All entries for May 2011

Developments since December 2010

Since the last blog post Penny Trigg (formerly of the British Council) has been making great progress with two projects: (1) sorting out and taking notes from the archives of the A.S. Hornby Educational Trust, which celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year (this work has been sponsored by the Trust itself) - this work has borne fruit in a presentation at the IATEFL conference in Brighton in April 2011 by Roger Bowers (Chair of the Trust), which made extensive use of Warwick ELT Archive resources and research, as well as the research Penny has more recently been carrying out (Roger and I are also writing a piece for ELT Journal on A.S. Hornby's life and legacy); and (2) building up a comprehensive bibliography of British Council publications in the field of ELT (this work has been financed under the research grant made to the Warwick ELT Archive, mentioned in previous blog entries). In April we heard that the Council is willing to extend this project, with further funding, and the fruits of our labours will appear in due course in the form of further texts uploaded to the Council's Milestones in ELT website, associated notes on the Warwick ELT Archive website, and an annotated bibliography / mini-history of British Council involvement in ELT over the years, to be published in pdf and possibly book form. Not to mention updated catalogues of the Archive, which have been made possible by the British Council's grant. So we're busy!!

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