Academia is like a pie-eating contest where the reward is more pie

Love this art by Christopher Vorlet in The Chronicle of Higher Education. This is about how those in the academia experience anxiety and the never-ending feeling that there is not such thing as “enough”. I was shocked by this quote: “Academia is like a pie-eating contest where the reward is more pie.”

Productivity anxiety: the uneasy feeling that there is always something left to do.

You can read the whole piece here:

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Feeling-Anxious-You-re-Not/243117

 

Co-authorship and productivity: insights from Parish et al. (2018)

The following is a selection of quotes from the following paper: Parish AJ, Boyack KW, Ioannidis JPA (2018) Dynamics of co-authorship and productivity across different fields of scientific research. PLoS ONE 13(1): e0189742. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189742 You can find here something I wrote co-authorship in the area of applied linguistics where I call for a re-evaluation of … Read more

Empleo y aprendizaje de lenguas en el Reino Unido

  I Jornadas Vocational Guidance In Clil (VGCLIL). Universidad de Murcia. 23 October, 2018. CLIL en contextos profesionales.Acceso a la presentación online. Links: Languages for the future. British Council 2017. The value of languages. Cambridge Language Sciences. 2017. SMEs language survey. British Academy. 2015   Algunos datos sobre VGCLIL (Prof. Purificación Sánchez Hernández, Coordinadora en España … Read more

Free copy of our latest paper in Computer Assisted Language Learning

Our article, Language teachers’ perceptions on the use of OER language processing technologies in MALL, has just been published on Computer Assisted Language Learning Journal, Taylor & Francis Online. 50 free eprints can be downloaded from the following URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/epWFWhVAGFZ4yRSIaMcA/full Get yours now!!!! Abstract Combined with the ubiquity and constant connectivity of mobile devices, and with … Read more

Telecollaboration research: opening roundtable @unicollaboration

TILA project TECOLA project Negotiation of meaning: telecollaborative exchanges Varonis & Gass 1985: triggers, misunderstanding, absence of feedback, self-correction, facework The YES OIE telecollaboration project TALIS: proyectotalis.com EVALUATE project: teacher training in telecollaboration (primary and secondary)