ELT Research in Action

The (new) twitter account of the ELT Research in Action (ELTRIA) conference. Bi-annually, Universitat de Barcelona.

[Jessica Mackay @JessBCN]

#AILA2021 Positive Psychology in SLA: From Theory to Evidence-based Interventions. Prof. Jean-Marc Dewaele suggests that teachers are emotional 'conductors' in class, establishing solidarity and trust, share exciting cultural info, joke, optimism, maintain own pos. wellbeing

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#AILA2021 Positive Psychology in SLA: From Theory to Evidence-based Interventions. Prof. Jean-Marc Dewaele describes factors which influence Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE)

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#AILA2021 Positive Psychology in SLA: From Theory to Evidence-based Interventions. Prof- Jean-Marc Dewaele acknowledges the influence of @SMercerGraz in the study of emotions and positive psychology in the lang. learning process

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#AILA2021 Positive Psychology in SLA: From Theory to Evidence-based Interventions. Prof- Jean-Marc Dewaele describes Positive Psychology as a 'glass-half-full' perspective. Uptick in studies in emotion since 2010

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#AILA2021 final plenary speaker, Alastair Pennycook asks what the 'Critical' in 'Critical Applied Linguistics' means: One way is creating your own map: Judith Butler, Bell Hooks, Foucault, Freire et al.

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#AILA2021 Alastair Pennycook - nervousness about bringing criticality into universities: rejection of teaching of Critical Race Theory/Intersectionality, Criticism of 'wokeness'

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#AILA2021 Alastair Pennycook reviews the events of the last 30 years and asks what it all has to do with Applied Linguistics. He argues they can't be separated: We need to engage with social, political and cultural aspects of lang. learning contexts.

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#AILA2021 Final plenary with Alastair Pennycook: need to see progress where it's happened

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#AILA2021 Final plenary with Alastair Pennycook: What has happened since 1990?

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#AILA2021 Final plenary with Alastair Pennycook starting

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#AILA2021 Symposium on Practitioner Research and classroom dynamics: emic insights through a small lens. Harumi Kimura introduces the topic: L2 Pronunciation Anxiety under Peer and Societal Pressure: Social Processes in Contexts

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#AILA2021 Symposium on Practitioner Research and classroom dynamics: emic insights through a small lens. Jon Rowberry, Sojo University, Japan examines the complex issue of teacher cognition

[Jessica Mackay @JessBCN]

#AILA2021 Symposium on Practitioner Research and classroom dynamics: emic insights through a small lens. Sam Morris, Rikkyo University observed T's 90m class and categorised T as warm, confident but firm. T's emotions list post-class revealed rollercoaster of emotions

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#AILA2021 Symposium on Practitioner Research and classroom dynamics: emic insights through a small lens. Prof. Yuzo Kimura, University Of Toyama. Very effective representation of how attractor states (CDST) influence Ts' motivation over careers

[Jessica Mackay @JessBCN]

#AILA2021 Symposium on Practitioner Research and classroom dynamics: emic insights through a small lens.
@sal_consoli example of a PEPA (potentially exploitable pedagogical activity) used in EP. Answers reveal how episodes in ls' Life Capital impact on wellbeing and learning

[Jessica Mackay @JessBCN]

#AILA2021 Symposium on Practitioner Research and classroom dynamics: emic insights through a small lens.
@sal_consoli summarises principles of Exploratory Practice (EP), which exploits pedagogical activities into research opportunities

[Jessica Mackay @JessBCN]

#AILA2021 Symposium on Practitioner Research and classroom dynamics: emic insights through a small lens.
@sal_consoli uses ecosystem metaphor to describe symbiotic and co-adaptive relationship between individual and their Life Capital

[Jessica Mackay @JessBCN]

#AILA2021 Symposium on Practitioner Research and classroom dynamics: emic insights through a small lens. Late to the party for @sal_consoli 's presentation, but will definitely be rewatching later - just my cup of tea!

[Jessica Mackay @JessBCN]

#AILA2021 Practitioner Research and classroom dynamics: emic insights through a small lens. Richard Sampson summing up his keynote presentation

[Jessica Mackay @JessBCN]

#AILA2021 Symposium on Practitioner Research and classroom dynamics: emic insights through a small lens. Richard Sampson's Acetion Research allowed him to pick out multiple 'threads' of emotions that learners and teachers encounter in class