Noticed today that the DiSS 2025 proceedings have been published! www.isca-archive.org/tmp/diss_202... Lots of interesting papers included (all open access). Glad I could contribute to this disfluency annotation initiative led by Trouvain, Crible, Belz, & Betz: www.isca-archive.org/tmp/diss_202...

Finally, #FlowLangGroup member Maarit Mutta @maaritmutta.bsky.social presented our work combining data from #FDF2 and #KISUVI projects, to examine learners' written and spoken profiles in the L1 + L2 and their anxiety during these tasks. Thanks again to the audience! #EuroSLA34 @koneensaatio.fi

Elina Lehtilä (#FlowLangGroup member and #ILFACT project researcher) did a very impressive job in summarizing her whole PhD and its four substudies in a 20-minute presentation on Friday morning 👏 #EuroSLA34

On Thursday, me & Clare Wright had the pleasure of presenting a new framework for studying fluency in interaction based on data from two projects (one of them being #FlowLangGroup #FDF2 that ended last year). Thanks to the audience for the discussion and feedback! #EuroSLA34 (📷: Magdalena Szyszka)

#FlowLangGroup was well represented at #EuroSLA34! On Friday, we presented the aims, methods, and work packages of the #ILFACT project (funded by the Research Council of Finland). Thanks to everyone who stopped by! (Me on the left, Elina Lehtilä on the right. Photo by @maaritmutta.bsky.social)

’Language learning is impressive’ – The starting point for the second keynote at #EuroSLA34 by Patrick Rebuschat. @c-labl.bsky.social

#EuroSLA34 has kicked off in Tromsø with Theres Grüter’s plenary on prediction as a mechanism for (L2) learning! 👏 @c-labl.bsky.social

Preparations for #EuroSLA34 are in full swing! Picked up our ILFACT poster today from the printer & excited to showcase it next week in Tromsø! Come and check it out during Poster session II ✨ ➡️ When? Friday 27th, at 3 pm ➡️ Where? Solhallen (TEO-H1 U1.803) #FlowLangGroup @eurosla.bsky.social

‌Yesterday we had the pleasure to present a part of the ILFACT project focusing on eye-tracking at the "Show what you got!" day organized by the Turku EyeLabs @utu.fi. Thanks to the audience for the helpful tips & interesting presentations on on-going/planned eye-tracking research! 🙏 #FlowLangGroup

Congrats to Veijo Vaakanainen who defended his PhD dissertation ”Dynamik och kontrast i konnektorbruket hos finska inlärare av L2-svenska” successfully today @utu.fi! Grattis 👏

Want to know more about the ILFACT project (funded by the Research Council of Finland) and our recent data collection trip to Marburg, Germany? Read more in our blog post, just published in the Department of English blog EnglanTY @utu.fi! blogit.utu.fi/englishturku...

Enjoying my time in Germany to the fullest! This week: complementary data collection, meeting w/ a Parisian colleague in Cologne + giving a guest lecture in Marburg. Also got to follow a lecture on intercultural communication by Loy Lising (in the middle in the 📷), as she was also visiting Marburg!

The #ILFACT data collection in Marburg this week was a success! So grateful for all the local help we received 🙏 To the wonderful student participants: thank you for contributing to fluency research! (In the 📸: ILFACT collaborator Sandra Götz, project researcher Saara Naapila & me) #FlowLangGroup

Greetings from Germany! Next week, the #ILFACT project data collection continues at Philipps-University Marburg. Preparations are well under way and I’m looking forward to meeting local students on Monday! #FlowLangGroup

Kiinnostaako, millaista vuorovaikutuksen sujuvuuteen liittyvää tutkimusta teemme viime syksynä käynnistyneessä Suomen Akatemian rahoittamassa ILFACT-hankkeessa? Lue lisää tänään ilmestyneestä Hiiskuttua-lehden jutusta 🎉 ⬇️ sites.utu.fi/hiiskuttua/v...

📢 We're organising the Language Testing Forum 2025 at the University of Southampton. 📝 Submit your abstracts by 11 July 2025! 👉 For more information, please visit the LTF2025 page: www.southampton.ac.uk/humanities/n... #LTF2025 #languageassessment

In the innovative 5th article of our forthcoming special issue on #fluency for IRAL (eds Peltonen & Wright), Daphnée Simard & colleagues combine analyses of perceived L2 fluency, working memory and affective factors (enjoyment + anxiety). Happy reading! 🎉 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

This 4th article (by Elina Lehtilä & @pekkalintunen.bsky.social) of the forthcoming IRAL special issue on #fluency introduces a methodologically innovative combination of speech fluency analysis and eye movement data. A new way to examine utterance & cognitive fluency among multilingual speakers!

