What a great start to our Symposium "English Language Teaching in Italy (1900-2000)"! Richard Smith, Lucilla Lopriore, Gisella Langè, and Paola Vettorel gave us a lot of food for thought regarding different aspects of ELT materials in a historical perspective.

How can we not (want to) attend this HoLLT conference next June, in the beautiful setting of Como?! Deadline for proposals: Jan. 15th uninsubria.eu/about-us/our-c…

We're really looking forward to this! 🤩

Ya está disponible el vídeo de la mesa redonda con motivo de la publicación del libro de Claude Germain “Didactologie et didactique des langues – Deux disciplines distinctes” (2022, EME Éditions, Louvain-la-Neuve). Info de Richard Smith is on #bluesky, leaving X #histlx youtu.be/vmRSBawDQ44?si…

Colloque inter-associations sur l’histoire de l’apprentissage et de l’enseignement des langues Uninsubria, Côme, 2025 Se tourner vers le passé pour comprendre le présent. Explorer l’interaction entre les évolutions socio-culturelles et politiques et l’enseignement des langues

New week, new post on our website 📝 Read about Emanuela Tenca's Emanuela Tenca research trip to the Warwick ELT Archive back in July! The research trip was made possible thanks to a bursary by the European Society for the Study of English ESSE italy-elt-archive.unimi.it/a-research-tri…

Report by Emanuela Tenca on her visit to the Warwick ELT Archive italy-elt-archive.unimi.it/a-research-tri…

Announcing the new website of MenTRnet (the Mentoring Teacher-Research Network) – mentrnet.net/welcome/ - a community of practice for those mentoring teachers or student-teachers to research their classrooms, or interested in doing so.

Next event in the International Festival of Mentoring Teacher-Research in ELT - a webinar led by Sirin Soyoz showcasing work in the British Council’s Partner Schools programme -- free registration and further details via here: mentrnet.net/school-improve… IATEFL ReSIG @amyelightfoot

Feature by Susan Dawson on MenTRnet's new website: mentrnet.net/being-ethical/ IATEFL ReSIG

New oral history initiative within @Cultnetinternational: "We have interviewed people whose contribution to the development of language teaching has been significant and who can bear witness to the ups and downs of language teaching in the UK over the last few decades." BAAL: British Association for Applied Linguistics

My talk on 'An ELT Archive – How can it be relevant to teaching today?' for the Italy ELT Archive launch on September 20th: youtube.com/watch?v=GjAqtC…

An effective Facebook Live introduction to Exploratory Action Research by Thai teachers and mentors, with a very interesting Q&A (40:31 onwards) fb.watch/vdEct6cnq4/ More on EAR here: bit.ly/handbook-EAR

"School Improvement through Mentoring Exploratory Action Research". Video-recording of 19 October event in the International Festival of Mentoring Teacher-Research (2024–25) (mentrnet.net/festival/) with Sirin Soyoz, Ghazala Sajjad and Fareeha Bashir. youtube.com/watch?v=SiUojl…

Congratulations!

I couldn't agree more ;)

One interesting and very encouraging aspect of our work with Exploratory Action Research (bit.ly/handbook-EAR) in recent years is the way teachers who've engaged in projects have felt inspired to voluntarily mentor other teachers in turn...

Success stories of teacher-researchers becoming mentors. Our next free, online Festival event: mentrnet.net/teacher-resear… 16 November 13:00-14:30 GMT

Great - we're in business, Huw - at least you and I can talk #TESOL over there ;)