Events and Activities

Past Seminars

• In March 2026, Simone Sarmento presented on English, Access, and Inequality in Brazilian Higher Education.
• In February 2026, Yuko Goto Butler presented on Children’s English Learning in Global Contexts: Assumptions and Challenges.
• In December 2025, Stephanie Ann Houghton presented on Native-speakerism.
• In June 2025, Yu Kanazawa & Chie Takeda presented on Active learning × Epistemic emotion day – 1st Presentation: Theories and practices of epistemic emotions in active learning – 2nd Presentation: classroom interaction through epistemic emotion-rich active learning.
• In June 2025, Carol Griffiths presented on Teacher burnout in EMI.
• In June 2025, Alissa Keith presented on The native-like speaker myth: Challenging native-like proficiency as the only measure of additional language success.
• In May 2025, Christopher J. Hall presented on Ontological and ideological clarity about English for ELT.
• In May 2025, Zoe Handley presented on Online and in-person language contact during study abroad: Using the Lang Track App to explore the experiences of international masters’ students studying in the UK.
• In January 2025, Adrian Holliday presented on Putting aside native-speakerist labelling to find linguistic and cultural hybridity and the “translingual instinct”.
• In October 2024, Francisco Javier González Ruiz presented on Constructing personal identities on social media: Spanish Tourism University graduates’ attitudes towards translanguaging and VELF.
• In October 2024, Berta Torras Vila presented on English as an International Language: Classroom Implications.
• In June 2024, Eda Akgün Özpolat, Başak Çermikli Ayvaz, H. İrem Çomoğlu, & Emily Phillips Galloway presented on Multilingual identity navigations of pre-service English teachers in Türkiye: Takeaways from the project DIVE.
• In June 2024, Işıl Günseli Kaçar presented on Online flipped learning and task design for inclusive and engaging learning environments: EFL students’ and preservice teachers’ perspectives.
• In May 2024, Nicos Sifakis presented on ELF, ELF awareness and the three major shifts in teaching and teacher education.
• In April 2024, Ryuko Kubota & Ryosuke Aoyama presented on Antiracist and decolonial approaches to teaching English as an international language.
• In March 2024, Davran Gaipov presented on Developing holistic approach in EMI provision: institutional and instructional levels.
• In February 2024, Jepri Ali Saiful presented on Eco-ELT for environmental practice and research in ELT.
• In February 2024, Belén Cruz-Durán presented on Song translation in Spanish tertiary education and its applications in the English classroom.
• In January 2024, Syed Abdul Manan & Mir Afzal Tajik presented on Gaps between policy aspirations and enactment: Graduate students’ struggles with academic English amidst a turbulent transition to the EMI environment in Kazakhstani universities.
• In January 2024, Nurmala Elmin Simbolon & Dwi Kartikasari presented on EMI and EAP teachers collaboration for an EMI program: A case from Indonesia.
• In January 2024, Karen Forbes presented on “We are multilingual!”: Theoretical and pedagogical perspectives on developing a multilingual identity in schools.
• In November 2023, Esra Kurtuldu presented on Potential effects of different English accents on non-native English speakers’ listening comprehension and perceptions.
• In November 2023, Ron Chanetsa presented on Cultivating a culture of learning: A catalyst for change leadership.
• In November 2023, Sean Patrick Kang presented on Quo vadis educere amidst metaverse era vis-à-vis the needs of generation Z & Alpha in the 21st century?.
• In November 2023, Yecid Ortega presented on Social justice in language education: Perspectives from an international context.
• In October 2023, María Deseada López-Fernández presented on Teaching linguistic mediation to adults in the English language classroom: A Spanish context.
• In October 2023, Reka R. Jablonkai presented on Pedagogic strategies and competencies in multilingual educational contexts.
• In October 2023, Julie Waddington presented on A teaching innovation network as a catalyst for change and professional development: EME at the University of Girona.
• In September 2023, Hacer Kaçar presented on English language instructors’ perspectives about their self-efficacy on GE topics.
• In September 2023, Nadia Lamprecht presented on Rethinking literature in the South African secondary school EFAL curriculum.
• In August 2023, Zeynep Ceyhan Bingöl presented on EFL instructors’ perceptions and practices on standard English and World Englishes in a Turkish context.
• In July 2023, Gulnissa Zhunussova presented on Multilingualism and EFL teachers’ attitudes towards English in Kazakhstan.
• In July 2023, Christopher Hill presented on Learning from academics: Lessons in EMI engagement.
• In June 2023, Kübra Yağar Besen presented on An evaluation of negotiation of meaning strategies in an ELT coursebook from an ELF-aware perspective.
• In June 2023, Fan Fang presented on Global Englishes and teacher education.
• In June 2023, Annina Dowman presented on To what extent did the exclusion of Creole from the Reunionese high school curriculum in the 90’s impact students’ identity?.
• In May 2023, Elif Kemaloğlu-Er presented on Integrating Global Englishes pedagogy into the English classroom: Novel perspectives, novel practices.