Presentations

ELT Conferences, Training & Workshops

(2024) IATEFL 2024, Brighton. 16/04/24 Workshop: Never the twain shall meet? A researcher-teacher collaboration project

(2024) Everyone Academy. Webinar for Online teacher training for ELT practitioners in India and Pakistan. 02/04/24 WhatsApp to extend language learning outside class.

(2024) TESOL Spain, Cáceres 09/03/24 Maintaining Motivation: The loneliness of the long-distance language learner

(2024) Exams Catalunya Teacher Workshop Barcelona 14/02/24 Using WhatsApp to extend Target Language practice outside the classroom

(2024) IATEFL TTEdSIG & TESOL SPAIN Professional Development Day for Teacher Educators Zaragoza, 03/02/24 Plenary The seven ages of EL(Teachers): Promoting teacher development across the career span

(2023) TESOL Spain, Madrid 14/03/23 Never the twain shall meet? A researcher-teacher collaboration project

(2023) APAC ELT Conference, Barcelona, 03/02/23 Maximising Target Language Practice Outside Class Successful Online Tasks

(2021, 2022) Motivation in Language Learning Guest input session on Trinity Dip TESOL Programme for Dublin TEFL 

(2021) British Council Teaching English Webinar: World Teachers’ Day: Using WhatsApp in Interactive Tasks. Video

(2021) Plenary. Using WhatsApp to promote remote interaction . Biruni University (Turkey) First International English Language Teaching conference.

(2020) TESOL Spain What learners want TESOL-SPAIN 43rd Annual National Convention, Salamanca, Spain 07/03/2020

(2020) Old dog, New tricks? CPD for experienced Ts IH 2020 IH ELT Conference, Barcelona, Spain 08/02/2020

(2019) Exams Catalunya Getting Ahead in ELT – Where do I go from here? 7th Exams Catalunya ELT Conference, Barcelona, Spain 16/11/2019

(2019) IATEFL 2019  Integrating WhatsApp into a general adult EFL programme IATEFL, Liverpool, UK. 04/04/2019

(2019) IH 2019 IH 2019 What’s up with WhatsApp? IH ELT Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 09/02/2019

(2018) Designing CPD Exams Catalunya 6th ELT Conference. 6^th Exams Catalunya ELTConference, Barcelona, Spain, 17/11/2017.

(2018) How to get ahead in ELT Innovate 2018. Innovate ELT Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 12/05/2018.

(2018) IATEFL 2018. Taking the ‘Ought’ out of Autonomy IATEFL, Brighton, UK, 10/04/2018.

(2017) IH 2017 What learners want. IH ELT Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 04/02/2017.

(2016) IATEFL 2016 Loneliness of long-distance learner. IATEFL, Birmingham, UK, 13/04/18.

(2016) Taking the ‘Ought’ out of Autonomy. IH ELT Conference, 06/02/2016.

(2015) IATEFL 2015 Getting inside their heads. IATEFL, Manchester, UK, 13/04/15.

(2015) APAC 2015. Associació de Professors d’Anglès de Catalunya, APAC, Barcelona, 20/02/2015.

(2015) The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Language Learner. IH ELT Conference, 07/02/2015

(2014) Plenary: Researching your teaching, IH ELT Conference, 07/02/2014.

(2013) IATEFL 2013 Ideal L2 self. IATEFL, Liverpool, UK, 10/04/2013. Winner of the Pilgrims Humanising Language Teaching Scholarship, 2013. #ELTchat discussion related to presentation – summary here

(2013) IH 2013 Imagination: The untapped resource, IH ELT Conference, 09/02/2013.

(2012) Getting Inside Their Heads. IH ELT Conference, 04/02/2012

(2011) Crossing the Rubicon: Using Imagery and Imagination to Motivate EFL Students, IH ELT Conference, 05/02/2011.

Academic conferences

(2024) “It’s like you could use what you were seeing in class”: Learners’ and teachers’ reactions to using WhatsApp as part of an EFL programme. With Bridget Murphy. Psychology in Language Teaching PLL5 conference, Madrid, 17/05/24.

(2024) Mobile-Assisted Language Learning: The use of WhatsApp in the foreign language classroom. With Bridget Murphy. GRAL Research Seminar, Barcelona 18/01/24

(2022) ELT Research in Action (Online): Working together towards shared goals. Conference organiser 22-23/04/22

(2019) ELT Research in Action: Bringing together two communities of practice. Conference organiser 26-27/04/2019

(2017) An Ideal L2 Self intervention: Effects on the development of Catalan EFL learners’ possible L2 selves. European Second Language Association. EuroSLA, University of Reading, UK, 01/09/2017.

