The latest honor is that researchers at universities in Tōkyō have a national grant to study podcasting for educator professional development, and they are taking my Japancasting podcast as a case study. They interviewed me by Zoom and I could enjoy recalling my innovations from 2005 in Japan, soon after podcasting started in North America. Here I'm showing some scenes from the early period, and again in collaboration with Indian colleagues, partly to reach English learners in South and Central Asia and those interested in Japan.

See the Podcasts & Videos web page for most of the educational podcasts and publications about the process: https://japanned.hcommons.org/multimedia

#OnlineEducation #OpenAccess #OER #podcasting #podcast #podcasts #education #HigherEducation #Japan #Japanese #BilingualEducation #bilingual #LanguageTeaching #InterculturalCommunication
#academia #culture #linguistics #language #languages #EFL #ESL

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#BusinessEnglish #EnglishForWork #TEFL #LanguageTeaching #GlobalCareers #ELT

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#TEFL #TESOL #Education #ELT #TeachAbroad #LanguageTeaching #CareerChange

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#TrinityCertTESOL #TEFL #TESOL #Education #ELT #TeachEnglishAbroad #RemoteTeaching #LanguageTeaching #OfqualLevel5

Today, myself and the wonderful Gretchen Clark are presenting on #research #collaboration in #LanguageTeaching at #JALT in Yoyogi National Olympic Memorial Centre. We are in the 'Coachella headliner' spot of 18:45-19:15 in Room 301. Be there or be... not even anywhere near Tokyo.

Registration to the online Graduate Learner Corpus Research Conference taking place next week ends TODAY! Check out the awesome programme: https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/english/sections/edling/conferences/lcrgrad.php#Programme

#CorpusLinguistics #ECR #SLA #LanguageTeaching #LanguageLearning

A new cohort of decolonial language teachers launches next week. No prior experience or degrees required.
Languages.any.org/teachers
#languagerevitalization #language #languages #languageteaching #teachers

The Agen Workshop on #languageteaching kicks off today. Transformational for language teachers if you've never come across #CI.

#comprehensibleinput #tprs
#agenworkshop #agen2025

Focus on the rich linguistic diversity than on the language wars. Inclusivity always wins!

https://youtu.be/FCoj_ZSpPxM?si=qfujV9Ifpz3KgD_q

cc: @mastodonindians@a.gup.pe
#LanguageLearning #LanguageTeaching

I was wondering if there would be a point in creating a set of diacritics for English with the goal of making it easier for children and adolescent or adult learners to acquire proficiency in reading and oral comprehension, think niqqud in Hebrew. It seems someone put this idea into action - they called their project FUNetix: https://funetix.org/home-2/

However, there is no research on the results. Bummer.

#EFL #ESL #glottodidactics #languageteaching #linguistics

This afternoon I tried a new format: I called it "PhD Plätzchen" – an informal forum to ask questions and chat about things to consider when thinking of doing a #PhD in #linguistics or #LanguageTeaching. A dozen of my current and former M.A. students turned up and we chatted over a lovely selection of Christmas biscuits (that the students brought along and, in some cases, baked themselves!) and tea. No silly questions, no taboo subjects. We talked about salaries, toxic supervisors, #WissZeitVG, #IchBinHanna, projects, scholarships, pensions, publish or perish, etc.

Perfect timing as, just today, the job ads for 12 new #PhD positions at the CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language" went online: https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/about-the-crc/vacancies. If anyone is interested in applying for my project (B10 on gender), do get in touch!

New publication: "Interview with Steve McCarty" [on his professorial accomplishments in Japan].

The College and University Educators research group of the Japan Association for Language Teaching has honored me with their second annual Veteran Teacher Voices interview on my teaching career in Japan. I critique the foreign language teaching profession, discuss future trends of increasing foreigners in Japan, the need for English, and long-term effects of AI on language acquisition.

I believe educationalists will find this article interesting: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/386424805

和訳 - Japanese translation which I edited: スティーブ・マッカーティとのインタビュー（日本での教授としての業績）: https://researchmap.jp/waoe/misc/48628107/attachment_file.pdf

Publications on bilingualism and language teaching: https://japanned.hcommons.org/bilingualism

#TEFL #Japan #Japanese #LanguageEducation #LanguageTeaching #LanguageLearning #bilingualism #InterculturalCommunication #FacultyDevelopment #career #retirement #InternationalMarriage #OnlineEducation

@linguistics @edutooters @academicchatter

So I have some new research/teaching outputs. First is a questionnaire study with Gretchen Clark on language teachers with ADHD:
http://www.marcjones.tokyo/2024/11/19/new-publication-language-teachers-with-adhd-self-efficacy-and-framings/

The other is my presentation from Sunday about teaching duoethnography for critical multiliteracies. http://www.marcjones.tokyo/2024/11/19/new-presentation-using-duoethnography-to-foster-critical-multiliteracies/

#LanguageTeaching #AppliedLinguistics

On my reading list and to be used as a discussion piece and for #vocabulary building in my #online #English classes: The future of European competitiveness: Report by Mario Draghi - both sections can be downloaded here:
https://commission.europa.eu/topics/strengthening-european-competitiveness/eu-competitiveness-looking-ahead_en #languageteaching

A pleasant surprise in the office on my return from my holidays yesterday! 🎉 Check out the website for the Online Supplements and an #OpenAccess version: https://elenlefoll.github.io/TextbookMDA/ 🤓 #AcademicChatter #linguistics #LanguageTeaching #ELT

The Past, Present, and Future of Language Learning in Italy and Great Britain

***CALL FOR PAPERS***
The Case of English in Italy, and of Italian in Britain
9 Nov. 2024
Pembroke College, University of Oxford
Deadline: 2 Sept. 2024
➡️ http://italianstudies.ox.ac.uk//content/cfp
#CfP #languageLearning #languageTeaching #SLT #ELT
@languages

So I freelance for a magazine with #EFL assignments for secondary schools.

I have just sent a message to my project manager asking this:

'Is pupils making a recruitment video for illegal border crossings' is too far beyond what is deemed acceptable?' with my argumentation (getting people enthousiastic and selling something = transferable skills etc).

I know the answer, but it'd be an interesting assignment for pupils anyway.

#TeachingLanguage #LanguageTeaching #TeachingEnglish

I put up slides from my presentation with Gretchen Clark yesterday on Workplace Orientations of Language Teachers with ADHD. http://www.marcjones.tokyo/2024/05/13/presentation-workplace-orientations-of-teachers-with-adhd/

#ADHD #HigherEd #LanguageTeaching

How can "kitty litter" and "litter of kittens" mean two completely different things? What a stupid language.
#efl #englishlanguage #languageteaching