Jason Anderson
@jasonelt
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Teacher educator, author and researcher at the University of Warwick (Applied Linguistics). Views are my own. He/him.
University of Warwick, UK
Joined August 2017
Ever wondered who coined the phrases 'communicative language teaching' and 'communicative approach'? The origins of two key terms in language teaching:
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Identifying such origins is, arguably, important, because they reveal early understandings of the implications and practicability of this big idea in the classroom, shedding light onto the “signifi…
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A two-day International Conference on Internationalisation of Higher Education is being held at the Administrative Staff College, Guwahati, from January 29-30, 2026. On the occasion, an MoU was signed between Prof. Padmini Bhuyan Boruah, Department of English Language Teaching,
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Going beyond meta-analysis and meta-synthesis - a 3rd way to do systematic review, inclusive of quantitative and qualitative data: My open access article on metasummary, still rarely used in education, but common in healthcare: https://t.co/ue6KQXWvvm
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Now published FULLY open access for 6 months, the Special Collection response to Department for Education (#dfe) Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report, incl. my article: "Sleepwalking into superdiversity: a #translanguaging perspective..."
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Explore the article collection: Language Education in the Curriculum. Published in The Language Learning Journal.
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Also see our accompanying article on Narrative lesson planning in Modern English Teacher (preview below)
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Happy to share this research, co-authored with Jaber Kamali, open access. We present Narrative Self-Observation: A new tool for teacher research via lesson observation that leads to important learning: https://t.co/x7WmA5HXBe Free resources too!
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The @educationgovuk Curriculum & Assessment Review Interim Report fails to even mention the >20% of multilingual learners in education in England. My #translanguaging critique offers a multi-culturally inclusive approach for the national curriculum & #MFL
https://t.co/KsQOnZy2Dn
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Very proud of this latest piece of research introducing “meta-identity” and “data development” (rather than collection), conducted with 3 amazing teacher researchers (Rukiye Eryılmaz, @KuheliMukherjee , Mariana Serra) and @kenandklts. https://t.co/DqxOO2dnah I learnt so much! :)
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Now published open access, Lina Mukhopadhyay (@lina_eflu) and I discuss our various research projects investigating #translanguaging and #multilingualism in Indian classrooms: https://t.co/FCDuOwyCLG Many thanks Lina, for the opportunity!
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The paperback edition of my recent book has just come out, currently available at 20% discount here: https://t.co/PQnJQWD0vR (use code EDUC1525). Any scholars based in the South, drop me an email (Uni of Warwick address) instead. 😉 #expertise #tesol #elt
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A few reflections in my latest blog post on an entertaining IATEFL plenary, and what Bryfonski and McKay's (2019) deeply flawed meta-analysis of TBLT actually reveals. #tblt #tesol #iatefl2025 #AppliedLinguistics
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I very much enjoyed Neil McMillan’s witty and creative plenary on the last day of the IATEFL Edinburgh Conference (McMillan, 2025), in which he lamented the lack of interest in methodology in recen…
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Jaber Kamali and I giving a quick preview to our #IATEFL2025 talk on Narrative Self-observation (Thursday at 12;20, Tinto room) on the #IATEFL Live channel: https://t.co/tsqeETC51J Do join us if you're free, but materials and slides will follow for those who can't be here. :)
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Anybody at IATEFL Edinburgh next week, Jaber Kamali and I will be talking on Thursday on a new way to do lesson observations that focuses on teacher learning and development rather than monitoring and evaluation: Narrative self-observation - part of the TD SIG showcase.
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A new journal dedicated to... Language Teacher Education Research: Accepting submissions. First editorial by leading figures in the field here: https://t.co/7HcLvdUBgX
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For any interested colleagues in London on 3rd March: London TESOL Research Forum. My talk on #translanguaging in #TESOL - https://t.co/KNytidYhG8
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My talk is now online here for anyone interested: https://t.co/NqeCXEnZIT
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Very happy to share that the last of 4 articles I've mentored for the Hornby Trust-ELT Journal partnership has now been published, the first ever in ELT-J reporting on research conducted in Madagascar. Well done Mirany Raminoarivony! Link: https://t.co/ZzX8sbnLWj
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Details of my talk next week for the @Uniofwarwick #AppliedLinguistics seminars: "#Translanguaging in #TESOL: Questions & controversies." 12/02/2025 15:00 UK time. Free to attend online via this link (abstract also provided): https://t.co/RsNxJouDbf All talks this term:
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Very happy to report: Our research article (with @oncevskager) on affordance-based lesson planning in #TESOL #ELT is this Issue's Editor's Choice in ELT-J (as was my original article proposing the idea in 2015!), so it's open-access/free for all here: https://t.co/NJDiLfYR3M
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Very happy to co-author this piece with @suyog_dixit (available here: https://t.co/J2EMTFUtw7 ) just published in Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism:
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