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Professor Maggie Kubanyiova, CLER Director
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A new approach to enhancing the quality of TESOL research - Dr Taguhi Sahakyan
Dr Taguhi Sahakyan's new proposal for enhancing the quality of research is published in TESOL Quarterly https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.3210. Member checking is one of the key instruments ensuring the quality of qualitative research which is commonly associated with participants' approval of data accuracy. Considering the multiple drawbacks of the traditional member-checking methods, this article presents an alternative...
Dr Laura Grassick leads a new project with Vietnamese language educators exploring culturally responsive pedagogies
Following a British Council UK/Vietnam Season 23 Collaboration Grant Call, Laura Grassick and team (Judith Hanks, along with colleagues from Vietnam National University in Hanoi and University New South Wales in Sydney) have been successful in their application and secured a grant of £20,000 for their one-year project "A Community of Exploratory Practice: Teachers' Developing...
A new study on why revision in academic writing matters - Dr Diana Mazgutova
Dr Diana Mazgutova's open-access article co-authored with Dr Gareth McCray has been published in Emerging Technologies and Writing: Pedagogy and Research special issue of Frontiers in Communication journal. In our exploratory study, we focus on revision as a fundamental part of the writing process that is particularly important in the production of high-quality academic writing. We examine the application...