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This website was created by Sue Robbins, Senior Lecturer in SCLS, SFHEA
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SCLS Bulletin
Language Pedagogy, Principles & Practice
A brief bulletin of recent SCLS activity, to share and disseminate information on research and teaching-related activities carried out by our staff and students to Sussex and wider communities; and to encourage reflection on broader issues to do with language, pedagogy, and culture by staff and students within SCLS.
Websites
Frontiers in Education - assessment, testing and applied measurement
Richard Byrne 'Practical Ed Tech'
LSPHE - Languages for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
The Playful Learning Association
Organisations
ALDinHE Association for Learning Development in HE
Chartered Institute of Linguists
EATAW - the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing is an academic association supporting scholarly activity in academic writing.
QAA - the UK's independent body safeguarding quality and standards in higher education QAA subject benchmark statements
UKALTA - language testing association
Blogs
EAP Essentials - Olwyn Alexander (the practice end of the theory-practice nexus and designed to complement the teacher handbook EAP Essentials).
The Effortful Educator - applying cognitive psychology to the classroom
The Language Scholar, Univeristy of Leeds
The Learning Scientists - cognitive psychological scientists interested in research on education
Rattus Scholasticus - Helen Webster
The SoTL Guide blog - Uni Calgary, Taylor Institute for Teaching & Learning
Teaching EAP: Polemical. Questioning, debating and exploring issues in EAP - Alex Ding
The TEAPing Point:explorations in EAP - Steve Kirk
TEAP Online Reading Circle - David Munn
USSbriefs - papers written by university staff and students, for university staff and students
Journals
Malcolm Tight (2018) 'Higher education journals: their characteristics and contribution'. Higher Education Research & Development, 37:3, 607-619, DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2017.1389858 (click on the table in the middle)
Humanities Commons - nonprofit network where humanities scholars can create a professional profile, discuss common interests, develop new publications, and share their work.
HERDSA - Higher Education Research & Development
**Practice and Evidence of the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning in HE
Reading Matrix (2nd & FL reading & literacy)
**aims to publish accounts of scholarly practice that report on small-scale practitioner research and case studies of practice that involve reflection, critique, implications for future practice and are informed by relevant literature, with a focus on enhancement of student learning. Good place to share your work on delivering teaching and learning.
*aimed at promoting and sustaining a research culture amongst practitioners in higher education who have an interest in the development of the HE student experience. Good place to share your work on delivering teaching and learning.
Twitter chats
(pdf about what a tweet chat is)
LangChat (@langchatPLN) free professional development for world language teachers | THURSDAY 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT |
Learning & Teaching in Higher Education LTHE tweetchat (@LTHEchat) Wednesdays 8.00 - 9.00pm UK time
Learning Scientists twitter chat #LrnSciChat (next chat - 30 Jan 8.00pm (UK time)
(also chat to other EAPers via #EAPchat )