Super excited to attend the 21st #EALTA Conference this week in Salzburg, Austria! @ayselsaricaoglu.bsky.social and I will be presenting our study on interactive language use in a large-scale online written interaction task Friday morning. Hope to see (at least) some of you there!

In case anyone needs some weekend reading, my contribution to a special issue of Applied Corpus Linguistics, dedicated to corpus research into children's writing, is now available open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A few words by @ayselsaricaoglu.bsky.social about how we have been using Corpus Linguistics in the ReaLiTea project (@realitea.bsky.social ) to better understand how language teachers and language teaching researchers share professional knowledge. www.realitea.info/post/our-use...

The ReaLiTea Team in Ankara and online: Well-fed and looking good! We also were very productive: Our framework for foreign language teachers' research literacies is nearing completion, related teaching and learning materials are being piloted, and you can join the conversation at ogy.de/ReaLiTea

We will update each other on the progress of the work packages, discuss our teaching modules and the virtual community of practice (www.project.uni-stuttgart.de/realitea) and work on our first interim report. Be sure to check out our webpage (realitea.info) in the coming weeks for details.

We are excited to pack our bags for our second transnational meeting in Ankara! We're getting in the mood with a trip to Cappadocia, followed by two days of intense exchange about current issues in the ReaLiTea project. Photo by Theugursevinc: Fairy chimneys in Uçhisar, Cappadocia. CC-BY-SA 4.0

@ayselsaricaoglu.bsky.social set the bar for transnational meetings very high!

Did I enjoy myself in Ankara @ the ReaLiTea @realitea.bsky.social project meeting? Indeed I did! Working with such talented colleagues is a privilege. @rgarcia.bsky.social @ayselsaricaoglu.bsky.social @achilleaskostoulas.com @oasisdatabase.bsky.social