Thanks to all who came to our #CL2023 talk for great discussion of #wordfamilies in #LOTE! Credit must go to Language-Driven Pedagogy colleagues for 100s hours spent developing the word lists behind @MLPprofiler. Watch this space for next steps. In the meantime, check your counting units!

The slides from our #CL2023 talk "Build your own word family: An adaptable vocabulary profiler for French, German and Spanish" are now available to download here: osf.io/c8qbj/

Great talk from Rasha K Soliman - رشا قدري سليمان & colleagues BAAL2023York on developing vocab profiles for beginner #Arabic. Main challenge is ensuring the range of lang varieties is represented. Freq lists only available for standard Arabic. Word simplicity & commonality are important criteria

1/2 The MultilingProfiler multilingprofiler.net now has all 3 Awarding Organisation new GCSE wordlists for Fr, Gm, & Sp! Kudos to Natalie Finlayson Laurence Anthony This tool is a game changer for curriculum design, lesson resources, and all types of text creation. I love using it. 😊

Non-technical summary of our paper on the rationale behind the development of MultilingProfiler MultilingProfiler

Congrats Natalie Finlayson for winning the 2023 System Early Career Research Award. Great news! :) Great article, here: tinyurl.com/4kwuh3s8 And the amazing MultilingProfiler, here: multilingprofiler.net Laurence Anthony Natalie Finlayson

Great news just in. Natalie Finlayson has won the 2023 System Early Career Research Award for her work on our (open access) paper describing MultilingProfiler. You can read the news here, tinyurl.com/258fhfr6, and read the paper here: tinyurl.com/yfstaurr. Congrats Natalie!

Yen Dang and Marijana Macis presenting their really interesting and challenging work identifying Spanish-English cognates in academic spoken vocabulary and considering pedagogical implications Also great to see innovative uses of MultilingProfiler in cognate analysis 😀 #TaLC2024

Very excited to be releasing a new feature later today ... just in time for TaLC conference 2024

📢New feature: cognate highlighting Users can now choose to highlight full cognates with English and include them in profiles This saves time on adding them manually to an extended list False cognates are also flagged, as these may need some extra attention from teachers

Exciting news! The full programme for the AI MFL Teachers' Conference on Friday, 27th September 2024, at City of London Freemen's School is now available. This one-day event will focus on using AI to transform language teaching for the new GCSE. fb.me/e/caPyjrUXl

Exciting news! The latest episode of ‘The Kate Languages Podcast’, which I produce, has just been released. In this episode, I join Kate Clifton to discuss how AI can support teachers preparing for the new GCSE in Modern Foreign Languages

MultilingProfiler proved invaluable for analysing GCSE vocabulary in written texts against exam board word lists. It's brilliant for ensuring teaching materials are both comprehensible and curriculum-aligned.

This session will feature the MultilingProfiler, a freely available online tool developed by Dr Natalie Finlayson (Natalie Finlayson), Prof Emma Marsden (UoY Department of Education), and Prof Laurence Anthony (Laurence Anthony)! multilingprofiler.net

This weekend, as part of #ALR2024, I'm giving a **free** workshop on #vocabularyprofiling with MultilingProfiler and ChatGPT on behalf of @lpedagogy. Sunday 3 Nov 10.30-11.30 GMT. Link to register: zoom.us/webinar/regist… Expanded abstract below.⬇️ #mfltwitterati #edutwitter

I recently attended a fascinating workshop at the 5th International Symposium on Applied Linguistics #ALR2024, delivered by Natalie Finlayson from the University of York and @lpedagogy. The session explored innovative ways to combine AI and vocabulary profiling in language teaching

Have you used, or are you using, MultilingProfiler in your teaching, research, or materials design? If so, we would love to feature your project on our site! Really exciting to see so many applications of the tool in all three areas so far. Contact: multilingprofiler.net

🎥 We’ve created a series of short video tutorials to help you get the most out of #MultilingProfiler. Watch walkthroughs of 11 key features—with examples, commentary, and research explanations👇 youtube.com/playlist?list=… #L2learning #languagelearning #linguistics #edtech

Note for teachers – The story hasn’t been checked against the new GCSE high-frequency list. Use MultilingProfiler to analyse and adapt vocabulary.