• WWW.TESOLAcademic.org

    Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (#TESOL) Academic is a website for students, lecturers, teacher trainers and trainees, researchers, policy makers and others working in Language Education.

    About

    The original website and subsequent social media outlets was established in 2008 to provide free at source Applied Linguistics YouTube talks for our diverse profession. With kind contributions from leaders in the field, published researchers and book authors we believe there was something for everyone in our broadly defined field. Our data on: YouTube views; website visits; Facebook & LinkedIn members; Twitter (now X) followers all point to a big success story.  At the time there was very little out there and this initiative put us at the forefront of Language Education in a digital era.

    A great deal has changed since 2008 and there are now a plethora of free websites and apps, YouTube talks, webinars, blogs, Facebook groups, X and Bluesky feeds, Instagram posts, podcasts etc. Furthermore, whilst journal paywalls regrettably still exist there has nevertheless been significant improvements. Arguably, it is easier to access, share and discuss knowledge building in Language Education today than it has ever been. 

    In 2023 our website hosts closed down and given the above there seemed little point in rebuilding something similar so we migrated to WordPress as a way of maintaining a presence.  

    Our YouTube talks

    We posted talks from 2008 to 2018 and in total we host 24 Keynote Talks. We also host 46 Research Paper talks from scholars who published in leading peer-reviewed Language Education Journals and 8 Featured Publications from authors.

    Check out our data base documenting all talks including: contributors; titles; year; duration and YouTube URLs from https://tesolacademic.org/our-youtube-talks/

    Visit our YouTube channel. Our keynote talk by Rod Ellis has had 57,000 views, with many others such as: Swales, Tomlinson, Krashen, Phillipson, Larsen-Freeman, Fulcher, Burns, Jenkins and Spada all hitting viewing figures of over 10,000 – by any measure we’ve achieved significant outreach. https://youtube.com/@TESOLacademic?si=zFDygb6RMFebdJsO

    Social media outlets

    Follow us on Blue Sky @tesolacademic.bsky.social (Note for 15 years we were on Twitter but like many we left as it become too toxic.)

    Connect with us on LinkedIn –

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/huw-jarvis-913b595a?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app

    Join our Facebook group – https://www.facebook.com/groups/TESOLacademic/

    Tasks: Digital Media for #CPD and developing a #PLN in #TESOL

    If you are a student, teacher or academic working in TESOL and Applied Linguistics you may want to have a go at our personal learning network (PLN) task document which we hope helps some visitors to make better use of our Keynotes.  LINK -> https://tesolacademic.org/tasks-digital-media-for-cpd-and-developing-a-pln-in-tesol/?frame-nonce=1009153667

    Huw Jarvis Founder and Editor

    I worked in TESOL in numerous capacities and places for over 40 years. In 2016 I stopped working as a full time Senior Lecturer at a British University and I am now semi-retired whereby I undertake occasional commissions – by all means contact me to put out feelers. The 2017 YouTube talk below entitled ‘From digital self & students, to professional self & teachers’ is in some ways a summary of “my key academic contribution to the field”. That said my work has not been restricted to education technology and it has included many other areas of teaching and learning.

    Summary of my 40+ years in TESOL

    See My career in Language Education (CV) for a detailed account of my work from the early days through to semi-retirement. I think it’s been quite a journey!

    Contact email

    tesolacademic@hotmail.com