there's a paperback soon! cambridgescholars.com/product/978-...

I really like this new book by David B. Wilson for its fresh approach to the history of english language teaching via 'literary TEFLing' www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-.... You can read sample pages here: www.cambridgescholars.com/resources/pd...

The Makerere Report is one of those frequently cited documents that most only know indirectly (e.g. through criticism in R. Phillipson’s Linguistic Imperialism). Huge thanks to @richardsmithelt.bsky.social for making the full document available in the ELT Archive ⬇️ warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/r...

Vanita Chopra and Sidney Martin reflect in this feature on the recent Teachers Research! Online 2025 conference: mentrnet.net/teachers-res.... Records of previous conferences are here: resig.weebly.com/teachers-res...

Challenges in Mentoring Teacher-Research, and How to Overcome Them' - slides and handouts for the workshop Ana Garcia-Stone and I gave at the IATEFL 2025 conference in Edinburgh: warwick.ac.uk/richardcsmit...

Why – and how to – incorporate practitioner research into language teacher education? Two responses here: 1) Recording of an inspiring session on preservice teacher education: youtu.be/VTEwv0wFVXo?... 2) A short article I wrote for the British Council: www.teachingenglish.org.uk/professional...

Video of Saturday's Celebration of MenTRnet (an international community of mentors of teacher-research) / Launch of two publications - now YouTubed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTde.... More info.: mentrnet.net/a-celebratio...

A new blog post on school improvement through mentoring Exploratory Action Research, by Sirin Soyoz and Ghazala Sajjad: mentrnet.net/school-impro... – talking about their involvement with the British Council’s Action Research mentoring initiatives in Partner Schools.

Upcoming event in the International Festival of Mentoring Teacher-Research in ELT 2024-25. Further information and registration: mentrnet.net/integrating-...

Summary of a MenTRnet discussion exploring potential roles of AI in teacher-research mentoring: action-research.ai/exploring-po...

#edtech #MenTRnet @IATEFLResig @Ernesto_AppLing #ReSIG @richardsmithelt.bsky.social Teachers research around the globe 👇🏻 resig.weebly.com/teachers-res...

All are welcome to this online introduction / celebration of MenTRnet - an international network for mentors of teacher-research mentrnet.net – and the launch of two publications! mentrnet.net/a-celebratio... - an event in the International Festival of Mentoring Teacher-Research in ELT

Just published: _Paul Passy: Un linguiste révolutionnaire_ by Jacques Durand and Chantal Lyche @hiphilangsci.bsky.social @holltnet.bsky.social Passy (1859–1940) founded the International Phonetic Association (IPA) and was a leader of language teaching reform warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/r...

Delighted that Archive on 4: Do You Speak English? is a Radio Times @radiotimes.bsky.social Pick of the Week. So many World Service gems uncovered including China’s Follow Me. Radio 4, Saturday at 20:00

Warwick ELT Archive page warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/r... - information about English by TV programmes (1960s–1980s), and links to YouTube videos If you're in the UK, there is a radio documentary (11.1.25) – #DoYouSpeakEnglish? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... - about BBC English by radio and TV

#MenTRnet #TeacherResearch @IATEFLResig African teacher-researchers 👉🏻 register for this conference tomorrow (Saturday 11th January)! 1pm GMT onwards Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @Ernesto_AppLing @RichardSmithELT

A new blog-post from the Warwick ELT Archive, by Yi Zhang, who, with Xi Li, has been leading in the compilation of these bibliographies and the catalogue of a developing collection of Chinese textbooks for English: blogs.warwick.ac.uk/elt_archive/...

A Japanese translation of A Handbook for Exploratory Action Research by Richard Smith and P. Rebolledo has just been published: mentrnet.net/japanese-tra...

Teaching some Old English again - this came at just the right time (thanks @helontheweb.bsky.social!) See Colin Gorrie's first (Direct Method) lesson here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZhl.... I also use Old English (Eald Englisc) with Leofwin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz0n...

