At the AAAL conference in Toronto a couple of years ago, I gave a talk with Matt Prior on positioning analysis and small stories, and later on, served as a discussant for Gabi Kasper and Steve Ross‘s colloquium entitled Inside Knowledge Production in Applied Linguistics: Research Methods in Interaction. The talk I did with Matt, […]
Continue reading what’s wrong with conversation analysis?witness the emergence of a new genre in applied linguistics: the self-congratulatory, self-celebratory research article.
Continue reading self-hagiography: a new genreIn linguistic ethnographic work, close analyses of discourses frequently elaborate particular moments in the social order of a given cultural world. In more critically oriented iterations, these close analyses can be used to illuminate moments in social life when resistance, or hegemony, or discrimination occur.
Continue reading moving beyond the dominant in critical discourse analysis: six questions for studentsMy daughter (a 7th grader in a Vancouver public school) and I are currently spending our evenings at several area high schools getting information on their “mini school” programs: 30 member cohorts from Grades 8-12 that depending on the program, focus on digital immersion, leadership, accelerated math and science, drama, sports, etc. We are currently […]
Continue reading mini schools in vancouver: ELLs need not applyThe BCTESOL PSA had many highlights today, including the terrific workshop on functional approaches to English language development! One thing that unfortunately got communicated during the day was the suggestion that ELL teachers implement an “English Only” policy in their classrooms (a form of linguicism).
Continue reading #BCTESOL PSA Oct 2015May 4-8 is apparently Teacher Appreciation week. I didn’t know there was such a thing, and then suddenly wondered why it’s just a week.
Continue reading teacher appreciationThe Guardian is currently running another fine series on issues in academia, this one on bullying in the higher education workplace (a previous one, on wellbeing in academia, was similarly good).
Continue reading bullying in the academic workplace