How can mixed-skill classrooms be designed effectively? This workshop discusses practical approaches in Digital Humanities teaching. 🎤 @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social , Junior Professor of Digital Literary Studies and Methods at DHSS @grk2806.bsky.social 📅 April 7, 18:00–19:30 (zoom) #FAU

The York English Language Toolkit returns on 10 July 2026. This free hybrid CPD workshop for A-level English Language teachers features talks from Prof Devyani Sharma, Prof Paul Kerswill, Prof Sam Hellmuth and Dr Kobin Kendrick. Save the date. englishlanguagetoolk...

Great morning at #AAAL2026, where we are discussing all things AI and Applied Linguistics! Honoured to be a part of this invited colloquium, organised by Andrea Révész & Shungo Suzuki, speaking about our paper (with @gavinbrookes.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social) here: doi.org/10.1017/S026...

On World Water Day, we just announced “Our Future, Our Water, Our Stories.” 🌍💧 Calling all young storytellers! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fgp...

#AAAL2026 "Meet the Journal Editors" session is this afternoon. Sharing the generous support of Cambridge University Press - download ALL titles free during the conference! www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

FlexiConc is now available on www.clic-fiction.com. Cluster concordance lines, partition by metadata, filter by POS tag or regex, and everything you do builds into an analysis tree you can retrace and share. We walk through all of it with body part nouns in 19C fiction. github.com/reading-conc...

Today is the official publication day for the hardback version of "Exploring Meaning in Surveillance Discourses through Corpora" (ebook was published earlier). Many thanks to series editors @michamahlberg.bsky.social & @gavinbrookes.bsky.social for your support 😊 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/exploring...

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Registration for the University of Bath's 3rd Disciplinary Literacy Symposium is now open! This hybrid event on 17th & 18th June will bring together teachers, linguists and other educational experts for two days of presentations and hands-on workshops. Registration starts from £25. #UniofBath

#TEAMStirling @rushtondr.bsky.social @nuzie.bsky.social @scrcm.bsky.social @adnanyilmaz.bsky.social

Considering to complete a PhD project on a topic related to English language education? Join our webinar this Friday, 20 March, to find out more about our professional doctorate "PhD TESOL Research" and get answers to any questions you might have www.bigmarker.com/student-supp... #ELT #langsky

🎓 Fully funded Chartered Teacher Status pathway – Now open for applications! We are offering 30 places to secondary teachers or middle leaders from global majority backgrounds. 🌟Engage with education research 🌟Strengthen your practice Apply now: https://chartered.pulse.ly/rq72nj5giu

The final report from the Sustainable School Leadership project is out! A 3-year study across England, Northern Ireland & Scotland, funded by #esrc #educationresearchprogramme Available here: www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/gro... @patthomson.bsky.social @twperry1.bsky.social @samfr.bsky.social

📝 We're delighted to publish a new report from the BERA Expert Panel on Educational Research Funding: 'Making the most of education research: The ecosystem and the common good' 🌱 Find out more: https://www.bera.ac.uk/publication/bera-expert-panel-report-and-working-paper

Reminder: information webinar on the British Council English and School Education Scholarships Scheme, Thurs 5 March 2026, 12:30 UK/ 18:00 India & Sri Lanka/ 18:30 Bangladesh lnkd.in/gWXyHSsK @britishcouncil.bsky.social are funding 20 spaces on our MSc TESOL (Online)! #BritishCouncilScholarsELT

🎙️ Life & Language explores how language shapes the way we see the world. Hosted by Prof. @michamahlberg.bsky.social. Now in its 5th season with 28 episodes and brilliant guests across disciplines. Curious about how words shape life? 🎧 Join the conversation.

Including a chapter by Stirling’s @rushtondr.bsky.social 😊

Join us on Feb. 25th for an online data session with Mark Romig, EdD Student at @columbiaaltesol.bsky.social. In this session, we will analyze videos and transcripts of vocabulary explanations from adult ESL classrooms. The event is FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Register here: tinyurl.com/REALdoc-Mark

Have you registered yet? On Feb. 25, Mark Romig, EdD Student in the Applied Linguistics & TESOL Program at Teachers College (@columbiaaltesol.bsky.social) will facilitate an online data session focused on Vocabulary Explanations in Pedagogical Interaction. Don't miss it! tinyurl.com/REALdoc-Mark

🚨 Reminder 🚨 The call for games for #DGKL2026 is still open until February 25th! Do you have a game you developed for e.g. teaching linguistics, participant engagement in experiments, or else? Let people try your game in Bielefeld! 👉 CfG here: t1p.de/opy89 #linguistics #langsky #BLinguistik

Keen to develop your career in English language education? Join this webinar introducing the Stirling MSc TESOL programmes to explore your options: Thursday 12 March 2026, 11:00 UK time Register via www.bigmarker.com/student-supp... #TeamStirling #ELT #TESOL @adnanyilmaz.bsky.social

Now available for preorder www.bloomsbury.com/uk/teacher-a...

SLTED2026 Who's joining us? #curriculum @morayhouse.bsky.social @davidgerlach.bsky.social #language #teachered

Primary schools are invited to join us for year 2 of our Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning project. The project promotes creative and multilingual approaches to Learning for Sustainability. Successful schools will receive £5,000 to support their participation. https://loom.ly/Dsb3xas

Issue 26 of Impact Journal, guest-edited by Dr Janet Ramdeo, is arriving with our members this week! 🎉 Access the full issue on MyCollege, including online only articles, from Friday. #MentoringEquity #TeacherCPD #CareerProgression

Tickets now available for this free event

Sign up for the next @scrcm.bsky.social free webinar - Curriculum making in Wales: what does it mean to be purpose-led? - led by David Morrison-Love and colleagues Wed 18 Feb 2026 4:00 PM www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...

