I became interested in humanism through many chats with my mother & thus since her passing I became a paid up member. I would urge like-minded followers to consider doing likewise - the #Humanists in the UK do some brilliant work.

We're delighted to announce 15 fully funded scholarships for English teachers from Bangladesh, India & Sri Lanka to join our MSc TESOL (Online) in Sept 2026, including a 2-week visit to Stirling! Funded by @britishcouncil.bsky.social. Further details: www.stir.ac.uk/scholarships... #TeamStirling

🎉 Now Available: Special Issue of the CIFLTE Newsletter! This special edition celebrates our two-day symposium Task-Based Language Teaching in Action: Global Perspectives & Practices. 🔗 Read the special issue: heyzine.com/flip-book/15... #language #teaching #TBLT #multilingual #TESOL #TCSOL #TC

#JeremyCorbyn talks to @thecanaryuk.bsky.social on: #RachelReeves #Budget #Budget2025; #YourParty conference & beyond. Towards a new #DemocraticSocialist party. PLEASE no more internal divisions stoked up, it seems to me, from shadows behind the scenes. #InStruggle www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

Please sign the petition. #COVIDInquiry finds #BorrisJohnson responsible for needless deaths of 23,000. #TaxPayers should not be paying him £115,000 expenses every year for life. #COVID act.38degrees.org.uk/act/strip-Bo...

Listen below to hear co-author @grahburton.bsky.social talking about our @candlinmynard.bsky.social book The Big Beasts of English Grammar and grammar issues in general. youtu.be/Zafx24UvFg8?...

New #openaccess #TESOL article: the final term paper I wrote for the "Neuroscience of Learning" course (Harvard University) I took during my sabbatical last year. Researching & writing this paper was super interesting: zenodo.org/records/1758...

#Capacity building for #EnglishLanguageTeaching in low- and middle-income countries. Up to 10 #MEd #TESOL scholarships for #teachers & related professionals. #KnowledgeBuilding in #LanguageEducation, #AppliedLinguistics. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Please take a moment to sign & share this petition. Stop #UniversityOfNottingham removing #ModernLanguages #ModernForeignLanguages #MFL courses. #TESOL Academic sends support to all students & staff. #Solidarity #InStruggle @ucu.org.uk #AppliedLinguistics #LanguageEduction c.org/n67dGYh6tV

"Designating English as the official language of the United States will not promote unity, empower multilingual learners of English, or promote a cohesive and efficient society." #tesol @iraal.bsky.social

#ComputerAssistedLanguageLearning #CALL #MobileAssistedLanguageLearning #MALL & a proposed alternative of #MobileAssistedLanguageUse #MALU My work in a nutshell, 276 citations according to #GoogleScholar - #KnowledgeBuilding in #AppliedLinguistics #TESOL #LanguageEducation youtu.be/igHMNRFb3cU?...

If you missed the live show, you can listen back here: www.ttradio.org/listenback/e...

Join me on @ttradioofficial.bsky.social at 21:00 (UK time) tonight for an exploration of generative AI and writing.

#OpenAccess #KnowledgeBuilding in #LanguageEducation #AppliedLinguistics #TESOL #ESOL #ESP #EAP

Sometimes the mobile digital #LinguisticLandscape is all about sports! And buses!

You would think that journalists and commentators realised how much #LanguageMatters, after 40 years of #CultureWars and 10 years of social-media inflamed #hate-speech. Check out J L Austin's 1955 book 'How To Do Things With Words' where he coined the term 'performative utterance'.

This @routledgebooks.bsky.social by Stakounis, H my former student looks good. Thanks for the acknowledgement Helena. Always nice to feel one's #ProfessionalWork is a helpful stepping stone for others #Education #HigherEducation #KnowledgeBuilding in #TESOL #AppliedLinguistics #LanguageEducation

#OpenAccess #TESOL #AppliedLinguistics

#Racist #UK #LabourParty does not learn & continues to pander to rather than challenge the #FarRight I wonder how many " #NativeSpeaker " anti- #immigration #Reform supporters have A level standards of #English? #TESOL #AppliedLinguistics #EthnicDiversity #RefugeesWelcome www.bbc.com/news/article...

#LabourTogether group in #UKLabourParty - little to do with #Labour, much to do with #capital. Nothing to do with #together everything to do with division. It's "worked" - they are now in government. #PoliticalLies #AppliedLinguistics Say NO sign up to #YourParty www.thecanary.co/the-fraud/20...

UNLAWFUL ARREST This woman was arrested for holding a sign with “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action” on it, a totally lawful statement to make, even under the Labour government’s absurd new laws proscribing the direct action group. wedonotcomply.org

These governments are making a lot of work for the compilers of the Oxford dictionary - the definition of terrorism now has to include “delivering food to children” and “sitting quietly”

The latest issue of Modern English Teacher contains an article that develops some of the ideas I shared in my IATEFL plenary earlier this year. pavilionelt.com/met/

Brilliant Nik. Thanks for sharing ☺️ 😂

No wonder #KierStarmer as #LabourParty leader stuck by #PeterMandelson friend of #SexOffender #JeffreyEpsitien - after all he was devoted to spending every day undermining the leadership of #JeremyCorbyn #NiceOne #Starmer. For #RealChange sign up #YourParty #YourPartyUK youtube.com/watch?v=X0dP...

