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Blog & Updates
This page brings together blog posts, news and updates
about ReaLiTea


Spreading the word further in Autumn 2025: ReaLiTea at two conferences and as part of an interview!
Two conferences and an interview; one message: Teachers and researchers need to work closer to improve language education.
Julia Pittenauer
Nov 19


“There’s a whole system behind this!”: Reflections on the Conference Abstract Writing Workshop
Report on a ReaLiTea workshop that focused on developing writing skills for conference abstracts.
Aysel Sarıcaoğlu Aygan
Oct 20


Validating the Research Literacy Development Framework
A new ReaLiTea publication in the European Journal of Teacher Education.
Eleni Motsiou
Sep 23


Making Research Work for Language Teachers
Summary of a webinar on teacher research (Blume; Teacher Development Webinars; 9 August 2025)
Achilleas Kostoulas
Aug 10


The ReaLiTea Research Literacy Framework
The ReaLiTea Research Literacy Framework is now online! Feel free to share your feedback.
Achilleas Kostoulas
Aug 5


Read, Summarise, Teach: ReaLiTea and OASIS Redefine Research Access
ReaLiTea and the OASIS project share a key aim: To help teachers access and use research to inform their work. Therefore, a key...


Conference review: L2 Writing Research Seminar
On May 24, three ReaLiTea partners from two countries presented their joint research project at the L2 Writing Research Seminar, which...
Christina Ringel
May 25


Our Use of Corpus Linguistics in ReaLiTea to Empower Teacher Development
An overview of how we use Corpus Linguistics to create grounded understandings of how language teachers share knowledge


Collaborative spirit and Turkish hospitality
An update on the Second Transnational Meeting of the ReaLiTea team
Kenan Dikilitas
Apr 16


International Festival of Mentoring Teacher-Research
Information about the upcoming International Festival of Mentoring Teacher-Research (MentrNet event)
Achilleas Kostoulas
Feb 7


Our virtual Community of Practice and the ReaLiTea Framework
Introducing two new ReaLiTea resources: the virtual Community of Practice and the Research Literacy Framework
Achilleas Kostoulas
Feb 5


Starting a New Year!
January 2025 update on the progress of the ReaLiTea project.
Christina Ringel
Jan 20


Online Meeting #2: DONE!
Our second online and third overall team meeting took place yesterday on Zoom. Our team updated one other on the progress of our Work...
Julia Pittenauer
Sep 11, 2024


ReaLiTea: September 2024 Update
Today we held one more coordination meeting, and we are excited to share all the progress that we have made in the ReaLiTea project!
Achilleas Kostoulas
Sep 10, 2024


The Routledge Handbook of Language Teacher Action Research
Upcoming publication by Anne Burns and Kenan Dikilitaş.
Achilleas Kostoulas
Aug 19, 2024


Inclusive communication becoming ReaLiTea - Project infos in German, Greek, Norwegian, Turkish
As promised in a previous project update we have been busy creating online spaces for ReaLiTea in multiple languages . We feel that this...
Christina Ringel
Jul 23, 2024


Multilingual ReaLiTea
Many of us in the ReaLiTea project share a concern about the ways in which scholarly communication is dominated by English, and how the...
Achilleas Kostoulas
Jul 13, 2024


ReaLiTea meeting in Dortmund
Despite a trifecta of airline, railroad and local transport strikes, the ReaLiTea team successfully met for our first onsite meeting in...
Achilleas Kostoulas
Mar 10, 2024


A request to take part in a survey
During today's meeting, Achilleas Kostoulas shared some news about a research project in which he and ReaLiTea member Chrysa Ntai are...
carolynblume
Jan 19, 2024


Starting ReaLiTea
As of this month, ReaLiTea is finally very real. We had our first virtual meeting on 19 January 2024, in which we planned forward for all...
Achilleas Kostoulas
Jan 19, 2024
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