Achilleas Kostoulas in English Language Teaching Research and Teacher Education

Three myths about learning English in the primary school

Across the world, schools are intensifying…

Achilleas Kostoulas in English Language Teaching Research and Teacher Education

Nov 8, 2015

The Lingua controversy

What happens when the editors of an Elsevier linguistics journal decide they have had enough?

You might have heard about the mass resignation of the entire editorial board and the reviewers of Lingua…

Achilleas Kostoulas in English Language Teaching Research and Teacher Education

Sep 3, 2015

“I honestly can’t understand what’s so bad about taking a language test!”

A short narrative about the time when the school administrators tried to impose a language test without asking anyone if it was a…

Achilleas Kostoulas in English Language Teaching Research and Teacher Education

Jun 20, 2015

Revisiting the Target Language Democratisation narrative

We have all been taught the history of English Language Teaching. But what if this history is wrong?

Achilleas Kostoulas in English Language Teaching Research and Teacher Education

May 2, 2015

Non-Native Speakers of English need not apply

A reminder that linguistic discrimination is still quite alive, even among academics who claim to be working in the ‘critical’ tradition

Achilleas Kostoulas in English Language Teaching Research and Teacher Education

Jan 24, 2015

How are we encouraging predatory publishers?

Some thoughts about the way in which research output is assessed in Greece, and some alternatives

Achilleas Kostoulas in English Language Teaching Research and Teacher Education

Jan 9, 2015

“Exclusively hiring native speakers is not discrimination” Seriously?

As ELT gradualy adopts more inclusive and democratic positions, some language educators just remain unreformed…

Achilleas Kostoulas in English Language Teaching Research and Teacher Education

Dec 19, 2014

Teaching English to Young Learners: Some insights from the literature

As more and more schools…

Achilleas Kostoulas in English Language Teaching Research and Teacher Education

Apr 5, 2014

“Primary English Language Teaching does more harm than good”

School systems worldwide are intensifying ELT courses and start at ever younger ages. Just how good an idea is this?

Achilleas Kostoulas in English Language Teaching Research and Teacher Education

Mar 1, 2014

Fake papers are not the real problem in science

In the aftermath of the retraction of 120 nonsense academic paper, we need to seriously reflect on what made such a debacle possible

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