To celebrate this year’s AAAL in Chicago, Language Policy is pleased to announce that the following articles written by conference attendees will be made fully open access for two months:

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This new publication tries to outline a set of practical principles for how we can make use of translanguaging to do good in Asian ELT: doi.org/10.1177/0033... 1/5

"English language education in Thailand is a failure" is what we often hear. What about the learners who are supposed to be 'failed'? In this article, we show that they in fact have complex plurilingual identities but that sadly current policy objectives are not aligned to them.

In this article, Denchai Prabjandee and I look at how researchers and practitioners collaborate when implementing new pedagogical frameworks. We look at the process of negotiating a new Global Englishes-informed coursebook for mainstream classrooms. Free authors.elsevier.com/a/1ki3c,7ttA...

Language policy is not about language but about how language is instrumentalzied as part of wider exercises of authority/power.

Now available for orders is this edited book, in which a chapter of mine also appears. This chapter is special because it's the first time I have compared the Thai and Slovene contexts, focusing specifically on language policy issues in higher education. 1/2

My latest article is out: 'Language and trust: Struggles for recognition of migrant people in the political realm' @fujomedia.bsky.social @dcuresearch.bsky.social Open Access & supported by @researchireland.bsky.social and @dublincityuni.bsky.social FHSS. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

A few highlights from my book: Language policy doesn't involve managing language(s) but exercising authority to impose new norms in how we interact. We don't manage language itself but who, how, where and when can participate in discourse. #linguistics #appliedlinguistics #sociolinguistics 1/x

The splendid cover of our book is a painting by Habib Bouhawel depicting meetings of the Jama’at taht al-sur literary group at the Below the Ramparts Cafe, in which key figures of Tunisia’s literary and cultural elite debate independence.

Joe Lo Bianco @joelobianco.bsky.social · 2y ago

It’s out! Ten years of long distance collaboration, much respect to my co-author & friend Fethi and all who collaborated. We feel the book makes a contribution to language policy (theory, critique and method), to language rights and problem-solving. www.bibdsl.co.uk/bds-images/l...

My book is now officially out. Please drop a request to your library. If you want to order individually, see discount code below. More info here: www.cambridge.org/9781009385121 #appliedlinguistics #linguistics #languagepolicy

Now in volume/issue, an analysis of how major publishers advertise their #ELT textbook series. Free PDFs: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FVBUD... #TESOL #appliedlinguistics

Ah yes academia. We can complain about how the big publishers exploit us, but what about our own behaviour? How about the author who, in their response to a somewhat critical review of their manuscript, makes a strong hint to their identity and 1/2

Use AI, they said, it will save you time with the gruntwork... (don't worry, I ended up doing them by hand)

Hello new non-Twitter-but-kind-of-like-Twitter world. The main thing I've been doing recently is writing a book, which is finally coming out early 2025. More detail here: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

I've created an Applied Linguistics and Second Language Studies starter pack for new BlueSky users (I credit @danielrisbell.bsky.social for the idea). Please share and let me know if you'd like to be added to or removed from the list! go.bsky.app/VZPgwMD