Edinburgh Research Archive

If you haven’t done it already, why not send your dissertation to the Edinburgh Research Archive? It means that your dissertation will be kept safe in electronic format (so don’t worry about fires and floods!) and you can let people see it online (a good idea for friends and family? How about adding it to your CV?).

You can find the collections and instructions on:

http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/index.jsp

To whet your appetite – have a look at a thesis from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (author of Sherlock Holmes)

You can find the TESOL collection by going to “communities and collections” > Moray House > TESOL

or go directly by following this link:

http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/359

Publishing opportunity

This message was sent out on a circular mailing from BAAL. It looks like the kind of paper that could be written from a TESOL dissertation that replicates previous research:

Now entering its 40th year, Language Teaching is a quarterly, professional, peer-reviewed journal which is dedicated to providing a number of resources to its international readership of researchers and practitioners in L2 education at all levels of instruction. Each regular issue of the journal contains commissioned state-of-the-art reviews and surveys about various aspects of L2 learning, acquisition and teaching as well as comparative book reviews thematically linked to these reviews.

We are pleased to announce that, for the first time in a journal in our field, a new section will publish exclusively academic studies which replicate a previous sound study: we invite submissions of previously unpublished articles based on literal, approximate or constructive replication of a previous study or studies. In keeping with the survey characteristics of Language Teaching we also encourage submissions of meta-analyses which attempt to combine or synthesise a series of comparable research replications. Papers can be based on a broad range of topics.The details of this permanent Call for Papers can be found in the Instructions for Contributors at:  http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayMoreInfo?jid=LTA&type=ifc

 

 

Graduation November 06

The studentswho successfully completed the MEd TESOL during session 05-06 will be graduating in November.

Information about the ceremony: http://www.ed.ac.uk/events/graduations/

New graduates from 05-06

Best wishes to all the new 05-06 graduates! We are looking forward to seeing some of you here in Edinburgh for the graduation ceremony. Information about the graduation ceremony is on http://www.ed.ac.uk/events/graduations/

Let us know what you plan to do next …

outing to Earlston

The MEd TESOL group visited Rosemary’s farm in Earlston, the main attraction being the two-day-old foal. The lambs were also photographed a lot …

Hello TESOL graduates!

Hello to all of you who have graduated from BEd TESOL, MA TESOL, MEd TESOL, MA ELT, BEd TESL, PGLELT, Dip TEFL at Moray House.

This is a blog for MEd TESOL and also for all of you who were once studying at Moray House. Where are you now? What are you doing? We would like to know what you are doing now and if you have continued working in the TESOL / EFL / ESL world?

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