🚨 The AERA Second Language Research SIG is launching the Critical Language Education Seed Grant! 🎓✍️ $500–$1,000 awards for critical research on language and inequality. Deadline: Oct 15, 2025. Details + apply 👉 docs.google.com/document/d/1... #LanguageEd #ResearchFunding #EducationEquity

SLR SIG Members, If you have not already done so, we invite you to participate in our Spring 2025 SLR SIG Member Survey! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I loved recording this @languageonthemove.bsky.social episode with Dr. Jinhyun Cho about English ideologies in Korea. We discuss how ways of speaking English in Korea index different class positions and how English has become part of female beauty standards! www.languageonthemove.com/english-ideo...

New open access pub! Excited to share that our nationwide parent survey study is published in IJBEB! The study highlights the need to inform parents about the benefits of bilingualism and to address misconceptions about bilingual and dual language education. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excited 2 share our article led by @DrSab_Sembiante titled "Sustainable #translanguaging pedagogy in support of the vulnerable language: honoring children’s ways of ‘Showing’ and ‘Telling’ in early childhood #duallanguage #bilingualeducation" Free eprint:

Delighted to share our policy paper titled "The viability of #bilingualeducation in #Nevada" in which we discuss the current context and provide recommendations for policymakers and districts: #CCSD #ELLs #bilingual #unlv

I am very excited to share my recent article, Beyond description: reconceptualizing the (trans)language(ing) among international students, in the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. #translanguaging #bilingualeducation #sociolinguistics #internationalstudents #TESOL #ESL

Delighted to share a new article titled, "(Re)negotiating Asian and Asian American identities in solidarity as language teacher educators: An AsianCrit discourse analysis", published in TESOL Journal. 🧵 Below 🌟 Free open-access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Thrilled to share our latest article published in Journal of Second Language Writing (Elsevier)! Link to free access within 50 days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #writing #feedback #modeltexts

over three years we worked closely with a group of English language high school teachers who were committed to anti-deficit practices for combatting language stigma and discrimination. this article documents their efforts and describes what became possible: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

SLA for All, a special issue of Language Learning is now available, with 6 examples of replication studies giving us lots of food for thought in terms SLA research, how we do it and what can be done to make it more inclusive & generalisable onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679922...

Congrats to Prof. @cbchang.bsky.social on his chapter w/ Dr. Esther de Leeuw in The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual #Phonetics & #Phonology! 🤩📖 "Phonetic and phonological L1 attrition and drift in bilingual speech" doi.org/10.1017/9781009105767.033 #Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social

Highly recommend reading my friend Doris’s article. Feeling very timely… again. #EDUsky #BilingualEducation #DualLanguage www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

With Elizabeth Loh and Mark Shum from HK University also edited this volume on Chinese as a second language. We look at immigrant learners in HK and new learners of Chinese (ie not ‘background’ speakers) mainly in Australia; original research data and concepts. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Second article based on my doctoral research into linguistic dissociation is now open access in TESOL Quarterly 🥳✨ The Role of English and Its Myths in the Emergence of First Language Dissociation among Some Japanese-English Late Plurilinguals doi.org/10.1002/tesq...

The interpretation of verbal #moods in #Spanish: A close #replication of Kanwit and Geeslin (2014) by Aarnes Gudmestad et al. This will be part of the SSLA special issue on replication in second #language research doi.org/10.1017/S027...

New open-access journal in applied lingustics/second language studies: Second Language Research & Practice http://www.slrpjournal.org/

Hello all! Just a quick post to say hi and let you know that we will be adding more information soon on the 58th BAAL conference 2025, set to take place at the University of Glasgow on 4th-6th September. Please share the page amongst colleagues. Will keep you all updated!

Hello new non-Twitter-but-kind-of-like-Twitter world. The main thing I've been doing recently is writing a book, which is finally coming out early 2025. More detail here: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

You can read my project launch poster here!

Santa Claus has cooome to toooown (with a new BLC paper) 🎶🎅 Wonderful collaboration with Tim Laméris and Brechtje Post and my first venture into tone processing and learning. L2 perception and word learning with a smidge of individual differences. What's not to like? Below's the link (OA)

This month, my work with ʻŌiwi Parker Jones on the stop consonants /p, k/ in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi for speakers from the 1970s-80s came out in Journal of Phonetics. I am honored to work with the Hawaiian community and grateful for the linguistic resources they have been meticulously maintaining.