(2017) ELT Research in Action. University of Barcelona, Spain. Conference organiser. 21-22/04/2017

(2017) Designing tasks to develop an Ideal Second Language Self in adult EFL learners in a Catalan context. International Association of Task-Based Teaching and Learning. TBLT conference. University of Barcelona, Spain, 20/04/2017.

(2014) An Ideal L2 Self Intervention: Implications for Self-Concept, Motivation and Engagement with the Target Language (Individual Paper). International Conference on Motivational Dynamics and Second Language Acquisition, University of Nottingham.

(2013) An Ideal L2 Self Intervention: Practical Application and Implications. PhD Seminar: Mixed Methods research in SLA: Benefits and challenges. University of Barcelona, Spain.

(2011) An Ideal L2 Self Intervention: Implications for Self-Concept, Motivation and Engagement with the Target Language. European Second Language Association, EuroSLA. Doctoral Workshop, University of Stockholm, Sweden, 07/09/2011.

Publications

Mackay, J. (2024) Using WhatsApp for extra language practice: tips and tricks. Modern English Teacher 33 (2)

Mackay, J & Wogan, T. (2023) (Eds.) ELT Research in Action 2022, Working together towards shared goals. IATEFL, ISBN: 978-1-912588-46-6

Murphy, B., Mackay, J. & Tragant, E. (2023) ‘Ok I think I was totally wrong:) new try!’: language learning in WhatsApp through the provision of delayed corrective feedback provided during and after task performance. The Language Learning Journal 51 (4).

Mackay, J., Andria, M., Tragant, E. & Pinyana, A. (2021).  WhatsApp as part of an EFL programme: participation and interaction ELT Journal, 75 (2)

Tragant, E., Pinyana, A., Mackay, J., & Andria, M. (2021) Extending language learning beyond the EFL classroom through WhatsApp Computer Assisted Language Learning, DOI:10.1080/09588221.2020.1854310

Mackay, J, Birello, M. & Xerri, D. (2020). (Eds.) ELT Research in Action: Bringing together two communities of practice. IATEFL; Faversham ISBN 978-1-912588-32-9, Free to download here.

Mackay, J. (2020). Exploring EFL learner expectations through participant-generated imagery. In Aliaga Salas, L. & Oncevska Ager, E. (Eds.) Creating Quiet Reflective Spaces: Language teacher research professional development IATEFL, Faversham, UK.

Mackay, J. (2019). An ideal second language self intervention: Development of possible selves in an English as a Foreign Language classroom context. System, 81, 50 – 62.

Mackay, J. Birello, M, Xerri, D. (Eds.) (2018). ELT Research in Action: Bridging the Gap between Research and Classroom Practice. IATEFL, Faversham. ISSBN 978-1-912588-08-4 Free to download here.

Mackay, J. (2018). English in your own time. IATEFL Voices 263, 11 ISSN 2412-6578.

Mackay, J. (2016). An ideal L2 self intervention: implications for self-concept, motivation and engagement with the target language. Unpublished PhD thesis.

Mackay, J. (2014). Applications and implications of the L2 Motivational Self System in a Catalan EFL context. In K. Csizér & M. Magid (Eds.), The Impact of Self-Concept on Language Learning (pp. 377–402). Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. ISBN 9781783092369.

Mackay, J. (2013). Relat personal / Personal account. 20 llengües, 40 relats, 60 anys de l’Escola d’Idiomes Moderns / 20 languages, 40 stories, 60 years of the Escola d’Idiomes Moderns. Publicacions I Edicions de l’Universitat de Barcelona. ISBN 9788447537938

Mackay, J. (2013). Questionnaire Design and Analysis: Report on a workshop by Zoltán Dörnyei. ELT Research, 28 (1), 27-29.

Mackay, J. (2009). Attitudes towards Target Language cultures among EFL learners at a Catalan university. Relationship between attitudes, motivation and rate of learning. Unpublished MA dissertation, University of Barcelona.

Awards and scholarships

(2013) Pilgrims Humanising Language Teaching Scholarship winner.

(2012) IATEFL ReSIG Scholarship award to attend Prof. Zoltán Dörnyei’s workshop ‘Questionnaire Design and Analysis’ at the University of Coventry.

(2009) Premi extraordinari Màsters Oficials, Universitat de Barcelona. Prize for highest GPA in Official MA programme, 2009.