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BREAKING NEWS- The University will continue to offer joint degree programmes

Great opportunity for UK-based early career researcher in language assessment research...deadline approaching! careers.britishcouncil.org/job/London-Eme…

New report: Policy Engagement in Languages Research: - by UCFL @ucflangs.bsky.social Policy Advisory Wendy Bennett The report, based on an event at ILCS, presents key insights into policy engagement in languages research & looks at both challenges & opportunities. university-council-for-languages.org/2024/01/09/pol…

Out open access today in NFS Journal (Nottingham French Studies)! Very chuffed to be part of this special issue which combines cracking research from colleagues with an important message on the impact of precarity on research in French studies euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.336…

🚨new paper alert (with George Bailey Natalie Braber Meredith O'Hara-Brown ) ‘How ‘U’ are ‘U’ words? benjamins.com/catalog/eww.00… We provide the first empirical study of what David Crystal calls ‘the most famous debate on the English language and social class’ (1/2)

Looking for SLTs or NQP-SLT currently working in the UK to participate in my dissertation research. Please get in touch if interested or if you have any questions! #DLD #bilingualism #SLT

BREAKING: University of Aberdeen management have removed the threat of redundancy from all staff in Modern Languages. As a result, strike action from Aberdeen UCU will no longer take place. Victory to the lecturers!

Looking forward to receiving abstracts for the special issue of LSP on Languages in UK education: lspjournal.com/post/call-for-…

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

Did you catch @inmfl at Chartered Institute of Linguists conference last week about the need to bring #linguistics into the languages curriculum? Evidence of the benefits is piling up! British Educational Research Journal BERA just published our Arts and Humanities Research Council co-creation work with teachers: bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/be…

I stopped apologising for my poor German, and something wonderful happened | Ying Reinhardt theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Do you speak a ‘big’ global language? Here’s what my tiny language can teach you | Ana Schnabl theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Young people in Britain aren’t bad at learning languages – but the school system doesn’t make it easy for them bit.ly/3JzwzB7

Looking for an academic post from September? If you have expertise in Romance languages and in syntax/semantics, then come and work with me and a wonderful group of people on a The Leverhulme Trust project at Language & Linguistics at Newcastle. DEADLINE 27th MAY! jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastle-…

🥳I'm so happy to report that I passed my #PhD viva with minor corrections! Thank you to my examiners Sharynne McLeod Karen Forbes for a great discussion and really positive experience. Thank you to my supervisors Jenny Gibson and Napoleon Katsos for supporting me on this journey🎓

Report on Modern Languages Closures and Restructurings university-council-for-languages.org/2024/07/08/rep… There are also worrying signs that curriculum reviews are particularly hitting the humanities, and modern languages in particular, but there are also creative solutions emerging.

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