#YourPartyUK #YourParty & @greenparty.org.uk are clear STOP the #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine

Successful campaign for plaque in honour of #PitCorder - founding figure of & one of the most influential in C20th #AppliedLinguistics. #LanguageEducation #TESOL #BALL #IATEFL #BritishCouncil @baal2025.bsky.social @iatefl.bsky.social @britishcouncil.bsky.social yorkcivictrust.co.uk/plaque-unvei...

#OpenAccess #PeerReviewedResearch #KnowledgeBuilding in #LanguageEducation #TESOL #AppliedLinguistics on #GenerativeAI #AI #EdTech #CALL #MobileAssistedLanguageUse ( #MALU )

Hi. @zackpolanski.bsky.social I note @graceblakeley.substack.com likes this suggestion. If you 2 could sort it that would be brilliant. Challenging #ExistingPowerRelations needs this to happen. Please @boldpolitics.bsky.social try to do it 4 a #ProgressiveAlternative @greenparty.org.uk #YourPartyUK

Agreed @zackpolanski.bsky.social channel @boldpolitics.bsky.social is a brilliant new outlet & after 1st interview with #AshSarkar it would be good to see @graceblakeley.substack.com up next. Ash made me think #YourPartyUK is where I belong, but Grace might persuade me it's the @greenparty.org.uk

There is now a serious progressive alternative - help form & shape a progressive #PoliticalParty for #RealChange, including in #Education. Sign up to #YourPartyUK

For #YourPartyUK our #EnglandFlag #StGeorgeFlag even on roundabouts can celebrate #ethnicity of #StGeorge who had #Greek father & #Palestinian mother, thus representing #ethnicdiversity #refugeeswelcome etc & much positivity besides. Let's turn the #farright narrative on its head. Join us Sign up

#OpenAccess #PeerReviewedResearch #EthnicDiversity #KnowledgeBuilding in #LanguageEducation #TESOL #AppliedLinguistics

#KnowledgeBuilding in #LanguageEducation #AppliedLinguistics #TESOL

Based on evidence so far #DavidLammy doing the right thing on #Gaza is quite unlikely. I hope I'm wrong. The #Palestinian people, including some of it's brightest hopes for a better future deserve so much more. #InStruggle. #FreePalestine. For #RealChange #UCU should support #YourPartyUK

New & more progressive #EducationPolicy at ALL levels from #nursery to #university will, in due course, need to come out of #YourPartyUK. In the meantime any thoughts from interested followers on what the party should call itself?

Ed Tech Digest larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/08/25/e...

#ForTheMany Let's do this #RealChange

#KnowledgeBuilding in #LanguageEducation #AppliedLinguistics #TESOL. #OpenAccess

#OpenAccess #PeerReviewedResearch #KnowledgeBuilding in #LanguageEducation #TESOL #AppliedLinguistics

I think you might mean "Occasionally this government listens to workers. And acts"? For a #government that will do far better sign up to #YourPartyUK & help build a #NewPoliticalParty which challenges #ExistingPowerRelations & will thus genuinely be on the side of #WorkingPeople.

Are you currently teaching ESL, EFL, EAP, or English in any context and have 6+ months of classroom experience? Then please help Paulette Papapericleous with her MA dissertation at King’s College London! 👉 Take the survey here: qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

First interview by @zarahsultana.bsky.social on a #NewPoliticalParty. Good to see her bypass the #MSM & give it to @novaramedia.com coz even the slightly #centerleft mainstream (e.g. @newsagents.bsky.social patronise & mock us - "you can't make this up"). #YourPartyUK youtu.be/VDC8lNkFfTQ?...

It's started & yet we already have 300,000+, more than the Tories or Reform. As we grow they will come for our policies & fail, so then they will ruthlessly undermine individuals. The lessons of history is that we must build an alternative #hegemony. #YourParty #ForTheMany #TaxTheRich

In #UK #Education, #AppliedLinguistics, #LanguageEducation, #HEI, #ESOL, #TESOL & #InternationalStudents we need a real #progressivealternative to @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

@philipjkerr.bsky.social on a BC study What's (not) changed in #ELT. I'd argue #praxis can usefully bridge & challenge a binary #theory - #research vs #practice - #teaching dicotomy in #TESOL. @thornburyscott.bsky.social on #mediation is useful. adaptivelearninginelt.wordpress.com/2025/07/17/w...

"When history looks back people will wonder how artists could have had a microphone in front of them and not said anything." I spoke today to the News Agents. 👇🏼

If you're getting notifications from Academia(.)edu about AI versions of your papers now being podcasts, that's because the (predatory) platform has opted you into AI-enhanced outputs, which you can turn off in your Account Settings here.

How #multimodal is your classroom? Read more by Rachel Knowles on page 51 of the #EAL Journal. naldic.org.uk/publications... #naldic #multimodal

I support the campaign to eliminate #nativespeaker prejudice in the #EU #CEFR. If you feel the same please sign & share this open letter. #AppliedLinguistics #LanguageEducation #TESOL #NativeSpeaker #NativeSpeakerism. #English as a #LinguaFranca openletter.earth/open-letter-...