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Missed today's symposium on translanguaging? Here's the video to catch up: youtu.be/xn7BntsNk1I

Language-on-the-Move interview with Joseph Lo Bianco now has a transcript, thanks to Brynn Quick /brɪn kwɪk/ languageonthemove.com/community-lang…

Glimmer of light at the end of a very long (very Anglophone) tunnel. "Language Policy in Action" finally out in 2025!

Great looking conference! Detailed call for abstracts: deh.ulab.edu.bd/deh-internatio…

Very happy to finally see this in print. Congratulations to Maria for her hard work.links.springernature.com/f/a/F6WGtbZPmH…

All the taxpayer $$ going to academic publishers, yet I find myself repeatedly writing "I cannot provide volume, issue or page numbers for this article because they are not assigned yet". Surely the Googling I am doing can be done by diverting some of that $$ for proper proofing?

This new article comes from Nalina Samarn's wonderful thesis, which opened up a new angle on the rather over-studied topic of ELT textbooks - how they are promoted through strategic discourse by major publishers. Read: dropbox.com/scl/fi/246kfca…

Well worth a read! Open access: jbe-platform.com/content/journa…

Textbooks are key determiners of practice in language education, and unless we find a way to rethink them there is little chance of significant transformation:

Now out with in volume/issue, this paper looks at the linguistic landscape of two Islamic schools in the Deep South of Thailand, showing just how much meaning visible language in educational spaces has for teachers and students. Free copy: dropbox.com/scl/fi/7dja3rp…

Today's feel good moment

Great to see our study on building a corpus of student EMI academic writing published in RMAL! The article describes the interaction of theoretical, methodological and practical factors in a large-scale, multi-site corpus data collection. Free access: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

In this very short article, I reflect on the future of (English) language education. In short, AI is coming for us and we need to think about how we can go beyond "just English" in our classrooms. Open access: so04.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/LEAR…

Finally, a copy of our book arrived today. It's good to see it in print. Although it is a depressing story, I hope it's somehow useful for people who are going through similar struggles and for those who are trying to reimagine or remake our universities. collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our…

“…findings underscore the need for educational policies that harness linguistic diversity to foster academic equity and success… crucial role of language experience and socioeconomic factors in shaping educational outcomes..”. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Now in volume/issue, this article looks at how constructing linguistic borders can serve both oppression and resistance in online discourse. Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S00474…

NEW FROM 53(3) "(Trans)languaging, power, and resistance: Bordering as discursive agency" by Kristof Savski doi.org/10.1017/S00474…… #Translanguaging #LinguisticBorders #Bordering #CodeSwitching #Scale #Resistance #DiscursiveAgency