The latest issue of 𝐸𝐿𝑇 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ features an open access interview held soon after my IATEFL plenary last year. Thanks to Josianne Block for the interview and for being a wonderful research colleague.
Interview: resig.weebly.com/uploads/2/6…
I'm happy to announce the publication of a new book on sustainability in ELT. It's an open access volume that brings together 13 chapters penned by 21 authors from a range of contexts.
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The call for proposals for the 15th ELT Malta Conference is now open. The conference will be held on 23-25 October. The submission deadline is 26 April.
Please share with your #ELT colleagues.
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New in Language Testing: a Letter to the Editor by Lynda Taylor engaging with my recent article on mentoring presidents in ELT associations. The letter opens up a wider conversation about professional membership, engagement, and leadership in our field.
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This evening I enjoyed speaking to around 100 teachers from Albania and other countries on how we can make the language classroom a more inclusive learning environment.
Thanks to ELTA Albania for the invitation and to the @BritishCouncil for supporting this initiative.
Tomorrow I'm going to be delivering an invited talk at the annual conference organised by ANP, an association for school leaders in Italy. This will be my first conference talk in Italian so I'm feeling more excited than usual :)
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🎓Call for papers open!
Submit your abstract by 9 January 2026 to join corpus linguistics researchers from around the world for #IVACS2026 . The conference will take place at the University of Malta in Valetta from 1 to 3 July 2026.
ℹ️Details:
um.edu.mt/events/ivacs2026/c…
Our special issue on 'Technology-Enhanced Language Teacher Education: New Findings and Future Concerns' has now been published in the journal Technology in Language Teaching & Learning (volume 7, issue 2).
Open access: castledown.com/journals/tltl…
For those interested in Aviation English, this is a newly published chapter co-authored with my colleague Nicole Falzon.
If you don't have access, send me a direct message.
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The tenth and final part of a leadership series that started two years ago shows how school leaders can harness culture to spark creativity, innovation & belonging.
📖 Read the full article in @ModEngTeacher (Vol. 34 No. 5): pavilionelt.com/met#Leadership#ELT#Culture
The latest issue of @ModEngTeacher contains an article that develops some of the ideas I shared in my IATEFL plenary earlier this year.
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This newly published open access article examines the affordances of technology when seen as a reflective partner in language teacher education. It proposes a five-principle framework for technology-enhanced reflection.
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I enjoyed this morning's plenary at the @edyoufest Conference in Malta. The session focused on the intersection of reflection and technology in enhancing teachers' professional learning.
Thanks to Giovanni Rottura for the invitation and to the ELT Council for its support.
On 25th September, I will be participating in a panel discussion organised by The PIE. Registration is open to anyone interested in current trends in the ELT sector in Malta and internationally.
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On 23rd November, I'll be speaking about classroom research at the #TESOL25 PreK-12 Day, a post virtual convention event for primary and secondary mainstream and EAL teachers and administrators.
Registration is now open: tesol.org/virtual/prek-12-da…
Almost at the end of the international summer school being held at the University of Prizren, Kosovo. I'm enjoying the experience of mentoring a lovely group of students enrolled on a course focusing on digital tools and interactive learning in the English classroom.
Newly published study on mentoring presidents within English language teacher associations.
Thanks to the participants for sharing their experiences, and the guest editors of the Special Issue that this open access article forms part of.
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