Warwick ELT Archive December newsletter – 2024 in review! blogs.warwick.ac.uk/files/elt_ar...

A new Open Access publication - 20 reader-friendly stories of teacher-research mentoring from around the world! resig.weebly.com/uploads/2/6/...

Video of the most recent International Festival of Mentoring Teacher-Research event: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L6F... This webinar provided insights from organizers and mentors of the SCERT-Delhi teacher-research initiative. Further information: mentrnet.net/mentoring-te...

Coming up - this Saturday, with ELTons 'Outstanding Achievement' Award winner Professor Rama Mathew and mentors from SCERT-Delhi mentrnet.net/mentoring-te...

December 14th event in the International Festival of Mentoring Teacher-Research in ELT (2024-25). More info and registration here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Featuring mentors for the SCERT-Delhi initiative, introduced by Prof. Rama Mathew Festival website: mentrnet.net/festival/

MenTRnet (mentrnet.net) has supported the journey of this journal so far, and will continue to do so! Congratulations to editor Robert Dickey and asociate editor Eli Békés for this achievement!

#ELT #languages

Congratulations Rama Mathew -- good to see recogntion for her work in India, Bangladesh, Sierra Leone as a dedicated mentor and educational leader, with an 'Outstanding Achievement award' at the British Council ELTons this year.

A richly deserved 'Outstanding Achievement' award for Rod Bolitho at yesterday's British Council ELTons Awards Ceremony!

Basking in reflected glory, accompanying Elena Oncevska-Ager to yesterday's British Council 2024 ELTons awards ceremony (here with Alan Maley, too). Elena won the 2024 Award for Innovation in Use of Technology with Matthew Ager for the AI mentoring app 'Noticing' about.noticing.network

Congratulations to 'Noticing'! Hear more about it on 22 February 2025, 1.00–2.30pm (UTC) in ‘Using AI to help mentor teacher inquiry’ – a webinar led by Elena Oncevska-Ager, Matthew Ager, Sirin Soyoz and Richard Smith. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Oooh, this sounds exciting, will definitely take a closer look!

Thanks to The Language Scholar team @leedsteaching.bsky.social @albadelpozo.bsky.social for publishing this timely special issue on 'Developing Contexts of Scholarship', including an article co-written with my colleague Valentina Abbatelli (grazie 🙂) languagescholar.leeds.ac.uk/a-roadmap-to...

The Winner of the 2024 ELTons Award for Innovation in Use of Technology has just been announced online, and the judges made a great choice: The Winner is ... "Noticing". about.noticing.network A creative use of AI that empowers rather than deskills teachers. www.britishcouncil.org/english-asse...

At this latest event in the International Festival of Mentoring Teacher-Research in ELT (2024/25), five teachers who had engaged in teacher-research described their journeys to becoming mentors of Exploratory Action Research by/for other teachers. Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/oZJohJpcGI0?...

A Handbook for Exploratory Action Research - bit.ly/handbook-EAR - for teachers in challenging situations

these ‘travel writings’ from the 17-1800s provide rich insight into how British colonisers and ‘explorers’ perceived and described the languages of Indigenous communities in sub-human ways - often as sounding more like animals than humans. found this collection in my local charity shop today.

Open Access resources from the Warwick ELT Archive: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/r... Hoping to add activities for teacher education in the coming year.

Nueva publicación: monográfico dedicado a Historia de la enseñanza y aprendizaje del español de la Revista Internacional de Lenguas Extranjeras (2024, n.° 21), coord. Miguel Ángel Puche Lorenzo #histlx revistes.urv.cat/index.php/ri...

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Upcoming events in the International Festival of Mentoring Teacher-Research in ELT: mentrnet.net/festival/. Next event: 14 December, 1.00–2.30pm (UTC): 'Mentoring teacher-research as a local educational authority initiative' – webinar on the SCERT Delhi initiative in India w/ Professor Rama Mathew.

'Re-viewing histories of language teaching: a foundation for present practice?' Video of my keynote back in June for ARDAA at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris youtube.com/live/UCc0ciU... Links and slides here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/p...