Blown away by our MA students at today’s Applied Linguistics Graduate Symposium! So much heart, insight, and variety in their research. What a privilege to witness their work and learn from them 💜 #appliedlinguistics #proud #professor

Conversation with my dad during his visit in the Netherlands: Dad - ¿Qué es esto, hijo? ¿Leche? Me - Sí...leche [reads the label and translates from Dutch and English into Spanish]...evaporada...que le han quitado la mitad de la crema... Dad - Semidesnatada. Me - 😒 Sí. Dad - Pobrecito, mi hijo...

Children don’t “get confused” by multiple languages. They get confused when adults (not just teachers!) treat the ways they use their languages as problems. Support multilingual kids by honouring all the ways they make meaning #Translanguaging #EducationForAll

Just finished teaching at the #appliedlinguistics Summer School offered by Lviv Technological National University in #Ukraine. I'm always delighted to connect with Ukrainian scholars.Very thankful to be included in their programme 💛💙 #translanguaging #multilingualism #education

So much of data analysis is actually data organization

Still some days left to apply for our PhD program in Multilingualism and Migration. Fully-funded, well-supported and excellently located in Groningen. Excited to read so many wonderful proposals already. I'll consider supporting other strong candidates for competitive funding w/in the school.

Back to teaching next week."Pathways for Diversity in #Education" is my only undergraduate class, and takes place in the last quarter. It brings together students from three BA programs. Relatively large group w/ service learning component. Hard to plan but a joy to facilitate. #multilingualism

Tomorrow, Tuesday 8, I'll be giving a (free, open) guest lecture titled "Centering Repertoires, not Target Languages in the Heritage Language Classroom" as part of the Spanish Heritage Language Education Series organised by my very dear Jenny Leeman 💜 out of George Mason University. Join us :)

Happy to share this article (open access, System), hot off the press, on how teachers articulate critical sociocultural theory into praxis when working with multilingual learners. Co-authored w my colleagues from Indiana University-Indy, Teemant and Sherman 💜 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to deliver this keynote tomorrow at the Association of Ukrainian Heritage Language Schools in The Hague 💜

Im (still) coPI of a $3mill US Dept of Education Grant 2022-2027). We serve underresourced schools in the US Midwest. Our research documents how to get great positive lasting + sustainable outcomes, and explains what to do to support teachers. We do the kind of work fascists dread #multilingualism

Job alert at the University of Groningen. Come do your PhD with us under my and Dr Hadi Mirvahedi's supervision at the Centre for Language+Cognition. Focus on Multilingualism, Identity and Well-Being in Migratory contexts. Fully funded. Email me your questions :) www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Reviewer 1 of the paper I'm revising today, whoever you are: thank you, I owe you dinner and a drink at the next conference we attend.

Language is not a system of communication. It's much more. It is how culture is articulated, shared, transmitted. How identities are forged, performed. How knowledge is disseminated, maintained, developed. Ultimately, language is how individuals, communities and societies take shape over time.

Fully funded (NWO) PhD position opening soon on Multilingualism, Identity and Emotions in Post-migratory Settings. Co-supervised by myself and Hadi Mirvehedi. Come join us at the @unigroningen.bsky.social's Centre for Language and Cognition 💜 email me if you have preliminary questions

Thus far 2025 has felt like 3 years worth of events packed in three weeks of time.

Tomorrow, I'll be visiting the University of Amsterdam to give a talk about #translanguaging and emotions in #heritagelanguage #education -- looking forward to connecting with colleagues -- My first time at the @uvahumanities.bsky.social 💜

Today's university in crisis is Kingston, which is cutting all the departments and subjects below, a savage retrenchment that won't even make them half of the £20m savings they need. Every day will be like this until something is done.

Job announcement! ELL is hiring a permanent Lecturer in Communications to join a new area of growth in our subject area. Take a look at the job announcement and let us know if you have any questions! www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Happy to see this SI, Synergies in SLA/T, co-guest edited by Dwight Atkinson Marije Michel and Amable Ribeiro just fresh off the press on MLJ. Much of it is open access, including my commentary 'A Translanguager's take on a Synergy-Driven SLA/T' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 💜

Job! Come work with me in Bergen! Associate Professor in Intercultural Communication. Deadline March 20. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Changing institutions as an #academic means adapting to a new system, and relearning/remapping organisational dynamics and your role in them. It's hard work. Now, changing institutions internationally is a whole different beast with #language and #culture entering the chat. Year 2 and still learning

If only students knew how OBVIOUS it is when they have use ChatGPT to write their papers...

Here's cool little video, should you or your BA students be looking for a great MA in Applied Linguistics :) we also offer a track in Multilingualism -- I teach and direct theses in both 💜 come study with us in beautiful Groningen youtu.be/ocPuG5GTt6U?...

Visiting the University of Jena, in Germany, this afternoon, to discuss my work on #translanguaging in heritage language #education and its implications for #multilingualism research 💜 I always look forward to connecting with grad students and hearing their impression on critical perspectives

Posting so that I don't forget: prioritising my family, my health, and balancing work as part of life helped me turn a terrible 2023/early 2024 into a lovely late 2024. I look forward to this new year in ways I haven't for a while. Wishing everyone fulfillment and health ❤️ #academicsky #academia

Today, after our last Second Language Acquisition, Teaching & Assessment module lecture, with some of my wonderful MA Applied Linguistics students. They're sharp, talented, hardworking and humble. They also happen to be funny, chatty and friendly. A great (and a little tired) cohort.

Last week of lecturing -- activated.

Excited to share this recent publication on translanguaging awareness, teacher education, and arts-based approaches. The chapter is part of a lovely open access book wonderfully co-edited by Paula Kalaja and Silvia Melo-Pfeifer ❤️ www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Today, we're closing our annual Winter/Summer school at the University of Oldenburg as part of our Internationalising Teacher Education project developed between schools in Germany, the Netherlands and South Africa. Missed the in-person part, but really enjoyed organising it. More next year!

This is IMPORTANT work.

Spending the day writing recomm letters for former students applying for PhD programmes far and wide. I'm proud of them for willing to contribute their talent to a world that seems less and less comfortable with thinkers able to offer grounded criticism. There is some fulfillment in hope.

I've created a starter pack with scholars and groups working on different areas related to Multilingualism --- please, share. Happy to add more. go.bsky.app/KSQ5zm

My colleagues here in Groningen are organising next year's International Conference on #Multimodality -- se below and submit your abstract!

My Sunday looks like papers to review, editorial work to do, and catching up on late work while enjoying some kidney stones activity every so often. In the meantime, Olie's Sunday...

Hey, here's a shout-out to folks on #academicsky #language #education #linguistucs #multilingualism #bilingualism #teachersky --let's connect ❤️

Leaving X at some point. Hoping to reconnect with friends and colleagues here.