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Richard Smith

@richardsmithelt.bsky.social

Professor of ELT & Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick http://warwick.ac.uk/richardcsmith History of language learning & teaching; Decentring ELT; Research by teachers for teachers (and their students); English language teacher education

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The Experience of Expatriate English Language Teaching - Cambridge Scholars Publishing The Experience of Expatriate English Language Teaching - Cambridge Scholars Publishing

I really like this new book by David B. Wilson for its fresh approach to the history of english language teaching via 'literary TEFLing' www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-.... You can read sample pages here: www.cambridgescholars.com/resources/pd...

16.06.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Miscellaneous documents Miscellaneous documents digitised and uploaded from the ELT Archive physical collection (see also 'Biographies' under Resources)

The Makerere Report is one of those frequently cited documents that most only know indirectly (e.g. through criticism in R. Phillipson’s Linguistic Imperialism).

Huge thanks to @richardsmithelt.bsky.social for making the full document available in the ELT Archive ⬇️

warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/r...

03.06.2025 10:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Teacher Research! 2025 The 11th edition of Teachers Research! Online 2025 took place on 29–30 March 2025, welcoming over 400 registered attendees for two days of dialogue, reflection, and celebration of teacher-based...

Some highlights of the 2025 conference here: resig.weebly.com/teacher-rese...

07.05.2025 09:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Vanita Chopra and Sidney Martin reflect in this feature on the recent Teachers Research! Online 2025 conference: mentrnet.net/teachers-res.... Records of previous conferences are here: resig.weebly.com/teachers-res...

07.05.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Challenges in Mentoring Teacher-Research, and How to Overcome Them' - slides and handouts for the workshop Ana Garcia-Stone and I gave at the IATEFL 2025 conference in Edinburgh: warwick.ac.uk/richardcsmit...

15.04.2025 05:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Integrating teacher-research into pre-service teacher education
YouTube video by ELTResearch Integrating teacher-research into pre-service teacher education

Why – and how to – incorporate practitioner research into language teacher education?

Two responses here:

1) Recording of an inspiring session on preservice teacher education: youtu.be/VTEwv0wFVXo?...

2) A short article I wrote for the British Council: www.teachingenglish.org.uk/professional...

24.02.2025 11:51 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
A celebration of MenTRnet / Launching two publications!
YouTube video by ELTResearch A celebration of MenTRnet / Launching two publications!

Video of Saturday's Celebration of MenTRnet (an international community of mentors of teacher-research) / Launch of two publications - now YouTubed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTde.... More info.: mentrnet.net/a-celebratio...

22.01.2025 10:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A new blog post on school improvement through mentoring Exploratory Action Research, by Sirin Soyoz and Ghazala Sajjad: mentrnet.net/school-impro... – talking about their involvement with the British Council’s Action Research mentoring initiatives in Partner Schools.

08.02.2025 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Upcoming event in the International Festival of Mentoring Teacher-Research in ELT 2024-25. Further information and registration: mentrnet.net/integrating-...

06.02.2025 05:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Summary of a MenTRnet discussion exploring potential roles of AI in teacher-research mentoring: action-research.ai/exploring-po...

22.01.2025 10:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Teachers Research! Online Conference The Teachers Research! International Online Conference is an annual event organised by the IATEFL ReSIG which brings together teacher-researchers from a wide range of contexts globally, supporting...

#edtech #MenTRnet @IATEFLResig @Ernesto_AppLing
#ReSIG
@richardsmithelt.bsky.social
Teachers research around the globe πŸ‘‡πŸ»
resig.weebly.com/teachers-res...

19.01.2025 05:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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All are welcome to this online introduction / celebration of MenTRnet - an international network for mentors of teacher-research mentrnet.net – and the launch of two publications! mentrnet.net/a-celebratio... - an event in the International Festival of Mentoring Teacher-Research in ELT

15.01.2025 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just published: _Paul Passy: Un linguiste rΓ©volutionnaire_ by Jacques Durand and Chantal Lyche @hiphilangsci.bsky.social
@holltnet.bsky.social Passy (1859–1940) founded the International Phonetic Association (IPA) and was a leader of language teaching reform
warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/r...

