If you've ever run a stimulated recall study and wondered what to actually report, or how your approach compares to what's already out there, you might be interested in this paper. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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A one-page Accessible Summary of this article in nontechnical language will be freely available in the Supporting Information online and at https://oasis-database.org upon publication of this article

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Excited to share that Soyoung Lim and I have reviewed the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK), out now in @langtestjournal.bsky.social. We hope this review is useful for test takers, test score users, and researchers considering TOPIK for their own purposes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Test Review: The Test of Proficiency in Korean - So-Young Lim, John Dylan Burton, 2026

As a nationally accredited test, the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK) assesses general Korean proficiency as a foreign language for various high-stakes pur...

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Check it out. "Language Testing" published a review of the TOPIK. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Out now in International Journal of Applied Linguistics, my new paper, "Unrealistic Feedback in Socially Prescriptive Speech Technologies". tl;dr LLMs are terrible at evaluating speech, and you should not use them unless you'd like a class-action lawsuit. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

The call for papers for the East Coast Organization of Language Testers (ECOLT) 2026 is now live, and we are proud to be hosting it at Georgia State University on November 6, 2026. Check out the call and join us here in Atlanta later this year! sites.google.com/view/ecolt

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We are proud to announce that ECOLT 2026 will take place at Georgia State University on November 6, 2026 Click here to Call for Proposals

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Language Testing Volume 43 Issue 2 is now available! In this issue: 2 original articles, 2 systematic reviews, 1 brief report, and 2 book reviews. Check out our spotlight on the systematic reviews in this thread ⬇️. Full issue is available here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/ltja/43/2

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research is doing some major shaping up; Brysbaert and Folk outline new editorial guidelines to promote robust, reproducible quantitative research with strong conceptual foundations: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Check out my new article! Here I look at nonverbal behaviors that listeners mention most often when listening to L2 speech and how they perceive their function in communication. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Salience and Function of Nonverbal Behavior in L2 Speech Evaluations

Language educators often focus on the linguistic features of second language (L2) speech for teaching and assessment, but research has found that listeners also attend to a range of evidence, includi...

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Check out Lynda Taylor's piece in #LanguageTesting on what it means to be a member of a professional association in our field. doi.org/10.1177/0265... (1/2)

This pioneering Virtual Special Issue by Salomé Villa Larenas on the #GlobalSouth is consequential in bringing to light regional disparities in our journal and field and in shifting the focus to underrepresented contexts. doi.org/10.1177/0265... (1/4)

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

Do you know Zoom & other companies are encouraging discrimination against employees for things like "pausing too long" or not sounding sufficiently "charismatic"? Read all about our dystopian present in my new paper, out today in JASA! (Seriously, read it. It's important) doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

How do untrained listeners report using nonverbal behavior in their perceptions and judgements of L2 ability? I explore this topic and more in my latest article just out in The Modern Language Journal. Read more here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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This study investigated linguistic laypersons’ use of nonverbal behavior when formulating judgments of second language (L2) ability. Eighty-three first language (L1) English-speaking participants wat...

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Congrats to guest editors Eunice Jang, Yasuyo Sawski & all authors on this blockbuster issue of #LanguageTesting on the AI revolution! It’s a hefty issue with 7 articles, an opening Editorial & an insightful post-script by @lukeharding.bsky.social. Now out here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/LTJ/curr...

Language Testing - Volume 42, Number 4

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Language Testing@langtestjournal.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Language Testing Volume 42 Issue 4 is now available! The Special Issue of 2025: Advancing language assessment for teaching and learning in the era of the artificial intelligence #AI revolution: Promises and challenges journals.sagepub.com/toc/ltja/42/4

We recruited a large number of layperson listeners to complete transcriptions (one utterance at a time) and comprehensibility ratings of archived Aptis responses and compared those listener-based measures to official scores. Methodologically this is one of my favorite projects!

Our new study on intelligibility and comprehensibility in the @britishcouncil.bsky.social Aptis General exam is out now in SiLA. Intelligibility distinguishes A1/above A1, but it's generally comprehensibility that is associated with higher levels of performance. www.altaanz.org/7_sila_14_1_...

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Intelligibility and comprehensibility across Aptis Speaking tasks

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Sycophantic LLMs rob us of the chance to practice what makes us human: thought, revision, interaction, introspection. I’m much more worried about everyone losing those skills than I am about a Terminator-style end of the world.

Accurate. #academia #academy #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #science

Happy to announce that our article (w/ Sandra Götz & @pekkalintunen.bsky.social) exploring L1 & L2 speech #fluency in monologue + dialogue is now out in SSLA (OA)! Part of the recently completed #FDF2 project (funded by the Research Council of Finland). #FlowLangGroup @utu.fi doi.org/10.1017/S027...

ggplot2 4.0.0 is out and the new `paper`, `ink`, `accent` theme variables look super cool! Just pick 2-3 colors 🎨 to make your plots look great! I'm excited to hook this up to brand.yml 😉

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I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

New issue of Studies in Second Language Acquisition now available 📚 cup.org/47eF6ql #SSLA #appliedlinguistics #LangSky

While I'm dispensing computer advice, to any new graduate students: Save all your article PDFs using the same template. I like LASTNAME YEAR SHORT TITLE/DESCRIPTION, like Labov 1963 Marthas Vineyard Save them all in just one giant folder, not piecemeal by class. Thank me when you're tenured.

The new Cracker Barrel logo is the visual version of a 50 year old saying skibidi.

{tinytable} 0.13.0 for #RStats can now draw interactive tables with sorting, filtering & pages! And the 📦 is still an ultra-simple, powerful, and 0-dep way to create beautiful tables in basically any format: tex, typ, docx, pdf, png, md, etc Gallery & Docs: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

Papers often conclude "more research is needed" without explanation. This is a missed opportunity. You are the expert. This is your time to shine. Explain what the remaining uncertainties are, and give justified recommendations on what the research needed to resolve them should look like.

I've said it before, and I will say it again: It's astonishing how emotionally aversive revisions are, even in the best possible case (reviewers are positive and have very actionable remarks). Or at least that's how I work; if anybody has some good recommendations for coping, do let me know 😂

I shouldn't wade into this discourse, but LANGUAGE CHANGES and old people always hate what kids are doing. This is fine, especially if the author intends it to be euphemistic. Language policing always ends in systematic discrimination against marginalized people. We don't want to go down this road!

Indie Book Spotlight@bookspotlight.bsky.social · last yr.

If you write ‘unalive’ in prose or character dialogue, in your NOVEL - which I have seen TWICE NOW - I will immediately wince and full body cringe. The TikTokification of words has to stop. Your character almost DIED or was KILLED in your novel. They were not almost ‘unalived’.

Now available in OnlineFirst, Shungo Suzuki and colleagues propose a new approach to weakness identification for L2 speaking skills in diagnostic language assessment (DLA), with an AI-driven DLA program that uses contextualized diagnostic feedback to improve lexical use. doi.org/10.1177/0265...