New open access publication on action research, lesson & learning study (in German) from CARN DACH German speaking network #actionresearch depot.phaidra.at/detail_object/…

UKRI suspended the whole EDI panel for months in response to the Minister’s accusations. I can only speak for myself, but this clearly signalled to me that doing EDI work is not only unrewarded & unvalued but also risky to wellbeing, career & reputation. researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-pol…

Thanks to NEARI for such interesting presentations and discussions on ethics in action research this morning.

My "Heritage Language Identity Questionnaire" is up & running (paper will🤞follow soon)! For multilingual families anywhere. Researchers & orgs (ie schools) can have their own subspace to understand the families they work with better. A labour of love. hliq.group.shef.ac.uk

Our paper ‘Teacher perspectives on the introduction of linguistics in the languages classroom: Evidence from a co-creation project on French, German and Spanish’ just dropped! It’s not a snappy title but it is a labour of love bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/be… Linguistics in MFL Project #MFLTwitterati

A message to Mr Sunak.

TL;DR? Check out Joe Dale's summary of my reflections on the state of the art of AI in language teaching here: docs.google.com/document/d/1jm… #AI #LanguageLearning #mfltwitterati #langchat

Some people have responded to that chart with "That can’t be right", or "We can’t be worse than America". I’m afraid the chart is right. 15 years ago the UK’s record on homelessness *was* not too dissimilar to other developed countries, but things have rapidly deteriorated.

Looking forward to our ARC webinar today with ECML Council of Europe Education - I'll be introducing Jane O'Toole CARN talking on potential of action research in language education ecml.at/Resources/Webi…

Join the ECML webinar on "Exploring the potential of #actionresearch in #language #education: Opportunities and challenges in local and global contexts" 🗓️21 May 2024, 17:00 -18:00 CET Graz time 🌐youtube.com/watch?v=Dwp5yS… ℹ️ More information: ecml.at/webinars

Thanks to Jane O'Toole for a fascinating talk for ECML Council of Europe Education on action research in language education in the Irish context. On YouTube now: youtube.com/watch?v=Dwp5yS…

This tells you everything you need to know... Try to spot the impact of the strike action, folks...🤪 Also, we had NEVER had Doctors on strike prior to 2010, REMEMBER THIS! Carol Vorderman Dr Dan Goyal

Keir Starmer was right to say in #ITVDebate that "we desperately need more teachers". Our latest postgraduate ITT forecast (based on applications so far up to end of May) is that we expect recruitment to be ~23,000 overall, 10,000 short of the overall target

Still two countries: how Germany voted. (Black=Union; blue=AfD).

Nowhere in Paris did the far-right come top

"Fewer pupils achieved grades 9-6 in languages compared to English and maths... And far more achieved grades 3-1 (or were ungraded) in languages compared to English and maths."

Great Sunak’s big achievement is getting us into the Horizon Agreement - an Agreement we were already in until the Conservative Government left it. Slow hand clap #bbcdebate

Bridget Phillipson attended a state school, was on free school meals, benefited from extracurricular music and drama lessons and read History and Modern Languages at university. Hope this means good things for education in general and the arts and humanities in particular.

The extreme Right are very loud rather than very popular. But as long as the media mistake loudness for popularity, the extreme Right will keep getting more airtime than their rivals. That’s not to underestimate the very real frustrations with politics that many of their

I'm delighted to share that the article I wrote with Hannah M. King (hmking-linguist.bsky.social) as part of our Multilingualism in schools (& beyond) project funded by BAAL: British Association for Applied Linguistics has just been published 🎉. You can access it for free via this link: tandfonline.com/eprint/FI6CUMA… (limited copies available)