UK business groups call for more foreign-language teaching in colleges theguardian.com/education/2023… #mfl #LanguageLearning

Report by British Academy published today & launched online this afternoon by APPG Modern Languages & The British Academy shows that 'despite importance of linguistic skills in many jobs', 'ability to learn French, German or Spanish, let alone less common languages, has become a postcode lottery'

Launching today! Languages Provision in UK Further Education. See Centre for Language Education Research at Queen's project page for info qub.ac.uk/research-centr… link to report ➡️thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications/l… co-authored by Centre for Language Education Research at Queen's's Ian Collen 🇪🇺 Aisling O'Boyle biling Liu & @SSESW colleagues Dr Leanne Henderson Jennifer Roberts

Find out how to use #LancsBox X in research and teaching. 24 February 2-3pm UK time Join a webinar organised by CASS and CLARIN UK Free registration: forms.office.com/e/LBLqyZiqX9

📅 Monday, February 20, 4 pm CET: Brave New Storyworlds: Literary AI Narratives in Contemporary English Literature 🤖📚 With Dr Curtis Runstedler ➡️ bit.ly/3YS2CSz #AI #EnglishLiterature #AINarratives #KlaraAndTheSun #Robbie

Today we are celebrating a whole year of survival in its new location!!! #Bonsai

Se non hai mai visitato il #CarnevaleVenezia, è davvero uno spettacolo meraviglioso!!!!

On the sill above the (turned off) radiator…#plusses #costoflivingcrisis

1. What does the adoption of a 'visual stress' approach to reading difficulties tell us about the state of teacher knowledge? We have been struck by the number of schools using coloured paper / overlays as standard interventions for children with reading difficulties. A 🧵

For an #EMCA project, we are looking for transcribers of data in #English, #German, and #Czech.

Arnulf Deppermann and I are organising a lecture series at IDS Mannheim and Uni Heidelberg on Language–Body–Interaction, with inspiring talks given by ingenious scholars and dear colleagues. You are welcome to attend the talks! #EMCA @pHaddington Leelo Keevallik Sara Merlino

As a lone parent, I’ve always worked hard in a professional role (and continue to do so) to keep a roof over mine and my daughter’s heads. But having recently been declared #homeless (no fault eviction due to property redevelopment), reading this is scary bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

Do you have a social science, humanities or arts background and use research skills or work with research? Please consider responding to a survey investigating the identity and careers of those who do... SHAPE research careers survey vitae.ac.uk/impact-and-eva…

Glad I was to stumble across this little reminder by Mick Billig on ‘human-free zones’ in psychology and ‘populating’ your writing … keen to read more, bps.org.uk/psychologist/m…

Not long left to apply for this (… if only I could speak Urdu)

Learning to live mindfully helps us get more out of life and cope better in difficult times 🌤️ Join us for Mindful March and find ways to approach each day with awareness and compassion actionforhappiness.org/mindful-march #MindfulMarch

Shakespeare is usually associated with powerful language, but what if we viewed his work through numbers? Our new blog by Jonathan Culpeper explores using computers to identify large-scale and subtle patterns in Shakespeare’s language: orlo.uk/plsOT #ShakespeareDay 🎭

What a spectacular treat #aurora #NorthernLights #saffronwalden