We were talking about work-life balance in class the other day, so these questions are coming at a perfect time. Also, how DO you prioritize projects?

Focus for the rest of 2022: listen to your intuition relentlessly and say no to anything that is not in alignment with the higher vision you have for your life

That moment when your student sends you a screenshot from their #BeReal showing they were in class because they forgot to sign the attendance sheet.

📚Cross-linguistic transfer in academic journal writing by Masha Kostromitina This study investigates the use of bundles in journal papers written by L1 English and L1 Russian to evaluate cross-linguistic transfer in L2 learners with L1 Russian ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl…

As much as I am a night owl, this winter, my brain absolutely refuses to function after it gets dark. Who cares that it’s only 5:30 pm—it’s bed time! (according to my brain)

You go Masha Kostromitina !!!

Why does my biology professor tell me I should use “do not” instead of “don’t” in my paper? @jesse_egbert explains register differences: youtube.com/shorts/n0Oks-8…

yes, please do enlighten me. email me at [email protected]

I had the best time this NYE with Masha Kostromitina here in New Jersey. This is my petition for Masha to stay here forever.

Conversation recordings for this month are due on Jan 15! Please consider contributing. We'll send you a $25 Amazon gift card for every 2 hours you submit. Info about how to submit is on our site bitly.ws/wgjh and in this video: youtube.com/shorts/oiNE6Q2…

Investigating a failed novel test of socio-pragmatic knowledge sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚩🚩NEW PUBLICATION ALERT 🚩🚩 What is a register? Accounting for linguistic and situational variation within – and outside of – textual varieties By Doug Biber and Jesse Egbert benjamins.com/catalog/rs.000…

Using Corpus Linguistics Tools in the ESL Writing Classroom PennTESOL East facebook.com/events/s/pennt…

Having a paper accepted: 🥳 🙌 🍾 Reviewing the proofs: 😭🤢🫣

I had a lot of fun writing about the Duolingo English Test's newest test item, which uses a lot of really cool #AI to create interactive experience for test takers, featuring our beloved Duolingo world characters! Check it out!

Who is going to #ICAME44? Masha Kostromitina, Tove Larsson and I are giving a presentation on the use of features of elaboration vs compression in spoken academic discourse. Next Thursday (05/18) at 9:30am (EDT) #corpuslinguistics

So looking forward to this presentation! Very excited to share the results of our SEM analysis of the BASE corpus.

Doctors in da house!

1) As @WVU_Worldlangfaculty, students’ right to quality education is always our priority, so prior to our appeal on 8/25, we sent a survey to 2,640 students who are currently enrolled in our UG classes. 1,755 answered. Full report point: worldlanguages.wvu.edu/about 👇thread

Read the letter with extensive rationale sent by AAAL's Executive Committee to the President, Provost, and Board of Governors of WVU, urging the reversal of the recommendation to eliminate the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (WLLL).