I gave a presentation at JALT Listening Conference (self-embargoed because I intend to sort it out as a paper for my PhD), but I talked about it in a short interview with Chris from Lost In Citations. There are a lot of other fantastic people interviewed talking about listening research, so you should check it out, seeing as you are probably interested in listening.
The link is here: Lost in Citations episode 120.
My amazing coauthor Chiara Bruzzano and I have just had this article put up by Language Scholar journal.
We hope you find it useful.
https://languagescholar.leeds.ac.uk/reflecting-dialogically-on-listening-pedagogy-a-duoethnography/
These are my slides from my talk at Yokohama JALT today. I am writing this and scheduling this the night before, so hopefully you enjoy it!
Recently my former distance-learning virtual classmate, Vicky Loras, asked me to be a guest on her new podcast. When I said yes, I had no idea that I would be the first guest. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed recording it.
https://anchor.fm/vicky-loras/episodes/The-PhonPod-Pocast—Episode-1—Marc-Jones-e1kgf4l
Hello. It has been a while. I am currently busy with PhD study and have been developing a new, old hobby. In the interim, I have been preparing a couple of journal articles and had this conference paper under review.
I have taught linguistic landscape research projects to undergraduates as part of their language studies at universities in and around Tokyo for 4 years now, with one year where I did not teach a course suitable for integrating it. I believe it provides a way to have learners become more aware of the ways in which English as well as other languages are used around them and see greater value in their own language practices, rather than a deficit view. I have been frequently astonished at just how well my students have completed their work, which are typically short group projects with all teaching and learning involved conducted over a four-week period.
I presented this as a conference paper at JAAL in JACET in December. After the review of the proceedings, I gained yet more insight into my teaching and students’ learning through the reviewer questions. The conference paper citation and link are:
Jones, M. (2022b). Teaching Linguistic Landscape Research: Encouraging Learner Cognition About Language Practices. JAAL in JACET Proceedings, 4, 60–64. https://www.jacet.org/publication/jaal-in-jacet-proceedings/
I really do welcome comments on this, with the caveat that this was not intended as a full research project, but as a way to show something that is relatively interesting as a classroom practice.
As of yesterday, the TESL-EJ has my review of Freiermuth, M. & Zarrinabadi, N. (2020). Technology and the psychology of second language learners and users. Palgrave Macmillan.
Tl;dr. I liked it, but it is not perfect. Obviously, because nothing is.
Literally minutes ago, Matthew Noble and I presented our duoethnography at the Mental Health in Foreign Language Education: Taboos and Mental Health in Language Education and TEFL Day organized by Maximilian Ludwig University, Bamberg University and Wurzburg University.
Here are the slides:
Also check out the preprint!
Yesterday, my colleague at RMUTT in Thailand, Matthew Noble and I put up a preprint on Edarxiv in preparation for a symposium we will attend in November on Mental Health in ELT. Yes, it seems to be rather niche; however, we feel that there is less a gap in the literature on language teacher psychology and more of a yawning chasm regarding neurodivergent teachers. In our own way, we want to change this.
By exploring our own experiences of TEFL, we get to show how the profession impacts our lives and also how our lives affect our professional practice. We figure that if 7.1% (Thomas et al, 2019) of the population are estimated to have ADHD, yet one of the symptoms is being attracted to novel situations and being in the moment rather than considering past experiences or future implications, then there are likely a lot of colleagues with ADHD, potentially more than the 7.1%.
This is now an article in JALT Teacher Development SIG’s Explorations in Teacher Development journal. You can find it here.
Thomas, R., Sanders, S., Doust, J., Beller, E., & Glasziou, P. (2015). Prevalence of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Pediatrics, 135(4), e994–e1001. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2014-3482
Last year, JALT Listening SIG got off the ground. It was during the time that I had let my JALT membership lapse. Perhaps if I had known about the forming SIG sooner, perhaps I would have been less likely to have let my membership lapse. However, I renewed this April and joined the nascent SIG.
Anyway, the coordinator of the SIG, Naheen Madarbakus has done a great job of organizing so much. I got in touch earlier in the year to see if there was anything I could do to help. There was; I am now the SIG’s Publications Chair.
It also gives me a chance to put into practice some good ideas. I am sure that not all JALT members have access to a wide range of journals so the SIG’s website and podcast will have Research Bites, inspired by the original ELT Research Bites.
The journal, The Listening Post, is due to have its first issue in June 2022, and it would be great to have a wide range of submissions to our general call for papers.
At the moment I am nearing the end of writing one duoethnography and just about to submit another to a journal. One thing that has made things a lot easier for me has been reverse outlining, but in a spreadsheet.
As you can see, if you have images enabled in your browser, I have columns titled Section, Para(graph), Overall (paragraph idea), then three columns labelled Idea. The section is the section header and underneath I have a rough word count. Para is the number of the paragraph, with the Overall and Idea columns being the main contents of the outline.
This approach works for me because it means I can find any topics that are recurrent or tangential, or abrupt subject changes and work them into the piece better or cut them out without losing coherence. This is going to be something that I come back to again and again, I think, particularly in my PhD work.
Reverse outlining might not work on a text that is moribund but for something that needs a polish and a tidy up, it has saved more time than it took to set it up.