TESOLacademic.org  

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For 10 years from 2008 to 2018 Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Academic built up a collection of free at source academic research videos for applied linguistics students, teachers, teacher educators, decision-makers, supporting organisations and other researchers through our YouTube channel.    Many leading academics kindly supported our initiative and in total we host: 24 Keynote Talks (16 in 2008-13 and 8 in 2014-18);  46 Research Paper Talks from scholars who have published in highly regarded peer-reviewed Language Education journals; 8 Featured Publications with talks from book authors. Our work has reached many thousands, it has been a fantastic journey and we thank everyone for their brilliant support.

Our talks, combined with our social media outlets, once put us at the forefront of our field for online continuing professional development (CPD) and today our resources are still regularly accessed and cited. We began our journey at a time when  scholarly video talks on the internet were few and far between and this was something which I, as a full-time Senior Lecturer in TESOL at a British University, wanted to do something about. Much has been achieved and we are proud of the role that we played in what was a newly emerging information age. More about all of this is documented in Jarvis, H. (2017) ‘TESOLacademic.org - our ever changing story.’ ELT Research. Vol. 31. pp. 39-41. It is an understatement to say that a great deal has changed over the years, there are now a plethora of free web sites, YouTube talks, webinars, blogs, Facebook groups, Twitter feeds, podcasts and so on.  Virtually every institution, professional association, publisher or company; together with millions of individuals have an online TESOL presence in some form. Furthermore, whilst journal paywalls regrettably still exist there has clearly been significant improvements and for those with the internet it is easier to access knowledge than it has ever been. In short, knowledge dissemination and discussion has come a long way since we launched in 2008, with CPD  in an online environment taking huge strides forward.   It is against this background, together with the more personal narrative below that in 2018 the last of our Keynotes and Research Paper talks were posted.

In 2016 I made a positive choice to leave full-time employment at a UK-based higher education institution. For me this was a good move as I now get to do all the things that I love about my profession without any of the demotivating constraints. I consider myself fortunate as my work very much continues, but on my own terms. My Language Education research publications continue to generate frequent citations according to Google Scholar (CLICK here for March 21 indicative stats) and notions of: digital-self in an L2; mobile assisted language use (MALU) replacing computer or mobile assisted language learning (CALL); informal second language learning are arguably more relevant today than ever before.  My TESOL-based activities include: external MA examining; online dissertation supervision; peer-reviewing; guest lectures\workshops; invited conference talks; webinars; supporting early career researchers and much more besides. Today TESOLAcademic.org with its huge social media outlets support a number of my activities and it continues to offer cost-effective promotion services.  We also help TESOL-based researchers with the data gathering stages of their studies, this IS A FREE SERVICE, available on a case-by-case basis.  Please contact me to find out more or to discuss other  collaborative ventures. 

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