Being a final year PhD student in the department of Applied Linguistics at Swansea University, I have had the fortunate opportunity to present my research to friends, colleagues and experts in the field, across nine different conference organisations, in six different countries. My research focuses on the representation and processing of Welsh grammatical gender in…Continue Reading PhD Conferencing with Tesni Galvin
1) Tell us a little bit about yourself (where you come from, etc.) I’m Nathaniel and come from a very bland little town called Blackwater in Surrey – where the water isn’t actually black. My mother was a hairdresser, and my father was a junior school headmaster. Neither were strict, and between them, they instilled…Continue Reading Where are they now? Nathaniel Reed
I’m Rachel, an Applied Linguistics and English Language student. In my second year I had the opportunity to take part in a Swansea University Paid Internship (SPIN). My particular internship was based at the Centre for Ageing & Dementia Research (CADR), which is a chapter of the Centre for Innovative Ageing at Swansea University. My…Continue Reading My experience taking part in a SPIN internship by Rachel Cooper
Alumna of Swansea University, Beatrice Massa, talks to Shawn Lee about her work as a language technician at Phrasee. Beatrice completed her undergraduate BA (Hons) English Language and MA TESOL at Swansea in 2019 and 2021 respectively. While at Swansea, Beatrice made the opportunities the university and the department could offer, and worked as a…Continue Reading Shawn Lee Interviews Beatrice Massa, Language Technician at Phrasee
In this month’s blog we welcome an insight into Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International), Professor Judith Lamie’s career. An accomplished researcher in EFL (English as Foreign Language), Professor Lamie joined Swansea University in 2021. International Higher Education has always had its challenges. We’ve seen changing patterns of demand and delivery, higher student expectations, changing employer needs and increasingly…Continue Reading From EFL teacher to Pro-Vice-Chancellor, International – by Professor Judith Lamie
In this second post with Joe Seaton, Martin Lee-Paterson talks about teacher training in Afghanistan. If you are interested in anything Joe has discussed, you can access his website here….Continue Reading Being a Teacher Trainer in Afghanistan with Joe Seaton
In this first post with Joe Seaton, Martin Lee-Paterson talks about teaching in remote and hostile environments….Continue Reading Teaching in Remote and Hostile Environments with Joe Seaton
By Shawn Lee, Hollie Chappell and Vanessa Ku. COVID-19 made me do it – because classes and groupwork went online, my notes and studying methods turned digital too. In this day and age, there are plenty of note-taking applications and technology that can speed up the note-taking process and transform your productivity. Hello everyone! I’m…Continue Reading Study Tool and Tech Review
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 If you’re at all involved in academic twitter, you’ve probably come across a pattern of green and yellow squares that looks something like this. No, your friends, classmates, and colleagues haven’t joined a cult, and no, these posts aren’t some sort of secret nerd code you’re not privy to. Rather, they’re result sheets for…Continue Reading How Wordle Went 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
This is a translation of a short comment piece (in Welsh) by Applied Linguistics Honorary Research Fellow Steve Morris which appeared on the Golwg 360 website in February 2020 It relates to a Welsh language version of ‘Wordle’ – ‘Gairglo’ – created by Dr Rodolfo Piskorski, a Brazilian who has learnt Welsh and was the…Continue Reading A Few Words about ‘Gairglo’, the Welsh Language ‘Wordle’, by Steve Morris