The 3rd article of our forthcoming special issue on #fluency for IRAL has been published online! In this article, Ghadah Albarqi examines L1 Arabic learners of English and provides important insights into speech fluency especially at lower levels of proficiency. doi.org/10.1515/iral...

Looking forward to #psynom24.. for #bilingualism folks there, please reach out if you want to be included in this group.. go.bsky.app/C5Lhp1C

The 2nd article of our forthcoming special issue on #fluency for IRAL (eds Peltonen & Wright) is now available ahead of print! A highly welcome addition to the growing body of research on affective factors and fluency by Magdalena Szyszka & @pekkalintunen.bsky.social, based on #FDF2 project data.

#multilingual #landscape spotted in Lleida, Spain last week. ❤️

Spent last week at the University of Lleida in Spain, invited by my colleague Alexandra Vraciu. Had a wonderful time meeting students from the Faculty of Education, planning future collaborations & presenting #FlowLangGroup fluency research to the research group Cercle de Lingüística Aplicada (📷).

Fully funded 4-year PhD with me at VU Amsterdam #emca workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

At the end of last year, I had the pleasure of presenting my fluency research at Young Academy Finland’s Academy Club. The talk was recorded, and you can find a link to it at the bottom of the page: nuortentiedeakatemia.fi/en/2025/01/1... (Note also the recording of the Q&A for all presenters)

1st article of 2025 is out! 🎉 Part of our forthcoming special issue for IRAL. We (w/ @maaritmutta.bsky.social, Päivi Laine & @pekkalintunen.bsky.social) examined fluency across modes. Data from FDF2 & KISUVI projects (funding: Research Council of Finland & @koneensaatio.fi). doi.org/10.1515/iral...

ILFACT-hankkeessa (KKL, Turun yliopisto) on haettavana tutkimusavustajan/projektitutkijan määräaikainen tuntipalkkainen tehtävä ajalle 1.2.2025–30.11.2025 (max 600 h). Hakuaikaa 9.1.2025 klo 16.00 asti. Ks. www.utu.fi/fi/yliopisto... (tunniste 20621). Lisätietoja: sites.utu.fi/flowlang/fi/...

Our doctoral programme Utuling’s annual field trip was organized in Paimio Sanatorium (designed by Aino and Alvar Aalto in 1929) this year. A fascinating place!

Had fun giving a presentation on my #fluency research at Young Academy Finland’s event earlier today. Learned a lot from the other presentations as well (and yes, I still take notes by hand)! #FlowLangGroup

Hey #linguistics, I've created a starter pack for phoneticians, speech people, and phriends. If you feel like I've left someone out or you have suggestions, just lmk! I want more spectrograms on my feed so let's make that happen. go.bsky.app/LPrwcbq

Want to advertise my new project ”L2 Interactional Fluency across Contexts” (ILFACT; launched this September) a bit here as well, since our project researcher Elina Lehtilä made this beautiful illustration for it: sites.utu.fi/flowlang/pro... #FlowLangGroup

Here are some useful starter packs and lists for EAL, MLL, ELL, EAL/D, bilingual and multilingual educators. If you wish to be added or removed please let me know. If you know of any other lists or starter packs please let me know so I can add them too

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Journals, podcasts, university departments and communities all about Linguistics are here! Feel free to send me your own department, podcast, or any resource you have and I’ll add it to the starter pack go.bsky.app/8nJ9keo

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✨ NEW & EMBIGGENED ✨ corpus linguistics and discourse studies starter pack Great to see the tribe connecting! #AcademicSky #LinguisticSky #LangSky #Linguistics go.bsky.app/AT6KX6X

Starter pack with #ELT #TESOL #appliedlinguistics peeps to follow. You can follow individuals or the whole list. Add a comment with your bluesky handle if you want to be included. Hopefully organisations will be migrating here 🦋 as well. go.bsky.app/L9JMNA6

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

#FlowLangGroup publication news off the #MultiFluency project 🎉 Elina Lehtilä’s brilliant study on how L1 speaking style impacts L2/L3 #fluency assessments has just been published in Nordand! #OpenAccess, funded by the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland. doi.org/10.18261/nor...