Amazing opportunities for scholarships on our new ERASMUS Mundus MA programme in language teacher education. Applications now being accepted.

Really excited about this webinar with Ray Hickey!

TESOL post just advertised at UL. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Delighted to share this corpus with fellow researchers. Enjoy! And many thanks to Anne O’Keeffe and others who have worked on developing it over the years. @calsul.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social

"Trump’s approach to trade, shaped by his hubris, poor grasp of policy tools & distrustful nature, has left trade partners wary & US industries in turmoil" UL's Dr Scott Fitzsimmons analyses the aspects of Trump's personality that have led to tariff threats & trade wars www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

UL researcher, Dr Sarah Schaefer, has been awarded more than €600,000 through the Research Ireland Pathway Programme to investigate how media outlets can develop new ways to report issues of climate change to the public. Read on: www.ul.ie/research/new... #StudyAtUL #StayCurious

New article out in Classroom Discourse!: "Forms of becoming: elementary students’ self-positioning in writing" (by Maryam Khosronejad, Mary Ryan & Lauren Alexandra Weber). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fantastic achievement, Sarah! Well done! And such important work for the future of our planet!

UL-led European alliance ‘to build a more connected and inclusive future through education’ Hear from Acting UL President Professor Shane Kilcommins, speaking at the launch of the EMERGE European University Alliance www.ul.ie/news/ul-led-... #StudyatUL

Delighted to announce that the Limerick Corpus of Irish English is now available on Sketch Engine!

Speaking about plurilingualism at the EMERGE University Alliance launch. @unioflimerick.bsky.social @calsul.bsky.social

Delighted to be at the launch of the EMERGE project and alliance, with a strong focus on linguistic diversity.

Our article (w/ Teppo Jakonen & Heidi Jauni ) on joint attention in #hybrid L2 #classroom group work has now been assigned to an issue in Applied Linguistics: academic.oup.com/applij/artic...

Annual CALS research day underway with Dr Laura Keyes from the Centre for Implementation Research @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Renata Trunen from Inland Norway University presenting at our CALS Day. @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Our very own CALS colleagues, Dr Brona Murphy and Dr Elaine Riordan presenting their research on doctoral intelligences.

PhD student Nadia Youcefi presenting her research on EAP at the CALS Research Day.

Marta Fortes talking about virtual exchanges for LSP

It has been eye opening for me to listen to the perspectives of student-teachers on their use of an AI tool for #reflective #practice: Partnering with #AI in #teacher #education? Using an automatic question detection tool to reflect on #classroom #interaction: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article out! Repairing problems of acceptability in pre-task interaction (by David Shimamoto, Kobe University, Japan) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted to be at our first EMERGE project meeting in Paris! Lots of energy in the room. @calsul.bsky.social @ul-gps.bsky.social

Delighted to be presenting a keynote talk at the joint NAES and EFACIS conference in Turku, Finland next week. Now, back to writing it!

🎤 Announcing our next #eurocall2025 plenary speaker: Marina Orsini-Jones! A pioneer in CALL, VE, and multilingual education, she brings decades of expertise in digital learning and global collaboration. ⏳ Submit your paper by 17th February: eurocall2025.com 📍 Join us in Milan! #eurocall #CALL

Don’t miss your chance to read the new Cambridge Element Clinical Communication by Peter Salmon cup.org/3EpJZ3f Free access available until 19 February #cambridgeelements #languageandlinguistics

Upcoming dates for online #CPD courses: English Grammar for Teachers 🗓️ 7 February Teaching English Grammar in Context 🗓️ 28 February 🔗Booking & more dates through 2025: www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usag... #NQT #ECT #PGCE #Literacy #Grammar

Most of our commonly used statistical techniques in CL only help us identify differences between groups. But what if we instead want to empirically test whether two groups are similar/practically equivalent? Just out: Larsson & Hancock (forthcoming) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Delighted to see this in print, and grateful to be in the company of such great authors. Thanks to Anne and Kenan for bringing this all together.

A systematic review of research on AI in language education: Current status and future implications https://buff.ly/4hA3Vi7

We started working on this back in 2017 when I was at Lancaster - so happy it’s finally out ✨ shorturl.at/fWLGe #phonetics #forensicphonetics #sociolinguistics

Meet our first #eurocall2025 plenary speaker: Pierfranca Forchini! An expert in corpus linguistics, movie language, and language varieties, she brings unique insights into spoken discourse. Submit your paper by 3rd February: eurocall2025.com #eurocall #ELT #languages #appliedlinguistics

Two year research fellowship available at Warwick looking at GenAI and academic writing: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ037/r...

Deadline extension: Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025: Final deadline 31 January 2024. Conference website: uclouvain.be/en/research-...

Fixed term teaching position in Linguistics at Newcastle University: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLM052/l...

We're hosting a conference in Conversation Analysis in July, aimed at PhD researchers. The call for abstracts is out now. The invited speakers are Paul Drew and Lorenza Mondada. Info below!

It’s book release day! @perj44.bsky.social & I are so proud of our Cambridge Elements volume on “Language and Place,” which is available for immediate download as an open access PDF as of today 🤩 #linguistics #lingsky www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Excited to share my open-access paper published in Research Methods in Applied Linguistics (@RMALJournal)! It critically explores the limitations of traditional linear regression models (assuming normal error distribution) for analysing syntactic complexity measures. 1/10

UL graduates can now apply to be entered on the Register of Electors for the Seanad Éireann Higher Education constituency. Visit seanadvoter.ie to apply by 23rd Jan #Seanad2025 #StudyatUL

Delighted to have this as part of our SI on technology in language teacher education. Two fabulous papers already published in the SI and more on the way. Watch this space! Many thanks to @sertolcay.bsky.social et al. for being part of it.