12.01.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
English by TV – Bibliography and Links Bibliography and links for historical English by TV programmes

I enjoyed your programme Josephine! We have one film reel of Walter and Connie (not digitised) in the Warwick ELT Archive collection (warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/r...). And I started this page yesterday to accompany your broadcast!: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/r... No new materials you don't know, though.

12.01.2025 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Cutting from the Radio Times showing Walter and Connie

Cutting from the Radio Times showing Walter and Connie

Delighted that Archive on 4: Do You Speak English? is a Radio Times @radiotimes.bsky.social Pick of the Week. So many World Service gems uncovered including China’s Follow Me. Radio 4, Saturday at 20:00

07.01.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Warwick ELT Archive page warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/r... - information about English by TV programmes (1960s–1980s), and links to YouTube videos

If you're in the UK, there is a radio documentary (11.1.25) – #DoYouSpeakEnglish? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... - about BBC English by radio and TV

12.01.2025 13:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#MenTRnet #TeacherResearch @IATEFLResig
African teacher-researchers πŸ‘‰πŸ» register for this conference tomorrow (Saturday 11th January)! 1pm GMT onwards
Register here:Β us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@Ernesto_AppLing @RichardSmithELT

10.01.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A new blog-post from the Warwick ELT Archive, by Yi Zhang, who, with Xi Li, has been leading in the compilation of these bibliographies and the catalogue of a developing collection of Chinese textbooks for English: blogs.warwick.ac.uk/elt_archive/...

08.01.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Japanese translation of A Handbook for Exploratory Action Research by Richard Smith and P. Rebolledo has just been published: mentrnet.net/japanese-tra...

07.01.2025 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Teaching some Old English again - this came at just the right time (thanks @helontheweb.bsky.social!) See Colin Gorrie's first (Direct Method) lesson here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZhl.... I also use Old English (Eald Englisc) with Leofwin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz0n...

07.01.2025 00:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Warwick ELT Archive December newsletter – 2024 in review! blogs.warwick.ac.uk/files/elt_ar...

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A new Open Access publication - 20 reader-friendly stories of teacher-research mentoring from around the world! resig.weebly.com/uploads/2/6/...

26.12.2024 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
β€˜Mentoring teacher-research as a local educational authority initiative
YouTube video by ELTResearch β€˜Mentoring teacher-research as a local educational authority initiative

Video of the most recent International Festival of Mentoring Teacher-Research event:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L6F...

This webinar provided insights from organizers and mentors of the SCERT-Delhi teacher-research initiative. Further information:
mentrnet.net/mentoring-te...

23.12.2024 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Coming up - this Saturday, with ELTons 'Outstanding Achievement' Award winner Professor Rama Mathew and mentors from SCERT-Delhi mentrnet.net/mentoring-te...

11.12.2024 02:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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December 14th event in the International Festival of Mentoring Teacher-Research in ELT (2024-25). More info and registration here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Featuring mentors for the SCERT-Delhi initiative, introduced by Prof. Rama Mathew
Festival website: mentrnet.net/festival/

06.12.2024 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

MenTRnet (mentrnet.net) has supported the journey of this journal so far, and will continue to do so! Congratulations to editor Robert Dickey and asociate editor Eli BΓ©kΓ©s for this achievement!

30.11.2024 10:59 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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British Council Partner Schools on LinkedIn: #britishcouncilpartnerschools #supportingqualityeducation… Meet our Action Research Now! keynote speaker – Richard Smith, professor of ELT and Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick. πŸ—£ In his talk titled…

www.linkedin.com/posts/britis...

30.11.2024 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks!

25.11.2024 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

thanks!

24.11.2024 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

could you add me please Philip?

23.11.2024 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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