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Evidence-Based Second Language Pedagogy

Evidence-Based Second Language Pedagogy

A collection of instructed second language acquisition studies Masatoshi Sato & Shawn Loewen (Eds.) New York, NY: Routledge 358 pages ISBN-10: 0815392532 ISBN-13: 978-0815392538 Instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) is a “subdiscipline

Book Review: Refugee Tales

Book Review: Refugee Tales

David Herd & Anna Pincus (Eds.) Comma Press 2019 ISBN 1912697114 EDL: Teaching English as a Detention Language ‘You, me and those who came before’* By Elizabeth Bekes** Refugee Week

Jungle Job

Jungle Job

by Elizabeth Bekes “And the Wachirpas shaman, Sumpa is also coming at the weekend,” I tell my daughter during our Sunday walk by the Tomebamba river and she laughs out

Book Review: Language for Teaching Purposes

Book Review: Language for Teaching Purposes

by Elizabeth Bekes Book Review Emma Riordan: Language for Teaching Purposes Bilingual Classroom Discourse and the Non-Native Speaker Language Teacher 2018, Palgrave Macmillan https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71005-1_1 “This book examines the spoken language

Don’t Stare – Start Writing Instead

Don’t stare – start writing instead

by Elizabeth Bekes Cuenca, Ecuador Book review on The PhD Writing Handbook by Desmond Thomas Palgrave September 2016 The opening scene of Sally Potter’s movie, The Tango Lesson is imprinted

Academic Writing Buddy

Academic Writing Buddy

A proposal to establish an international academic writing buddy system for mentoring and being mentored, with a view to getting published. Comments from teachers and educationalists would be greatly appreciated

What I learnt from Jeremy Harmer

What I learnt from Jeremy Harmer

About the role of course books in the modern age Helbling Languages – Books and Bits (joint professional development event) by Erzsébet Békés As background music, I have Sona Jobarteh