ALLT 2024

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Bridging the Research – Practice Gap: What does it take to publish in high impact journals in applied linguistics

Professional Trainer : Janina Brutt - Griffler

Thursday, 7 March 2019 - From 01:00pm to 04:00pm

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Course Description

This session will focus on research publishing in language learning and teaching. First, I will outline some historical background of the field, which will provide a background to discuss current trends towards quality research, emerging methodological paradigms, the emergence of rigor, transparency and openness. Participants in the session will engage in discussing concrete examples of academic texts and strategies to revise to meet the standards of high impact journals’ demands. There will be time allocated for consultation in small workshop groups.

Course Aim

The session will focus on discussing current trends towards quality research in applied linguistics and on meeting the publishing standards in high impact journals.

Anticipated Outcomes

The delegates will develop a better understanding of the rigor of research standards, research design, the editors' expectations, and the emerging methodological research paradigms in applied linguistics. We will workshop on concrete academic texts and revise samples provided.

Janina Brutt - Griffler

Professor Brutt-Griffler brings more than 20 years of research, senior level administration, and university teaching in language education in the USA and internationally, including at the State University of New York (USA), the University of Vienna (Austria) and the University of York (UK). She served as an external evaluator for academic programs and universities in the Middle East, including in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She is the Academic Vice Dean of Education and Language Programs at the State University of New York, and she has served as the Head of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, and Director of the Research Center in Comparative and Global Education. In these roles, she has directed research teams, large scale projects and programs, developed academic curricula and mentored more than 20 faculty and 225 graduate students annually in research and teaching.
Professor Brutt-Griffler has published numerous books and peer-refereed articles in prestigious venues focusing on contemporary issues in English and multilingual education, literacy development among young learners, teacher and school leader professional development, policy development and dual-language programming to improve educational experiences among all students. Her books include World English: A Study of its Development (winner of an award from the Modern Language Association of the US), Bilingualism and Language Pedagogy, and English and Ethnicity. She is the editor of the International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Wiley-Blackwell).