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naeemalanguages.bsky.social @naeemalanguages.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

What works in ESOL? Evidence from Research. Cathy and Katharine aced this ! #natecla25

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Fade or flourish. Is it useful to have cross-sector discussions about language education. #BigQuestion

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Inspiring discussions from Coalition for Language Education event, a reminder of the importance of translanguaging and a helpful reminder of this fabulous resource ourlanguages.co.uk

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Our Languages

ESOL research project

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Coalition for language education. Amazing turnout for this launch event. #ESOL

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Kathryn Sidaway @kathrynsidaway.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Join us online on Thurs 24th April when Amy Jowett (Xenia), Becky Winstanley (English for Action London) & Mel Cooke (King's College, London) will present their research on participatory ESOL teaching. It’s free to attend, all welcome! forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... @cathywint.bsky.social

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Microsoft Forms

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Really looking forward to this session. There’s still time to register …… #ESOL #amplifyFE

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

#100daysofphd Some reading on action research today. Pondering the relationship between doing the (good) research and writing (well) about the research - and how these are intertwined in AR.

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

#100daysofphd Have enjoyed a 1st class upgrade for my train ride home, the bliss of a double table all to myself as I continue the read through my final draft, coloured highlighters fully exploited. #EdDlife #phdlife

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Love a bit of train travel for some focused study time. Time for a re-read, have highlighter pens at the ready. #phdlife #edlife London here I come.

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Day 24 #researchadvent I am looking forward to an action packed 2025, both professionally and personally. There’s the ESOL research community events, the Yorkshire ESOL ITE meetings, NATECLA national conference. And most excited to have tix for Lloyd Cole, Pulp and Alannis Morissette 🎶

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I need to figure out what my barrier is to doing that now tbh. It’s been on my to do list for a while

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Day 23 #ResearchAdvent Dare I say it, in six months I may well have graduated! Yep, it is tantalisingly close. And I need to Dig Dip and get get a paper together to submit to ……. Well, step 1 is to choose a journal to submit to!

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Yep. Which is why I know they are the perfect gift 🥰

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Day 22 #ResearchAdvent The perfect gift for a researcher is some Lovely Stationary. A nice dotted notebook that can be used as a bullet journal, a nice pen and a couple of highlighters. Oh, and a desk by a window and a log burner to write in said journal. 😜

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Day 21 #ResearchAdvent my theoretical framework is an under explored aspect of CoP, I used the four dualities of the Learning Architecture to explore the back channel environment created by the text-chat while-observing. #CELTA #ESOL #UKFE

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Good luck to Bradford College, a finalist for the #ESOL Beacon Award www.aoc.co.uk/awards/beaco... #FE

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Beacon Awards 2024/25

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Day 20 #researchAdvent I would like to meet other ESOL teacher educators in #FE Not just CELTA and CertTESOL, but those doing other English & ESOL specialist pathways. What is our signature pedagogy?

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

….. I took a narrative approach to the the story of data collection & analysis and my claims to evidence. Drawing on the principles of AR suggested my McNiff (who was hugely influential throughout my AR)

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Day 19 #ResearchAdvent my approach to analysis was Reflexive Thematic Analysis, with a twist of Action Research. There was an extended ‘familiarisation’ stage through each cycle, before coding started once all data was collected and transcribed. And I didn’t present my ‘findings’ by theme ….

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Day 18 #ResearchAdvent having to dig deep this late in the year to think of inspiration and motivation. I talk about my EdD as my ‘at home adventure’, it’s my Everest. That has carried me through this last 6 years. And I get inspiration from all my fellow doctoral travellers.

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Mmm, yes I did take a look. Tricky date that! Maybe! Thanks for the heads up. 😔

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Day 17 #ResearchAdvent I get professional nourishment from my action research www.bera.ac.uk/blog/the-act.... Rest - well. As a peri-menopausal woman need I say more? Health - tennis, swimming, woodland walks and batch cooking of veggie goodness (and the occasional *hic* 🍪 🍫 🍷)

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The action research gardener: How doing action research restores my emotional energy

A central question to my action research (AR) asks how a teacher-educator can improve her practice to support trainee-teacher learning during teaching practice (TP). My research was prompted by...

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Oh, no. I missed that one 😤 Are you?

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Day 16 #ResearchAdvent Public engagement has been vital throughout my EdD. Selfishly it’s helped move my thinking forward at all stages of my research & im a huge advocate of practitioner research being systematic enquiry made public.

