I am truly honoured to contribute this chapter on figurative language acquisition to the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (3rd ed.)

And here we are again this year, enjoying this wonderful COIL experience with @glasgow.ac.uk. Thank you @salzacharias.bsky.social and @dobrochnafutro.bsky.social (+colleagues and students) for making this possible in such an enriching way (and for the pics 😉)! Can't wait for our next session!

📑 We are really excited to read your abstracts! Remember that the call for abstracts is open until February 27. More the info on our website. 📑 ¡Estamos deseando leer vuestros resúmenes! Recordad que está abierto el plazo de envío de propuestas hasta el 27 de febrero. Más info en nuestra web.

Are you interested in: ➡️Metaphor in L1 ➡️ Metaphor in L2, L3, Lx ➡️ Vocabulary Then, you cannot miss our specialised seminar in Badajoz. ‼️Submission deadline: 27 February Dates: 2⃣ -3⃣ July 2026 🌍 Special venue and atmosphere Further details here ⬇️ eventos.unex.es/139535/secti...

A truly enriching training seminar on how CL can inspire teaching materials. I am very grateful to the speakers @mmartingilete.bsky.social, Zeina Alhmoud, @beamartingascon.bsky.social and @salzacharias.bsky.social for their inspiring talks, my team and our SOFD at UEx for funding the event.

An amazing programme for this I International Conference on Applied Cognitive Linguistics organised by Andreea Rosca. Possibility of online attendance. cogclare.com/wp-content/u...

Immensely enriched and grateful after the RaAM 17 conference @raammetaphor.bsky.social. A really high quality programme and impeccable organisation. Delighted to present our work in individual papers and a theme session with Rafael Alejo, @mmartingilete.bsky.social and Laura Fielden.

Huge congrats, @mmartingilete.bsky.social! A more than well-deserved recognition to your academic achievements and great news for Applied Cognitive Linguistics!

Looking forward to enjoying this always-enriching Colloquium and feeling very honoured for the opportunity to give a plenary talk that summarises our research into CLIL in the past years!

To be able to read exceptional MA dissertations is a gift and to see our students of the Master's in Bilingual Education Through English For Primary And Secondary School Teachers (Universidad de Extremadura) “grow” so much is a great satisfaction. So begins Adela Grandioso Perera's dissertation:

A highly recommended colloquium for both teachers and researchers involved in CLIL. Registrations are still open but only until 6 June! Castelo Branco, Portugal 🇵🇹 30 June & 1 July 2025 🔗 Register here: forms.gle/y3uLSZf4ppth... #WorkingCLIL2025 #CLIL #TeacherDevelopment #PlurilingualEducation

12th International Conference on Meaning and Knowledge Representation (MKR 2025) July 9, 10 and 11, 2025 (Logroño, Spain) mkr.webs.upv.es/2025/index.h...

✨ Announcing the publication of our Special Issue in RCL! Edited by @anapiquerpiriz-uex.bsky.social and yours truly, and with contributions from amazing authors. BRINGING FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE INTO REAL L2 CLASSROOMS: CHALLENGES OF EMPIRICAL TESTING ✨ www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

A truly enriching experience for us and our students. Thank you @salzacharias.bsky.social, @dobrochnafutro.bsky.social, Fatma and all the students! Here, we are all really looking forward to the forthcoming working!

CLIL sts from Uni de Extramedura, Spain & Tesol students from Language Learning for Children with EAL course learning together & sharing their language learning journeys. Thank you sts & @anapiquerpiriz-uex.bsky.social Rafael A.González @dobrochnafutro.bsky.social #COIL @uofgeducation.bsky.social

Doing a PhD or just completed one outside the UK? Interested in a postdoc with any of the researchers in Linguistics and Communication at the University of Birmingham? Here’s your chance! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

Sesión formativa sobre evaluación entre iguales mediante rúbricas en nuestro Grupo de Innovación Docente (GID_ICLUEx) de la universidad de Extremadura. Aprendiendo y compartiendo.

"Whatever direction linguistics may take, I hope that more and more linguists will engage with the social issues that spring from linguistic diversity." -- William Labov (2016: 596) #linguistics #Labov #social #justice #sociolinguistics

Os dejo esto por aquí por si no lo habéis visto. Tiene pintaza #Lingüística

The European Alliance (EUGREEN) coordinated by my university (Universidad de Extremadura) celebrates Human Rights through linguistic diversity 😍https://eugreenalliance.eu/celebrating-human-rights-through-linguistic-diversity/

When you are working on a chapter that you've been invited to write and go back to your PhD dissertation dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/tesi... (20 years later!) to discover that there are still many relevant issue there. This is where it all started ;-)

I have been here for several weeks now and I am enjoying it. Great to see so many colleagues and friends around! Coming from southern Spain, blue skies have always been my thing.