If you are an English language teacher in Bangladesh, India, or Sri Lanka, this British Council scholarship for *20 fully-funded* spaces on our MSc TESOL (Online) may be of interest. Information webinar on 5 March – please spread the word! #BritishCouncilScholarsELT #TeamStirling

English language teachers from Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka: the eligibility requirements + application procedure for the British Council English and School Education Scholarship Scheme have been published, covering 20 fully-funded awards on our MSc TESOL (Online) #BritishCouncilScholarsELT 1/2

Today is International Day of Education. A day to celebrate educators and the power of education. #Teaching #Teachers #Education

The new BERA publication, Guide to Practitioner Research: Developing Professional Knowledge in Educational Research and Practice, is another essential for #furtereducation practitioners interested in research & professional practice. Awesome ed. team and chapter writers. @drjoycechen.bsky.social

My inaugural lecture is now online 🥰 media.ed.ac.uk/media/Profes... #sociophonetics #sociolinguistics #linguistics #phonetics #semiotics #Peirce #indexicality #social #meaning #research #academic #academia #lecture #Arizona #SanFrancisco #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Scots #English #professor #babyphotos

We have just confirmed the date of the March @scrcm.bsky.social webinar. I will be presenting ideas from the forthcoming 2nd edition of Teacher Agency: An Ecological Approach. Join us on Tues 17 March, 4-5.30. Sign up at www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...

🏆 Recognise exceptional teaching expertise! Fellowship is an opportunity to amplify influence, collaborate with committed professionals, and shape educational policy. Know someone who deserves this recognition? Deadline: 5th February Nominate now: https://chartered.pulse.ly/j6rnbofmpy

Welcome back! We hope you had a restful break & are ready to dig back in. This busy January we have sessions exploring new resources, a bitesize lesson plan for Burns Night, & more! You can find our CLPL offer for January & beyond on Signposts: www.signpostsglobalcitizenship.org/current-clpl-offer

Just published: "Out of ‘Giám thị’ ‘heroic teachers’ will rise: pain, performance and pride while doing primary school ‘tests’ in Vietnam" by Thanh Nguyen, based on ethnographic fieldwork for his PhD project doi.org/10.1080/1745... Congratulations, Thanh! #TEAMStirling @scrcm.bsky.social

🎉 Ready for something new in 2026? Become a Young Advisor (ages 12–16) & work with the Commissioner to help make sure children’s voices are heard across Scotland. ✨ Learn new skills ✨ All backgrounds & accessibility needs welcome ✨ Make a difference Apply: bit.ly/4p2tz2r

✨️ Starting the new year with a new article by Dr Ben Matthews and colleagues: 'Understanding changing patterns of placement type stability in the first two years of placement for looked after children in Scotland: A sequence analysis' #children #CareExperience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The CfPs for LavLang32 at Edinburgh is now OPEN! A reminder of our stellar lineup: • Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke) • Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE) • Prof. Erez Levon (Bern) • Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece) • Dr. Eddie Ungless (UoE) Submit a paper here: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231

I love a bit of literary tourism - visiting places I know from stories in books and films. So what a joy it was to talk to Lee Jackson about #Dickensland! Join us for the start of the new season of #LifeandLanguage @victorianlondon.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0aB3...

Today is the final day to send us your abstracts! You have until midnight (UK time)! 😁 Here is the submission link: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

We're delighted to announce 15 fully funded scholarships for English teachers from Bangladesh, India & Sri Lanka to join our MSc TESOL (Online) in Sept 2026, including a 2-week visit to Stirling! Funded by @britishcouncil.bsky.social. Further details: www.stir.ac.uk/scholarships... #TeamStirling

We're excited to re-launch the journal "Innovations in Linguistics Education", a forum for evidence-based research in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) in linguistics! We open for submissions in January 2026. journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations/

An exciting development. Great to see it based in Scotland - maybe of interest to @langsocscot.bsky.social folks? 😊

We are happy to announce our Pre-Conference Event 2026: Teaching the Teachers: Innovation and Challenges in ESOL Pedagogy and Teacher Development Join us in Brighton on 20 April 2026! 👉 Register now: tdsig.org/pce #pce #brighton2026 #iatefl2026 #teacherdevelopment

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Recently qualified primary teacher or student primary teacher? Our online #ECT Signpost Sessions are for you! They offer advice on supporting multilingual pupils, teaching additional #languages and the chance to network. Sign up for our session on 28 Jan! https://loom.ly/HpIN0Uw

Leave notes, play games, go shopping: how to boost your child’s multilingual skills these holidays

If you'd like to offer learners a language qualification in #Mandarin but your department hasn't the capacity we can help! Our Discovering China online classes prepare learners in Scotland for National Qualifications. Register interest for 2026-27 now! https://loom.ly/6RAuz5U

So happy to say our book is now published! Working with the amazing editorial team has been a privilege, including @abihackett.bsky.social, @davidbenshannon.bsky.social, Vishnu Kkn, Christina MacRae, Rachel Holmes, @khawlabadwan.bsky.social, Rosie Flewitt and @wardasworld.bsky.social. Thanks all! 🌸