Achilleas Kostoulas
@achilleaskostoulas.com
Applied Linguistics & language teacher education. Stream may contain rants. Views own. Content in 🇬🇧 & 🇬🇷. Visit website ⬇️ for (somewhat) more serious content. AchilleasKostoulas.com
This is a periodic reminder that we are keen to publish work on power, identity, and representation and their intersections with #language education. achilleaskostoulas.com/2026/02/09/e...
Language and Power in Education: Call for Papers (EJELR)
Call for papers in critical applied linguistics. EJELR invites research on language, power, education, and classroom-based inquiry.
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Soon, I’ll have students younger than my website.
It took me about half a century to figure it out, but it turns out that I don’t really want to be a custodian of the Republic of Letters. I just want to make homemade cereal bars and bake croissants.
Κάθε φορά λέω ότι θα είναι η τελευταία που οργανώνω εγώ κάτι.
Παρεμπιπτόντως εδώ είναι το παλιό σάιτ του Younger με ο,τι ξέρουμε για την γραμμική Α' web.archive.org/web/20240125... εδώ ανεβάζει το περιεχόμενο που είχε στο KU www.academia.edu/117949722/Yo... κι εδώ lineara.xyz τα θραύσματα κι οι πιθανολογούμενοι φθόγγοι ή πώς τα λένε.
Linear A Texts: Homepage
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I am sure I am not the only one who has ever asked AI something and felt impressed —until I realised it can't be right! That pause (the "wait, what? moment) is the start of epistemic vigilance.
☑️ καφές ☑️ κούπα χωρίς βρισιές ☑️ λάμπα για να μη φαίνονται οι ρυτίδες ☑️ σχέδιο μαθήματος Όλα καλά, πάμε για μάθημα
In some ways, October is a month of quiet recalibration: from focused writing in the summer to the teaching-first Winter semester, and from the turmoil of September to a more predictable pace.
October 2025: Notes on Teaching, Research, and Writing (Achilleas Kostoulas)
October 2025 update on publications, workshops and projects: reflections on teaching, collaboration and academic life this autumn.
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On 26 September we mark the European Day of Languages. We celebrate linguistic diversity — but which languages do we actually sustain, and which ones do we quietly leave behind? #EuropeanDayOfLanguages #Multilingualism achilleaskostoulas.com/2025/09/26/e...
European Day of Languages: What are we really celebrating?
Reflections on the European Day of Languages: from celebration to sustaining diversity in classrooms, democracy, AI, and everyday practice.
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Today’s challenge will be managing to fit in 180 minutes of workshop activities in 120 minutes of workshop.
Having published modestly and reviewed a lot, here’s what I know about peer review. #PeerReviewWeek2025 achilleaskostoulas.com/2018/05/01/p...
Peer review: The good, the bad and the ugly (Achilleas Kostoulas)
This blogpost by Dr Achilleas Kostoulas discusses some challenges of the peer review process, and what can be learned from them.
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1. Hanhwa in English in the apartment #LinguisticLandscape of Seoul. Apartment branding adds a lot of HUGE text to the skyline of Seoul and is a really interesting topic that generates a lot of popular discussion . . . Do I dare resurrect my apartment name thread from the Other Place on Bluesky?
From vivas to complexity theory, AI guidelines to Dark Academia: a quick round-up of what’s been happening on my desk. Read here 👉 achilleaskostoulas.com/2025/09/09/n...
Notes & updates: September 2025 (Achilleas Kostoulas)
A round-up of recent highlights: a doctoral defence, new and old projects (ReaLiTea, AI-Lang, LocaLLing), calls for papers, reading notes, and behind-the-scenes reflections.
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📢 We are now accepting manuscripts for our Fall 2025 issue! Check out the guidelines & make your submission here: tesolal.columbia.edu
Quite interesting that some stickers for sale here feature Korean and others feature English. Do cats in Korea speak Korean? But baking needs English? Regardless, a lot going on in the sticker #LinguisticLandscape!
We are always “proud to announce”, “honoured to participate”, “excited to be part of”. Are there other, more authentic ways to talk about our work in academia? patthomson.net/2025/08/21/i...
I’ve just been published and I feel…
When Dr. Sarah’s first peer-reviewed article appeared in the Journal of Sustainability and Urban Policy, her social media announcements said: “Delighted to share my latest research on ur…
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🎉 Thrilled to see the article Juup Stelma and I wrote “Revisiting Complex Dynamic Systems Theory: Empowering Language Teachers and Teaching” ranking among the most visited in TESOL Journal for 2024. 🔗: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Revisiting complex dynamic systems theory: Empowering language teachers and teaching
This article revisits complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) and provides a new synthesis that, the authors argue, may empower language teachers. The particular focus is on the interplay between chang....
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In a world where many are actively working against us, we must continue ensure that this is true
Princess Moss@neapresident.bsky.social · last yr.No matter where they were born or the language they speak, all students—all students—are welcome in our public schools.
Did You Write This?: Or Why You Can't Spell "Plagiarism" without "AI" radicalscholarship.com/2025/07/21/d...
Did You Write This?: Or Why You Can’t Spell “Plagiarism” without “AI”
[Header Photo by Lauren Mancke on Unsplash] “Did you write this?” I once asked a sophomore in my advanced English class. The student was one of three siblings I would teach, and their m…
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“Receptive bilinguals are bilingual […] If you think understanding isn’t enough, maybe you’re mistaking loudness for depth” ——— Kevin Wong ( @kevinwongla.bsky.social ) : What I’d Say about Bilingualism if I Wasn’t Afraid to Hurt your Feelings” (👉🏻 m.youtube.com/shorts/dDAUT...)
What I’d Say About Bilingualism if I Wasn’t Afraid to Hurt Your Feelings | The Bilingual Professor
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Just in case there was any doubt, ChatGPT 5.0 still makes up completely random citations that don't exist and should not be used for literature search.
In In 1903, respected professor Jan Baudoin de Courtenay was asked to update Russia's most famous dictionary. He shocked everyone by adding profanity to its pages. 📖 This post tells the story, and also discusses different approaches to doing #linguistics. 👉🏻 achilleaskostoulas.com/2023/04/26/c...
This reminds me of this excellent new article that shows how ChatGPT actually increase language anxiety and linguistic insecurity for Chinese international students for found themselves relying on it more and more in ways that took away their voice. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
You don’t need to prove yourself: A raciolinguistic perspective on Chinese international students’ academic language anxiety and ChatGPT use
Adopting a raciolinguistic perspective, this study examines the Chinese international students’ anxiety on academic English writing under ChatGPT use …
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last yr.“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
What if you’ve been doing research all along —without calling it that? New blog about our work at the @realitea.bsky.social project & webinar by @caroblume.bsky.social on turning everyday teaching into reflective inquiry. #LanguageTeaching #ResearchLiteracy #ReaLiTea link.kostoulas.com/ytwpz348
