Syllable Circles are interactive visualizations representing prominence as a feature in short phrases or multi-syllable words. They were designed for computer-aided pronunciation teaching. This study explores whether and how interactive visualizations can affect language learners’ awareness of prominence, or stress, in English pronunciation. The study followed seven learners and three teacher…

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This article investigates the experience of seven refugee students with academic reading during their first year of college, with a focus on the challenges they faced completing assigned readings and the strategies they used to cope with these challenges. Although the participants graduated from American high schools, they were not considered ‘college-ready’, according to their scores in st…

This essay explores the much neglected late modernist poetry of Veronica Forrest- Thomson and reads it alongside Lisa Robertson’s book-length poem The Weather (2001), examining its connection to the city of Cambridge. Locating these works in the context of women writing what is commonly called Cambridge poetry, it investigates how this, as well as the surrounding features of the town, are in…

This article discusses the representation of racist and sexist gazing in two British Muslim women’s novels, namely Fadia Faqir’s My Name Is Salma (2008) and Leila Aboulela’s Minaret (2005). It argues that both novels foreground a binarized model of seeing in which their female Muslim protagonists veer between racialized and sexualized ways of being seen. The texts suggest that a visual e…

Teacher-led collaborative modelling is a type of scaffolded instruction in which the teacher and learners compose and edit an academic text in a process that involves negotiation and shared responsibility. This study examined observed episodes of collaborative modelling of summaries, paraphrases, and other text types in pre-university and university academic writing courses. In interview statem…

This article exemplifies an action research-based approach for addressing conversation skills in an EFL setting. In many EFL contexts, especially those where English is a required subject, getting students to speak can be a challenge. In 2011, at a private Japanese university, a year-long action research project was conducted to help 160 first-year students taking mandatory English classes spea…

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The first edited volume of Susan Sontag’s journals, Reborn, appeared in 2008, four years after her death from cancer; the second four years later, in spring 2012. Sontag knew she suffered no lack of talent, but that a perceived weakness of purpose was the mark of bad faith in one who wanted to serve Art, as a critic or as a practitioner. “I’m not sure what purpose my work serves” (295),…

In this series, we explore technology-related themes and topics. The series aims to discuss and demystify what may be new areas for some readers and to consider their relevance to English language teachers.