Our apologies for cross-posting! Dear all, The CALL Interest Section of the international TESOL professional association is pleased to offer the opportunity to...
Dear All, Apologies for cross posting. Just a quick update to let you know about some new materials available for teachers interested in using learning...
Nik Peachey
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Dec 10, 2007 3:21 pm
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[Apologies for cross-posting] Dear All This is to let you know that Volume 1 of Papers from the Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and...
Dear group members, I wish to introduce myself to you. I am an author whose books are used in many school programs to encourage children to express themselves...
IATEFL Young Learners Yahoo Groups list The first fielded discussion of 2008 will be carried out by Simon Smith. The topic is - YL Teacher Development, The...
The professional doctorate: developing or replacing classroom practice? Hi again everyone. I'm Martin McMorrow, the moderator of this forum, though you might...
My name is Martin McMorrow. I'm one of the group of doctoral students hoping to field this discussion over the next week (also list moderator). I am British...
Dear Martin et al, This is an exceptionally interesting topic for me, as I am likely to be in a similar position - and over 50 by the time I even finish my...
Hi, Like Caroline, and I suspect many other list members, I did the Aston MSc, completing it about ten years ago. At the time I was self-employed, running my...
Peter Beech
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Jan 11, 2008 12:11 pm
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Hi, Martin's comments really resonated for me: I'm in my 40s; mid-career in something that originally (1987!) I thought I would do for 6-12 months; and now...
Judith Hanks
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Jan 11, 2008 12:39 pm
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Martin, I read your posting with great interest, but from a different angle, probably, than most readers on this list. When I retired from my university post...
Hi all from a sunny morning in the Nevada desert Martin and Caroline, I too am considering an EdD at some point (and I’ll be over 50 when I do it) but my...
Hi everyone! As a sixty year old who doesn't even have a Masters, but does have a lot of experience, I am intrigued by this discussion. Frankly, I have often...
Hi all, Melodie Cook here; I'm in Martin's cohort in the Macquarie Doctor of Applied Linguistics program. I started this program for partly practical, partly...
Hi Dindy As one who only did an MA 'cos I had loads of experience but no bits of paper to show concretely (for whoever was interested and at the point when I ...
Hi Dindy I believe you were lucky that when you started teaching English, or when you were mid-career, having the 'paper' of an MA was not a requirement to...
Hi everybody, Here's a short contribution to the discussion, from another resident in Germany, like Caroline Laxon. Armed with a first degree and PGCE I began...
Briony Beaven
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Jan 12, 2008 12:27 pm
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I'd like to thank Martin for his very useful introduction to the issue of "professional" doctorates, and all those who have responded so far for enriching the...
Hi everybody, Here's a short contribution to the discussion, from another resident in Germany, like Caroline Laxon. Armed with a first degree and PGCE I began...
Briony Beaven
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Jan 12, 2008 2:44 pm
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Hang on a minute. Costas equates "professional researchers" with "knowledge producers and disseminators". I have two problems with that. a) How do you...
Scott, Knowledge may be produced through any type of informed, principled and critical `practice', be it research (i.e. looking for new knowledge and skills)...
Hi all from another blue skied albeit cool morning in the Nevada desert Lilian, things are changing and fast . there are now more L2 speakers of English than...
Dear Dindy et al, I actually agree with you, Dindy - hands on teaching experience can't be beat and a practical teaching qualification like the DELTA or Dip...
Dear All Here's my two cents' worth (though that's probably an over-valuation!) on this topic: 1. Some "pros" of PhDs in ELT: - gives you an entree into the...
Judging by some posts so far, it would seem that the discussion were on whether one should do ELT training/education courses *or* a doctorate in ELT, when the...
Two more indications that the distinction between 'trad' and 'prof' doctorate programmes more accurately refers to the study needs of the (prospective)...
Hello from a cold and windy Sussex, England ... You could look at this from the persective of teachers of ESOL. If learners were only exposed to their non-nest...
Thanks for the link to the Lancaster University programme, Costas. I was especially intrigued by the illustration at the top of the general postgrad advice...
Thanks for the contributions to the discussion so far. I'd like to pick up on some of the themes raised so far - from my own perspective - and invite further...
Hello Everyone, My name is Diane Nagatomo, and I’m one of Martin McMorrow’s cohorts in the DAppLing program at Macquarie University. I’m American, and...
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