#conference #callforproposals Diversity and Inclusivity in English Language Education (DIELE) Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Vietnam, December 11–12, 2020 aila.info/diele/

Sympathy: I am sorry you are in pain. (Distant) Empathy: I can imagine what this pain feels like. (Shared) Compassion: You are suffering and I will do what I can to help. (Connected and Action-oriented)

“I learned Spanish as a young adult and everyone would always tell me that I spoke it wrong. The problem was that I was told I spoke English wrong too." —Elisabet Velasquez #AboutThisPoem poets.org/poem/professio…

Poem of the Day: First Grade - poetryfoundation.org/poems/52814/fi…

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"Ask the moon. Ask what it has witnessed." This beauty by Linda Pastan:

Reading Jan Blommaert's Durkheim and the Internet and struggling to accept that he's no longer with us. You are so greatly missed, Jan!

Hybrid conference alert! (In more ways than one! ❤️)

You can make a difference in the world without working on the weekends.

A wonderful reminder that linguistic intelligibility is achieved relationally! Experiences of “language barriers” are often rooted in a lack of meaningful relation rather than linguistic discontinuity.

One way to understand “being unprofessional” is noting behaviour that upsets white, middle-class, abled sensibilities.