🧠 Exciting News! Our latest paper in the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, delves into how speaking two, three, and four languages can transform the brain! Check these exciting results ⬇️ doi.org/10.1017/S136...

Doing #bilingualism or #multilingualism research and wondering which lang background measure to use? We examined if #language solidarity biased self-evaluation accuracy. doi.org/nrvz Bottom line: %use self-evals were less biased than value-laden (how good am I?) self-evals. %use wins, to us!

🔔📝My new paper on the experiences of students who dropped out of an English-medium university. #Bourdieu #EMI www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My #interestingread today: Arctic Indigenous Peoples’ languages www.arcticpeoples.com/sagastallami... There is a great diversity of Arctic Indigenous Peoples’ languages, but historical and present-day marginalization has threatened many languages’ vitality. #indigenous #languages #langsky

Jonathan Rosa and I had the amazing opportunity to work with an undergraduate student and a high school student to "translate" our "Undoing Appropriateness" article for high school students. The final product is available for free here: demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/articles/lan...

Topic 3: Structure and Systems Affecting College and Career Readiness for English Learners in the U.S. Education System Guest editors: Sophia L. Ángeles and Mark R. Emerick (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...)

Topic 2: Mixed Methods Research in TESOL Guest editors: Mohammad R. Hashemi and A. Mehdi Riazi (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...)

TQ's 2026 special issue calls for abstracts are live! Abstracts are due for each special issue by January 31, 2025. There will be three SIs: Topic 1: Digital Multimodal Composing and TESOL in the GenAI Era Guest editors: Lianjiang George Jiang and Mimi Li (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...)

I stepped out of the rat race in 2012 and created multilingualparenting.com to help parents raise their children to speak the family languages - coaching, presentations, talks, workshops, and blog articles. In 2014, my book "Bringing up a Bilingual Child" was published. Others are in the making ...

New #openaccess paper: Neff, J., Arciaga, K., & Burri, M. (2024). EFL students' and teachers' perceptions of the ethical uses of AI tools. Technology in Language Teaching & Learning, 6(3), 1–19 www.castledown.com/journals/tlt...

Trying to bring multiple languages into our morphology instruction! Any feedback from my fellow reading teachers?

Created a starter pack in Comparative and International Education go.bsky.app/QE2fRsn

🚨Job alert! We're hiring a director of the Portuguese language program. I'm not on the committee but am happy to answer any general questions about the dept, uni, etc. arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

In the grand scheme of things, it feels only minimally important to announce two publications I had a hand in this week: ⬇️

Here to elevate second language research by the educational research community. Please tag for a RT! 🦋✨

The journey to raising bilingual children is often overshadowed by the pressure to achieve "perfect fluency" in two languages. But is perfection a realistic measure of success? I offer thoughts on redefining the goals of bilingualism “beyond perfection” 👇 t.co/nBMtKqZp20

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

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

Join us for our second brown bag of the semester! Dr. Nick Williams will share with us his research on language documentation.

“Research shows people who [are using a second] language are more utilitarian and flexible, less risk-averse and egotistical, and better able to cope with traumatic memories” www.theguardian.com/science/2023...

This week I've presented some of my most recent research at EuroSLA32 in Birmingham. My talk was “On the coupling between perception and production of second-language sounds in tasks involving lexical processing” and is based on a paper that's in press in SSLA. Link to post-print: osf.io/h8c3q

📚 JUST IN: Explore our new book chapter summarising the latest research on *SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND NEUROPLASTICIY* Embark on a journey through the fascinating world of brain changes in L2 learners. Authored with Christos Pliatsikas #bilingualism #multilingualism #neurolinguistics #SLA

New research timeline on second language speech comprehensibility by my colleagues at @slshawaii Dustin Crowther, Dan Holden, and Kristin Urada. Where will L2 comprehensibility research go next? https://bit.ly/3Meepo4

"These results show that learning a second language can change the concepts in the first language." #language #bilingual #research journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Job opening: Assistant Professor in Foreign and Second #Language #Education, Florida State University | Research interests in a variety of Second Language Education areas and openness to diverse #researchmethodologies linguistlist.org/issues/35/30...

Our latest manuscript has just been accepted for publication in Journal of Second Language Writing (Elsevier) 💐

Officially published today! Multilingual Nations, Monolingual Schools: Confronting Colonial Language Policies Across the Americas So grateful to all contributors, publisher, and co-editors www.tcpress.com/multilingual... #academicsky