Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Professor Anne Edwards is standing down as Director of the Department at the end of her term of office at the end of December and Professor Ernesto Macaro is taking...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Professor Ken Mayhew and Dr Susan James from the ESRC Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) have been working on a suite of research projects in collaboration with...
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Huffington Post (UK), 26/11/2012, Press Association A poll [by YouGov] for Oxford University showed the majority (64%) of people surveyed supported teaching Christianity to pupils so they could understand English...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
The EL Gazette, the international monthly newspaper for English language professionals, features our Post Graduate Diploma in Teaching English Language in University Settings (PGDip TELUS) on the back page of...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Congratulations to Carrie Thomas who has been awarded the MSc ALSLA best dissertation prize for 2011/2012 for her dissertation entitled "Living in L1, learning in L2: Language ideologies and practices...
Monday, November 12, 2012
The Rees Centre for Research in Fostering and Education now has its own website. Visit the site to see the Centre’s first Research Newsletter, the launch of its Twitter and...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Congratulations to Ariel Liu who has won second prize in the newly created Oxford University Graduate Short Film Competition. The film, entitled 'Origin of DPhil', is a light-hearted, but serious...
Friday, November 2, 2012
Thursday, October 4, 2012
The Guardian online, Catherine Walter, 18/09/2012 Dr Catherine Walter, a lecturer in applied linguistics in the Department of Education, writes: ‘The straightforward, pre-planned teaching of grammar in English language teaching...
Monday, September 24, 2012
Many congratulations to David Phillips who has been awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship over 24 months to enable him to conduct research on "Educational Policy and its Implementation in the...
Thursday, August 23, 2012
A new study suggests that the introduction of higher tuition fees has made applicants choosier about the course and the university they select. It could mean that institutions that rely...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
