If we focus on social action, language policy is the discourse management of people. Highly recommend reading "Language Policy in Action" by @kristofsavski.bsky.social Read my full review here: rdcu.be/eHSQa Thanks to @bonacina-pugh.bsky.social and the team at LP @springernature.com

🚨 New publication on critical peer mentoring in higher ed: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🤓 2 year collaborative autoethnography + three constructs: identity, radical praxis, and ideological becoming 🌏 Result: a model that can scaffold faculty development workshops or peer mentoring programs

Critical peer mentoring: Aligning values and practice as professional development

Critical peer mentoring grounded in the concepts of radical praxis, writing centre practitioner (WCP) identity, and ideological becoming can be a transformative practice. Utilising collaborative au...

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"I'm not a specialist in science" "I'm not an English teacher" What does it take to become a #CLIL teacher in Kazakhstan? We found that English teachers and content subject teachers take very different paths. Implications for STEM, EMI and CLIL teacher training more broadly. bit.ly/CLILidentities

(PDF) Forging CLIL Teacher Identities in Kazakhstan: Developmental Pathways of Two University Teachers

PDF | As universities in Kazakhstan continue to address the challenges that come with developing English-medium instruction (EMI) programs, university... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

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The Macarena came on the radio and I was surprised to know my 5-yo already knows the moves. “Come on Papa, everyone knows the Macaroni Song!” 🙄 🤣

Happy to share a book chapter, and perhaps my favorite solo-authored piece to date. 🤓 What benefits, challenges, and identity construction processes do Kazakhstani multilingual teachers experience? 🌏🤨 What language ideologies are enacted in our research? 🤔 bit.ly/criticalEMI

(PDF) "I Just Opened My Heart": Challenges and Contradictions in Multilingual EMI Teacher Identity Construction

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Trump’s Executive Order on “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools is premised on some strange logic. I understand ideologies as dynamic, contested, assemblages of values. How can they be “false”?

Challenge accepted 😝

Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 2y ago

hard to believe that we aren't living at peak handbook. imagine living in 1980. a new handbook every 15 seconds. the drains literally clogged with them.

I learned today that 39 is not too old to go sledding. It is, however, too old to go sledding and not need ibuprofen afterwards 🤦‍♂️

Teaching graduate students about research literacy? How about creating opportunities to participate in research communities? www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/eight...

Eight steps to launch a student-led peer-review journal

To help PhD students gain the skills required for publication and improve research literacy, consider an in-house academic journal

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My 11yo just asked me why I’m having coffee again.

Textbook example of how language ideologies are reinforced or challenged in hundreds of everyday interactions.

Nelson Flores@nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 2y ago

At School… Teacher: Bilingualism is great. Child: ¡Soy bilinguë! T: It is English time! C: 😳 Later in the day… T: Ser bilinguë vale por dos. C: I am bilingual! T: ¡Español por favor! C: 😳 At Home… Parent: What did you learn en la escuela hoy? C: 😳. Is it English time or Spanish time?

Writing tip: After you finish, go back & cut all the adverbs. Then all the adjectives. Then all the other words. Eat the paper. Now you're free.

Resharing this starter pack with some new additions. Still happy to add more folks! go.bsky.app/Yv8eX9

I’ve done portfolio grading in middle and high school classrooms. This semester I’m trying it out with graduate students. Lots of choice and chances for creativity.

So much academic writing advice is just “false promises and cheap tricks” - novice writers deserve better, as @patthomson.bsky.social reminds us

Pat Thomson@patthomson.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’m making a comeback by explaining why I stopped blogging patthomson.net/2025/01/01/p...

And the critical educational linguist might add that the label “the real world” is always up for grabs, that teaching students to celebrate and leverage linguistic diversity is in fact preparing them for a linguistically heterogenous future, in turn helping preserve the value of that heterogeneity

Nelson Flores@nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 2y ago

As an educational linguist I would add that efforts to linguistically prepare students for ‘the real world’ erase the linguistic heterogeneity of the world by framing language as a static set of rules rather than a creative tool for making sense of the world and our role in it

5 yo: what are you listening to? Mom: it’s work stuff 5 yo: what are they talking about? Mom: contingencies of reinforcement 5 yo: Oh, they’re speaking Russian?? 😂

Opened a new document today to start drafting my first journal article from my dissertation!

a man in a denim jacket holds a bouquet of flowers in front of a plastic bag that says in a few

Alt: a man in a denim jacket rolling up his sleeves

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📢 Request 📢 Designing a course for graduate students called Language and Literacy Development. MA in Multilingual Education. What HAS to be on that syllabus? Also, help me diversify readings outside of western contexts! #literacies #edusky

a baby is reading a book with his eyes closed while sitting at a table .

ALT: a baby is reading a book with his eyes closed while sitting at a table .

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Any beer lovers on here? Dreaming of a hazy IPA that light barely passes through. Can’t get that in Kazakhstan (this one is from Houston last spring), but will be back in the States next week!

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

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Language ideologies shape the rules around what and whose language is validated. A big shift in research in recent years has been from identifying what they *are* to illustrating what they *do*--how they impact social life. Read more in our EAL entry! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Ideology

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Yay! More related 'niche science'! :) go.bsky.app/9TMUZD6

Well said! Sharing my list of starter packs from my “niche science field” peeps. Critical Applied Linguistics go.bsky.app/Yv8eX9 Sociolinguistics go.bsky.app/SN3TdzY Comparative and International Education go.bsky.app/QE2fRsn Applied Linguistics and Second Language Studies go.bsky.app/VZPgwMD

crobi, frequent "shapes place" traveller@crobi.bsky.social · 2y ago

Starter packs are only useful for blocklist and weird niche science fields.

Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut. Hi, I’m Pïlïhp, a bookshelf that requires five different sizes of Allen wrenches

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭@ajaanmark.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hi I'm Kräm, a sofa that is too small to lounge on.

Beyond thankful. For family. For colleagues. For work that I love. For hand drawn pictures of rainbows that I find weeks later in my coat pocket.

Here to elevate second language research by the educational research community. Please tag for a RT! 🦋✨

Lol. I can imagine Marx sending this around Christmas time.

The Once & Future Cheese@unnecessarycheese.bsky.social · 2y ago