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

So happy to join the JPLL team as co-editor in chief! Thank you for the warm welcome!

✨and just like that, my article is out ! ✨ ihworld.com/ih-journal/i... #tesol #multilingualism

Interested in pursuing doctoral studies in education through QUAN research? At @morayhouse.bsky.social we have the Advanced Quantitative Research in Education Thematic Hub, led by Prof. Cristina Ianelli, a world-leading expert. Find out more at education-sport.ed.ac.uk/research/the...

A different kind of 'language portrait', asking students to use wool (a colour for each language). Shared anonymously, with permission: "I chose the blue to represent my English in my brain as it’s the language I think and dream in primarily. (1/3 🧵)

FYI: Doctoral Research Fellowship (PhD) within Language and Linguistics: Two Doctoral Research Fellowships (SKO 1017) in language and linguistics are available at the Department of Literature, European Languages and Area Studies, University of Oslo. We seek innovative, curiosity-driven and…

**Black UK PhD students** Fully funded PhD study - fees and stipend -Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences -Faculty of Health and Life Sciences **Tell everyone** www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...

If you are a teacher of any language in secondary education and feel able to take part in a focus group in English, we would love to talk with you about your thoughts on what psychological knowledge teachers need: anglistik.uni-graz.at/.../language... Thank you for your help!

If you are a teacher of any language at secondary school, we would like to invite you to participate in an online focus group in English. More info here: anglistik.uni-graz.at/de/neuigkeit... Thank you for your help and please help us share! ✨

The wonderful Su Yon Yim came to Graz last year and we worked on this article together. I learned a lot from her about the challenges facing English teachers in primary schools in Korea. Thanks to her commitment, their voices are heard through this article. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

L2 thought of the day - be the teacher that shifts a student’s negative experiences in language classes into a positive one. Be kind, patient and supportive, and do not accept mediocre work when you see they can produce better work. Be generous with praise too.

Come work with Alessandra Valentini at the University of Greenwich and me on a @ukri.org project on #multilingual children's understanding of #inferences in spoken and written English. Full time postdoctoral position, 31 months! Deadline: 10th December. jobs.gre.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

#ELT #languages

If you are a teacher of any language at secondary school, we would like to invite you to participate in an online focus group in English. More info here: anglistik.uni-graz.at/de/neuigkeit... Thank you for your help and please help us share! ✨

Open spots for PhD students at transdisciplinary winter school at U. of Padova, Italy: Interrupting #Coloniality for #Solidarity: #epistemic_justice, indigenous knowledges and intercultural translation, 17-21 Feb. No fee. Application deadline 1 Dec. www.spgi.unipd.it/internaziona...

Since this is a new sojourn for me, let me tell you about Lost Wor(l)ds, a project that facilitates multilingualism in the classroom. Helping teachers support multilingual learners, increasing language awareness for all. www.multilingualism-in-schools.net

Delighted to see friends old and new in this cheery new space. Can I please be excused for sharing my good news yet again...?! :) It was a long gestation period and so am overly thrilled it is finally here in my hands!!

We often end up talking about teaching with other teachers only, and forget about the opinion of the most important people we have in class - the sts. Sottobanco is a podcast that aims to bring the true protagonists of the educational system to the forefront. open.spotify.com/episode/259b...

The Department of Psychology at University of Wisconsin–Madison is searching for an assistant professor in the area of computational approaches to language (broadly construed). Please share widely! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Come join us as a post-doc on NWO project 'Multimodal Signalling in Face-to-Face Communication' 😃 at the Donders Centre for Cognition. Deadline 8th December! Dutch language proficiency required. ru.varbi.com/what:job/job...

📣New article! I always found it weird and counter-intuitive that language teachers in school rarely collaborate across language subjects to enhance students' language learning and multilingualism. THIS is the topic of our study. Open access. www.tandfonline.com/doi/ref/10.1...

@smercergraz.bsky.social and I are excited to announce that our paper based on my FWF project is now out in Learning and Individual Differences in the special issue 'L2 Learning and Individual Differences'! Thank you to the guest editors for their support and feedback! 📣 doi.org/10.1016/j.li...

Happy to share the publication of my book chapter "Ethical issues in educational action research" in the volume "Ethical issues in applied linguistics scholarship." Pre-pub version of the chapter available at www.researchgate.net/publication/... #actionresearch #ethics #education #appliedlinguistics

Just wanted you to know that our new book will be out very soon...! www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...