Evolving the TESOL Teaching–Research Nexus

(En)gendering the TESOL classroom1

This paper explores the notion that the TESOL classroom, no less than other social contexts, is an important site for the production and regulation of gender. Previous theoretical and empirical accounts of the relationship between language and gender in applied linguistics have suggested that gender precedes and gives rise to language use. However, post-structuralism radically reframes this rel...

TESOL: Trojan Horse of Globalisation

TESOL in times of change

This paper locates the field of TESOL1 within a broad and complex social context marked by dramatic and dynamic technological and socio-economic changes that have taken place over the few last decades in many countries in the world. Understanding these transformations is crucial for educators because it facilitates understanding of the educational and professional needs of people (Saha 1997; Al...

The Importance of Teachers Writing on TESOL*

In this article, I examine the potential roles of reflective writing in ESOL teachers' learning and professional renewal. I demonstrate its importance with insights from aspects of a study on the accounts ESOL teachers construct when they do write about teaching.

The NeXus data format

NeXus is an effort by an international group of scientists to define a common data exchange and archival format for neutron, X-ray and muon experiments. NeXus is built on top of the scientific data format HDF5 and adds domain-specific rules for organizing data within HDF5 files, in addition to a dictionary of well defined domain-specific field names. The NeXus data format has two purposes. Firs...