If we focus on social action, language policy is the discourse management of people. Highly recommend reading "Language Policy in Action" by @kristofsavski.bsky.social Read my full review here: rdcu.be/eHSQa Thanks to @bonacina-pugh.bsky.social and the team at LP @springernature.com

🚨 New publication on critical peer mentoring in higher ed: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🤓 2 year collaborative autoethnography + three constructs: identity, radical praxis, and ideological becoming 🌏 Result: a model that can scaffold faculty development workshops or peer mentoring programs

"I'm not a specialist in science" "I'm not an English teacher" What does it take to become a #CLIL teacher in Kazakhstan? We found that English teachers and content subject teachers take very different paths. Implications for STEM, EMI and CLIL teacher training more broadly. bit.ly/CLILidentities

The Macarena came on the radio and I was surprised to know my 5-yo already knows the moves. “Come on Papa, everyone knows the Macaroni Song!” 🙄 🤣

Happy to share a book chapter, and perhaps my favorite solo-authored piece to date. 🤓 What benefits, challenges, and identity construction processes do Kazakhstani multilingual teachers experience? 🌏🤨 What language ideologies are enacted in our research? 🤔 bit.ly/criticalEMI

Trump’s Executive Order on “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools is premised on some strange logic. I understand ideologies as dynamic, contested, assemblages of values. How can they be “false”?

Challenge accepted 😝

I learned today that 39 is not too old to go sledding. It is, however, too old to go sledding and not need ibuprofen afterwards 🤦‍♂️

Teaching graduate students about research literacy? How about creating opportunities to participate in research communities? www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/eight...

My 11yo just asked me why I’m having coffee again.

Textbook example of how language ideologies are reinforced or challenged in hundreds of everyday interactions.

Writing tip: After you finish, go back & cut all the adverbs. Then all the adjectives. Then all the other words. Eat the paper. Now you're free.

Resharing this starter pack with some new additions. Still happy to add more folks! go.bsky.app/Yv8eX9

I’ve done portfolio grading in middle and high school classrooms. This semester I’m trying it out with graduate students. Lots of choice and chances for creativity.

So much academic writing advice is just “false promises and cheap tricks” - novice writers deserve better, as @patthomson.bsky.social reminds us

And the critical educational linguist might add that the label “the real world” is always up for grabs, that teaching students to celebrate and leverage linguistic diversity is in fact preparing them for a linguistically heterogenous future, in turn helping preserve the value of that heterogeneity

5 yo: what are you listening to? Mom: it’s work stuff 5 yo: what are they talking about? Mom: contingencies of reinforcement 5 yo: Oh, they’re speaking Russian?? 😂

Opened a new document today to start drafting my first journal article from my dissertation!

📢 Request 📢 Designing a course for graduate students called Language and Literacy Development. MA in Multilingual Education. What HAS to be on that syllabus? Also, help me diversify readings outside of western contexts! #literacies #edusky

Any beer lovers on here? Dreaming of a hazy IPA that light barely passes through. Can’t get that in Kazakhstan (this one is from Houston last spring), but will be back in the States next week!

My book is now officially out. Please drop a request to your library. If you want to order individually, see discount code below. More info here: www.cambridge.org/9781009385121 #appliedlinguistics #linguistics #languagepolicy

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Language ideologies shape the rules around what and whose language is validated. A big shift in research in recent years has been from identifying what they *are* to illustrating what they *do*--how they impact social life. Read more in our EAL entry! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Yay! More related 'niche science'! :) go.bsky.app/9TMUZD6

Well said! Sharing my list of starter packs from my “niche science field” peeps. Critical Applied Linguistics go.bsky.app/Yv8eX9 Sociolinguistics go.bsky.app/SN3TdzY Comparative and International Education go.bsky.app/QE2fRsn Applied Linguistics and Second Language Studies go.bsky.app/VZPgwMD

Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut. Hi, I’m Pïlïhp, a bookshelf that requires five different sizes of Allen wrenches

Beyond thankful. For family. For colleagues. For work that I love. For hand drawn pictures of rainbows that I find weeks later in my coat pocket.

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

Lol. I can imagine Marx sending this around Christmas time.

If literacy means the co-constructed functional ability to communicate meaning across written and spoken modes, then “academic” literacies need to broaden beyond the obsession with formal norms of “standard” language. #literacies #langsky #academicsky #edusky

Lots of new folks joining every day, so I’m sharing this starter pack of critical applied linguists. Help me find others to add!

Wrapping up my first semester as an assistant professor. Lessons I’m still learning: - I know nothing about my students unless I ask them - You can’t do it all in one day/course/semester - What we do in a classroom changes people’s lives - I have a lot to learn! #edusky #academicsky

Starter pack for sociolinguistics. Let me know if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/SN3TdzY

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

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

Starter packs are a phenomenal way to make connections. Here’s one for Critical Applied Linguists. Let me know if you would like me to add you! go.bsky.app/Yv8eX9

Community for Education Scholars in all areas and concentrations looking to find each other! Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! #EducationScholars go.bsky.app/BaXvoap

Things I miss about living in Lansing: Parks A back yard Tall trees Red Cedar River Basically I am tired of living indoors.

Made a starter pack for language educators! If you teach languages and I missed you (or if I mistakenly added you), please let me know! #langchat #iTeachWL go.bsky.app/H28UmQh

Linguistic anthropology, language in culture starter pack! Please share and let me know if you want to be added go.bsky.app/MQijNGW

I wonder if other media outlets will follow suit www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...

Grad student came into my office and closed the door. Said he wanted to explain why he hadn’t been participating much this semester, feeling like his ideas were dumb, his English not good enough. Toxic hierarchy and prestige are baked into the walls of schools and universities. #literacies

About 15 years ago we started the #literacies chat over on the bird app. It provided so many meaningful conversations & connections over the years. This includes some of those people & others in the field. Let me know who else I can add (and follow!) as we work to rebuild here! go.bsky.app/HZLhPr

Reminder to be your own first bird.

I never thought I’d be feeling a sense of accomplishment over writing 300 words