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ELT teachers' stories of resilience
James, Gwyneth; de Laurentiis Brandao, Ana Carolina (British Council, 2019-06-01)This study analyses ELT teachers’ stories of resilience in Brazil and the United Kingdom. Resilience is a fundamental element in ELT teachers’ lives. In Brazil, for example, teachers face major challenges such as the low ... -
ELT teachers' stories of resilience (summary version)
James, Gwyneth; de Laurentiis Brandao, Ana Carolina (2020-02)This article is a summary of the research project we were funded by the British Council to conduct between 2017 and 2019. It focuses on the construction and analysis of six early career ELT teachers' stories focusing on ... -
Embedding and Assessing Compassion in the University Curriculum
Gilbert, Theo (2016-06-29)Psychology, anthropology and neuroscience are currently researching compassion - how it can be defined and understood, and how compassion can be applied into world and local social systems for building more co-operative ... -
Embedding and Assessing Compassion in the University Curriculum
Gilbert, Theo (The International Academic Forum, 2016-06-29)Scholarship in clinical psychology (Gilbert, P., Neff; 2003; Kirkpatrick et al, 2007) anthropology (Goetz et al, 2010) and neuroscience (Immordino Yang et al, 2009; Stanford University’s CCARE) agree the definition of ... -
The embodied word
Panhofer, Heidrun; Payne, Helen; Parke, Timothy; Meekums, Bonnie (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012)During the last decades a narrative outlook has become very popular in many disciplines, including psychotherapy whose central model is based on the exteriorisation of inner worlds through verbalisation. The following ... -
Enhancing Inclusivity in the Higher Education Discussion Group: : Strategies for Employability, Internationalisation and Assessment in a UK University
Gilbert, Theo (Tata Institute of Social Sciences., 2012-09-01)The concept of compassion and its role in building co-operative societies is being researched across disciplines - anthropology, clinical psychology, group psychotherapy, neuroscience. Education appears to stand aloof from ... -
Exploring understandings of partnership in higher education using methods from corpus linguistics
Smith, Karen; Kersten, Saskia (2018-04-01) -
Gebrauchsbasierte Ansätze des Fremdsprachenlernens in der Grundschule : Der Erwerb von chunks
Kersten, Saskia (Peter Lang Pub. Inc., 2016) -
Grundschulforschung zwischen allgemeinen und fachdidaktischen Fragestellungen
Hartinger, Andreas; Graff, Thyra; Kersten, Saskia; Kröger, Felicitas; Kruse, Iris; Lenz, Friedrich; Oyen, Stefan (VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2007) -
How UK HE STEM Students Were Motivated to Switch Their Cameras on: A Study of the Development of Compassionate Communications in Task-focused Online Group Meetings
Jayasundara, J. M. P. V. K.; Gilbert, Theo; Kersten, Saskia; Meng, Li (2022-04-30)HE’s pandemic-driven shift to online platforms has increased social and learning disconnection amongst students. In online group work/teamwork, many are reluctant to switch on their cameras to be more present to others. ... -
‘If you're a male primary teacher, there's a big “why are you doing that? What is wrong with you?”’ Gendered expectations of male primary teachers: The ‘double bind’
McDowell, Joanne (2023-12-01)The underrepresentation of men in non‐traditional fields of work is often attributed to essentialist gendered beliefs that associate such roles exclusively with women. This phenomenon is not limited to any specific country ... -
Improving well-being in Higher Education: Adopting a compassionate approach
Maratos, Frances A.; Gilbert, Paul; Gilbert, Theo (Springer Nature, 2019-07-29) -
Introduction to Bilingualism
Schelletter, Christina (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019-10-24)Drawing together linguists' and psychologists' approaches to the study of bilingualism, this volume provides students with a firm grounding in bilingual acquisition and development. It begins with a discussion of sequential ... -
A journey through narrative inquiry to autoethnography
James, Gwyneth (Routledge, 2018-12-07)This article describes my journey of analysing my doctoral data narratively. It starts with the use of narrative inquiry, a research methodology which studies experience as story, and moves to autoethnography, an ... -
Language Development in Young Learners : The role of formulaic language
Kersten, Saskia (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015-09) -
Language Learning and Language Use - Applied Linguistic Approaches : Papers Selected from the Junior Research Meeting Essen 2011
Kersten, Saskia; Ludwig, Christian; Meer, Dorothee; Rüschoff, Bernd (UVVR Universitätsverlag Rhein-Ruhr, 2012) -
Lexical and Grammatical Comprehension in Monolingual and Bilingual Children
Schelletter, Christina; Ramsey, Rachel (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2010) -
Lexikalische Entwicklung von bilingualen Vorschulkindern
Schelletter, Christina (Peter Lang GmbH, 2016)Previous studies investigating vocabulary in bilingual and monolingual children show that bilingual children’s vocabulary scores are often below monolingual norms. The current study investigates the receptive and productive ... -
Masculinity and Non-Traditional Occupations : Men’s Talk in Women’s Work
McDowell, Joanne (2015-04-28)Occupation segregation is a persistent aspect of the labour market, and scholars have often researched what happens when women and men enter into what are seen to be ‘non-traditional’ work roles for their sex. Research on ... -
The Mental Lexicon and Vocabulary Learning : Implications for the foreign language classroom
Kersten, Saskia (Narr, 2010)Lexis was, for a long time, paid scant attention to in foreign language teaching. Over the last 20 years, however, vocabulary acquisition has become a focus of academic research. In particular, the Cognitive Linguistic ...