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Trains are fabulous. There’s something about the movement and the window and the set amount of time and the promise of something fun at the end that really focuses the mind 😊

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Day 15 #ResearchAdvent 1st favourite place to study is on my small ikea desk by the bay window overlooking the garden. But I’m also partial to a good train journey, it’s a real treat to go 1st class to London on the Grand Central line.

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Day 14 #ReaearchAdvent In three years I’ll look back and think ‘I’ll never get tired of people calling me Dr Cathy’ 😆

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Day 13 #ResearchAdvent The thing I love most about doing my EdD is the joy of creating something. The struggles of the blank page rewarded by words that become a thesis.

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Haha. Yes, yes it is. Overlooking the garden. Best room in the house 😁

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Day 12 #ResearchAdvent Appreciation for Big Sis as she does the heavy lifting in caring for our parents, for Husband who lets me hog the wood burning stove where my desk is, for Son for being his best Teenage Self.

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Day 11 ResearchAdvent I am excited for the January meeting of the ESOL Research Community, where @steve11brown.bsky.social will be exploring the relevance & application of current literature for ESOL. Deets and sign up here padlet.com/kathrynsidaw...

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Your ESOL Research Community

Connecting ESOL teachers with research through online events - co-ordinated by Cathy Clarkson and Kathryn Sidaway

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Day 10 #ResearchAdvent Amazingly not so freaked out about methodology anymore. What are you doing and more importantly why are you doing it that way. What does the methodology allow us to know (and what doesn’t it allow). More intrigued by the philosophical discussion than I thought I would be!

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Day 9 #ResearchAdvent I have attended conferences more than published through my EdD. I’ve had an article in RaPAL, and a couple of blog posts, here’s the one for BERA on the awesomeness of action research www.bera.ac.uk/person/cathy...

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Cathy Clarkson

Cathy Clarkson started teaching English as a Foreign Language in China, before returning to England where she has worked in further education, firstly to teach ESOL before moving into initial...

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Day 8 #ResearchAdvent Challenges have been personal more than research tbh, I’ve lost both my in-laws. Both sudden & unexpected, & my parents deteriorating health has meant I’ve become a carer for both. Dementia is a cruel disease. Couldn’t do any of this without support of my partner and Big Sis

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Day 7. #ResearchAdvent I think everyone should watch Tara Babazon’s channel, but especially her three vlogs on ontology, epistemology and methodology youtu.be/75cmEkiZk08

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Vlog 78 - Ontology

YouTube video by Tara Brabazon's Legacy Content

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I hear that. Imposter Syndrome is strong 😔

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Day 5 #ResearchAdvent I want others to know that action research is a valid and empowering form of research, and would highly recommend this ETF guide www.et-foundation.co.uk/wp-content/u...

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Emily Bryson @emilybrysonelt.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Looking for a creative, fun, winter/festive/Christmas themed lesson? I have a FREE activity idea for you! This was inspired by #NotAGingerbreadMan. Students create something that IS NOT a candle, snowman, bell, santa, etc. www.emilybrysonelt.com/its-not-a-sn... #TEFL #Teachingideas #ESOL #YLTsig

Image of a free festive activity created by EmilyBrysonELT.com. There are six hand drawn images of half a candle, half a santa, half a stocking, half a snowman, half a Christmas tree and half a bell. Students draw the other half to make the object look like something it is not. Perfect activity for critical thinking. Available to download via the link in the post.

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Day 4 #ResearchAdvent My best conference experience was NATECLA24, giving a 3-min pitch for the ESOLResearch community at the Teachmeet, and seeing so many hands raised when I asked who’d attended any of our events, and then people coming up to me afterwards to chat. @kathrynsidaway.bsky.social

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Day 3 #ResearchAdvent This year I have really valued the opportunity to present my research, for the discussions that helped move my thinking forward, and all the fabulous people that have influenced my journey.

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Day 2 #ResearchAdvent Why? Well, because it’s there. This is my Everest. It’s my ‘at home adventure’. To live my values as a Lifelong Learner, because learning to teach is a lifelong pursuit.

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Day 1 #ResearchAdvent I am an FE teacher educator, my specialism is ESOL. I’m in my final year EdD, interested in how we learn to teach through observation using Wenger’s concepts of Learning Architecture and action research to explore synchronous text-chat while peer observing. #CELTA #ESOL

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Are you doing your EdD through UoH?? Or somewhere else?

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Cathy Clarkson @cathywint.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Aiming to be finished this year!! The end is in sight ☺️

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