Thank you to everyone who came along to the Derry Show &Tell workshop last night! @nwmf.bsky.social @flandec.bsky.social @aislingoboyle.bsky.social @paulsceeny.bsky.social It rained, but only on the outside! Great conversations on ways of making community learning seen, transportable, and valued!

ESOL Provision

‘His delivery cut through class barriers’: Moby, Mala and other musicians on working with Benjamin Zephaniah www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

speaking in non-dominant patterns and using non-standard grammar has nothing empirically to do with ‘bad behaviour’ but it has lots to do with it ideologically

Academic Citizenship💪

am giving a talk at Goldsmith's on the 21 May on collaborating with teachers to design futures of linguistic justice in schools, it'll be fun and it's free 💜 www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

language ideologies are never just about language. here i show how they materialise in school discipline policies to construct representations of 'badly behaved' children. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

what does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? in new open access work i ask this question in the context of school discipline policies, looking at how ideologies of ‘im/proper language’ and ‘im/proper behaviour’ coalesce and get co-constructed with one another. doi.org/10.1080/0962...

Madrid plans to limit computer and tablet use in primary schools to two hours a week

this is today, at 4.30 GMT! me and clare will be talking about how our collaborations between critical applied linguists and teachers have been focused on dismantling linguistic injustice in schools, and building futures of linguistic justice 💜

I am delighted to share this article regarding neoliberal governments (Conservative/Labour 1997-2024) framing of ESOL provision in the UK.

One week to go! I'm looking forward to the opportunity to share and discuss empowering experiences of ESOL in adult education across Ireland/UK with my colleague and fellow ESOL activist, Dr Melanie Cooke.

Congrats!!!!!

The Oxford Handbook of Language & Prejudice, edited by Jane Setter, Sender Dovchin, and yours truly, rearticulates and expands upon the connections between language and prejudice. It is available for pre-order, so please ask your university or local library to order a copy: shorturl.at/gDhJA

Out of Putin’s war and Trump’s treachery, a new Europe is being born | Nathalie Tocci

Funny....All of a sudden, no one's performing arbitrary sex-change operations on unexpecting grade-schoolers anymore.

I've seen the tsunami coming

A worrying trend.....more Eastern block and Scandinavian counties to undoubtedly follow Poland plans military training for every adult male amid growing European security fears www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

This....

Beyond words.....

across 563 school behaviour policies, i found that notions of 'misbehaviour' coalesce with a whole constellation of linguistic features. of course, these linguistic features are not empirically connected to 'misbehaviour', but they are strongly ideologically connected.

Celebrating #WorldBookDay with a milestone - my book on supporting multilingual students was published last June! If you're a teacher looking for strategies to empower #multilingual learners, check it out: shorturl.at/afmKW #edusky #EAL

Cartoon by successpictures.

Is it?..........

Asylum seekers being forcibly expelled at EU borders, says top rights lawyer Source: The Guardian search.app/w8xG

President Trump’s executive order making English the official language of the U.S. was a long-sought victory for the English-only movement, which has ties to efforts to curb immigration and bilingual education.

i was so honoured to be asked to contribute to the 10 years of the BERA blog series .. here i write about longstanding and contemporary efforts to dismantle language ideologies as part of broader struggles for linguistic justice www.bera.ac.uk?p=56193

"Nancy Kerrigan must mend the breach with Tonya Harding--or resign"

🎓Higher Education News🎓 “Academics have accused the University of Edinburgh of using UK higher education’s financial crisis as a smokescreen for ‘incredibly arbitrary’ job cuts,” reports @julietterowsell.bsky.social. @timeshighered.bsky.social #academicsky #edusky #jobcuts

Trump makes (American) English official language of US Source: BBC search.app/xR8F

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Labour must target deprived areas or lose out to Reform, says former minister

Trump Signs Executive Order Making Official Language Of U.S. Remedial English

I’m torn between heartbreak and rage as Trump pulls funding from international efforts to treat and prevent HIV. We had never been in a better position to finally end this epidemic. Now we look likely to return to a time of soaring new infections and AIDS deaths. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

now with working link to register for this public seminar in Oxford 💜 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

UK is ‘hostile environment’ for Afghans amid rise in refusal of asylum claims, lawyer says Source: The Guardian search.app/Jhgz

please help find our colleague Yecid and hope that he is safe 🙏

Children’s commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza has set out a raft of measures for schools to help keep young people out of the youth justice system

‪ In the neoliberal university... teacher = service provider student = customer syllabus = brochure knowledge = product evaluations = customer feedback line manager = micro-manager* @vijayramjattan.bsky.social‬

In the neoliberal university... teacher = service provider student = customer syllabus = brochure knowledge = product evaluations = customer feedback

It does feel that the social contract has collapsed. 1970’s: • Get a degree • Get a 9-5 job • Get a suit & tie • Get a promotion • Get Married at 21 • Buy a House at 25 • Have 4-5 Kids & 1 dog • Retire at 60 with pension 2025: • Survive

Thanks, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), for the invitation and opportunity to raise the profile of ESOL provision on the Island of Ireland and the UK with my colleague Dr. Mel Cooke from Kings College London. I look forward to seeing you all then.

Thanks, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), for the invitation and opportunity to raise the profile of ESOL provision on the Island of Ireland and the UK with my colleague Dr. Mel Cooke from Kings College London. I look forward to seeing you all then.

in a couple of projects i have collaborated with the artist wendy wong to visualise linguistic stigmatisation in schools and efforts to resist such stigmatisation. a core aim is for teachers to use the images as prompts for discussion in classrooms, so please use and share! a few of the images ↓

contemporary political and academic efforts to emphasise 'oracy' in schools overlook the deficit thinking which lies at the root of how the concept was first theorised, as well as over-relying on a theory of change which frames spoken language as a panacea for social justice doi.org/10.1080/0305...

Always a privilege to be asked to contribute to Post 16 Educator. My article highlights how GCSE English and Maths block ‘newcomers’’ life chances in NI and suggests possible alternatives.👍💪✊

Cardiff University is planning to close all Modern Language due to financial difficulties. Another devastating loss, depriving students of the opportunity to engage with different languages and cultures.....evidence once more of the unending erosion of language education across the UK.