Just out: Research Cultures in Applied Linguistics and TESOL (Lee McCallum, Dara Tafazoli, & Ali Al-Hoorie, 2025, Eds.). Like all ALP books, this volume is 100% #openaccess appliedlinguisticspress.org/home/catalog/m…

One of the most thoughtful, thought-provoking projects I've seen in the field. So glad to see this book out 100% #openaccess with Applied Linguistics Press!

Really excited to read the newest (FREE!!!) book from Applied Linguistics Press! Particularly relevant in the transition to a new role and institution and thinking about how we intentionally and unintentionally create research cultures and socialize peers and students.

We're still taking applicants for ViVID fellowships! As long as you're a LCTL instructor teaching in the USA, you qualify to gain professional development with language teaching experts & a monthly stipend for joining other LCTL instructors! Apply by 7/15 maflt.cal.msu.edu/vivid/

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” — Doechii at the #BETAwards

Submitted my dissertation. Woah. 🤯😮‍💨

No King Trump No Kings Day #NoKingsDay

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Excited to share our [Open Access] review in Language Teaching: Suzuki, Maie, Hui (2025). Research timeline: Automatization in second language learning. This state-of-the-art synthesis examines 45 pivotal articles (1982-2025). rb.gy/ca6gc5

I am now officially Dr. Matt Coss! Words can't really capture my gratitude to everyone, including my #langchat friends, who made this journey possible and so worthwhile. (Dissertation acknowledgements here: bit.ly/3ZKnWfz). On to the next adventure!

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Technology and Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Connecting research and pedagogy benjamins.com/catalog/lllt.63

Cool to see this book officially available for pre-order! Really proud of this collaborative international project. benjamins.com/catalog/lllt.63

Yet again, we're in one of those moments when a college offers an interesting elective course, and clowns online get all huffy about it and whine that college education has become trivial and ask what job a student will get with this course. So, a quick explainer. (thread)

ACTFL joins IFLTA in expressing deep concern over Indiana's HEA 1001-2025 and its threat to 400+ academic programs—including world language and teacher education degrees. The long-term impact extends far beyond state lines. Read more via the link below. bit.ly/3U5lqgA

Herce & Critch (2025). Task‐based needs analysis for a Medical Spanish course - Rincón Herce - Foreign Language Annals - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fl…

New article and podcast episode on Hacking Chinese; share and enjoy: 16 reasons to learn to write Chinese characters by hand: hackingchinese.com/reasons-to-lea… #learnchinese #handwriting #hanzi #chinesecharacters

Hot off the press! (If you can’t access it, please get in touch)

When a history museum rewrites history to appease the president, it stops being a museum and starts being state propaganda. Straight-up Orwellian.

KcManus et al. (2025). Revisiting Blocking Effects in Second Language Learning: A Close Replication of Ellis and Sagarra (2010b) - McManus - Language Learning - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/la…