🧭 Yuyan Gao explored how national curriculum standards in China shape English teachers’ motivations, training, and career paths. Using narrative inquiry, she highlights why some leave teaching early. A powerful lens on policy and profession. 📘#TeacherMotivation #EdPolicy

📚 Fangzhou Wei presented an insightful study on EMI literature learning in a 🇨🇳🇬🇧 Sino-British university. Students prefer 🎭 interactive, genre-rich seminars & highlight key curriculum gaps. A timely call for inclusive, student-informed reform! #EMI #CurriculumDesign

Dr Abdelhamid Ahmed shared how corpus-informed, metadiscourse-rich instruction boosts L2 argumentative writing in Qatar. Key insights: improved coherence, L1-sensitive strategies, and calls for CPD, rubric reform, and policy support. #BAAL2025 #L2Writing #CorpusLinguistics

Dr Hiroyuki Ida explores how Japan’s ELT separates Business & General English—despite learners using both in real life. He calls for a curriculum that reflects learner trajectories and bridges the EGP–EBC gap. #BAAL2025 #JapanELT #BusinessEnglish #CurriculumReform

🧩 Dr Ruth Koro & Dr Lesley Hagger-Vaughan explore the #CLiCproject: co-creating curriculum with teachers to integrate culture & language. A call for agency, not standardisation. 🌍✏️ #TeacherAgency #CurriculumMaking #LanguageEd #EAL

🗣️ Dr Carlos Lindade (U. Porto) asks: Why is pronunciation still sidelined in 🇵🇹 ELT curriculum reforms? His talk reveals how beliefs—not pedagogy—shape its invisibility. Time to rethink what (and whose) English we teach. #BAAL2025 #ELT #Pronunciation #ELF #CurriculumReform

Kicking off the 1st #BAAL Language Curriculum SIG Symposium 2025 with Dr Suha Alansari's talk: "Teachers as Agents of Curriculum Change: Insights from an EFL Primary Classroom.
Interesting reflections on teacher agency and grassroots innovation in EFL settings. 🌍📘

We are still accepting registrations to our BAAL Language Curriculum SIG Symposium, please join us if you can! ⬇️ #Baal #LanguageCurriculum

🚨 Join the 1st #BAAL #LanguageCurriculum SIG Symposium! 🗓 19 June 2025 | ⏰ 9am–12pm BST | 💻 Online & Free for #BAAL members🎤 Plenary: Dr Suha Alansari + 6 talks
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Have you enacted any changes in your curriculum to teaching a language? Consider this call for abstracts for our 1st online conference languagecurriculumbaalsig.weebly.com/events.html #curriculum #teachereducation #languageteaching #teacheragency #languages

Anti-racist language teacher education online conference, June 12 & 13. Keynotes by Ryuko Kubota and L. J. Randolph Jr. Participation is free, pre-registration at anglistik.uni-wuppertal.de/de/bereiche-...
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