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How to be successful in discovering and publishing research
May 30th
Here follows an article I have submitted for IATEFL’s 2019 Conference Selections, based on my presentation at the IATEFL Conference in Liverpool in 2019.
My research experience
My experience began as an undergraduate student in the 1980s at Liverpool University, a mile from the IATEFL 2019 conference venue. I then carried out research for postgraduate degrees in Literature, Applied Linguistics and Business Studies in the UK and France. Finding research across different subject disciplines was challenging, for instance navigating indexing systems, and working in a foreign language, French.
I have commissioned and published research, mainly for the British Council, written for various publications including academic journals, and carried out research for publisher clients.
For the past two years I have worked for Ingenta, a company that delivers services to publishers, including Ingenta Connect, which hosts journals for over 200 publishers. Much of this article will be informed by what I have learned from my work with academic publishers across a wide range of subject disciplines.
IATEFL Failure Fest
May 2nd
I’m ashamed to see how long it is since I last updated this blog, I’ve been busy on some very exciting e-learning projects, and working as a member of the IATEFL Conference committee. One of my highlights was working with Ken Wilson to organise the Failure Fest evening at the Liverpool conference, and reading the various reviews made me feel very proud. I was inspired to suggest the Failure Fest event after attending a similar event of that name organised by Nesta late in 2012, in which presenters shared their experiences of failure and learning in various educational contexts. You can see the video of our event at IATEFL Online.
Mobile learning presentation webinar
Dec 14th
I’m greatly looking forward to my mobile learning presentation this weekend for the IATEFL Learning Technology SIG, see details on their web page. I will report on a survey of language learning apps carried out with Paul Sweeney, and the features that we liked and those we didn’t and describe how I have applied this learning in two mobile app projects that I am working on.
The first is an arcade style iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad vocabulary learning game called Word Carrot that I have been working on the past few months with three colleagues in our new company, LearnAhead Ltd. The app will appear on the Apple App store in early January 2012.
TESOL versus IATEFL: which is better?
Apr 28th
Posted by Caroline in Article
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For the first time in a while I went to both conferences this spring in New Orleans and Brighton respectively. I gave papers at both events, which were important opportunities to develop my new business, catch up with old friends and make some new ones. Funding my own attendance led to me to reflect sharply on whether they were worth the money.
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