Benio Suzuki

18 months. 12,000 questions. A whole lot of anxiety. What I learned from reading students’ ChatGPT logs Students increasingly use AI chatbots for anything from academic queries to emotional quandaries. But are they missing out on the chance to make their own mistakes? Three undergrads reveal all …

18 months. 12,000 questions. A whole lot of anxiety. What I learned from reading students’ ChatGPT logs

Calling local EMCA scholars:

Unlock the Power of Membership Categorisation Analysis with Visiting Professor @robinjsmith.bsky.social
27 – 29 May | Wits University | Research Methods Workshop

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(via John Heritage) For those of you who cannot attend this event, a livestream will begin May 18th at 2:15 Pacific on:
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Flyer with 50% off discount code ICJ50, for book titled "Ideologies of Communication in Japan."

New book coming out July15 2025! My chapter is on #L2 #Japanese Speakers and #Language #Ideologies, I examine the impact of #Monolingual bias on beliefs about unwanted #CodeSwitching .Use discount code ICJ50 & get 50%off @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social here: www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...

📑 An #openaccess article for your rainy Wednesday reading, "Working memory, L2 proficiency, and task complexity: Independent and interactive effects on L2 written performance," in Studies in Second Language Acquisition by Olena Vasylets (@ub.edu & @uab.cat) & colleagues 👏

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S027...

Friends as mediators in study abroad contexts in Japan: negotiating stereotypical discourses about Japanese culture Upon encountering unfamiliar words or observing local practices in study abroad contexts, second language learners may discuss aspects of the target language and culture with their peers – 'non-nat...

Full article: Friends as mediators in study abroad contexts in Japan: negotiating stereotypical discourses about Japanese culture www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The incorporation of languaging tasks into pragmatics training for L2 teachers: The case of a Spanish graduate teaching assistant - Li Yang, 2025 To enhance the visibility of pragmatics in second language (L2) teacher education, this study observed the development of a Spanish-speaking graduate teaching a...

The incorporation of languaging tasks into pragmatics training for L2 teachers: The case of a Spanish graduate teaching assistant - Li Yang, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

L2 Arabic pragmatics in the classroom: Insights from language instructors’ beliefs and practices Instructional pragmatics praxis has received increased attention in recent years, but a good deal of this literature has focused on the L2 English con…

L2 Arabic pragmatics in the classroom: Insights from language instruct... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sunday morn - reread.

Most recommended for anyone engaged in research ‘on’ other communities. Lays down the critical grammar for ethical research: work with/alongside not ‘on’. The ‘how to’ constitutes ethics such that research isn’t “one of the dirtiest words”.

🧠📚 New study by Radha Chandy & Raquel Serrano (@ub.edu) & Ana Pellicer-Sánchez (University College London) in Applied Psycholinguistics! Discover how context impacts the way we process and learn new words in a second language while reading. #openaccess

🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📍A wonderful time in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium at MOBILLE 2025 (Mobilizing language learners and teachers - International conference) at UCLouvain! GRAL member & PhD candidate Bridget Murphy presented her work on MALL and L2 learning. Plenaries by Sonia Rocca, Lourdes Ortega, & Marjan Asgari.

It’s out! Ten years of long distance collaboration, much respect to my co-author & friend Fethi and all who collaborated. We feel the book makes a contribution to language policy (theory, critique and method), to language rights and problem-solving.

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Here’s the link to the Special issue of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 47:3 (2024):

Decolonizing or recolonizing?
AI through the eyes of applied linguists, language teachers, and language learners.

benjamins.com/catalog/aral...

Posted this at the old place, but thought folks on @bsky.app might like to know I finally met my "mother".

EuroSLA 34 call for papers: deadline extended to 12 December 2024!

Your personality changes when you speak another language, but that’s not always a bad thing Emotions are more vivid in your mother tongue, but you’re more objective when speaking a second language.

Your personality changes when you speak another language, but that’s not always a bad thing

theconversation.com/your-persona...

Harnessing the Affective Domain in English-Medium Instruction This month we published The Affective Dimension in English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education edited by David Lasagabaster, Alberto Fernández-Costales and Flor de Lis González-Mujico. In this p…

Harnessing the Affective Domain in English-Medium Instruction

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Interested in conversation analysis but don't know where to start? The next "CA for beginners" online one day workshop may be for you.
Thursday 16th January 2025
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Registration £40 at:
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Screenshot of the US version of The Office accompanying the headline "Stop asking 'how are you'? Harvard researchers say this is what people do when making small talk"

"'How are you?' These are the three most useless words in the world of communication."

This compelling (but wrong/daft) assertion is based on #communication myth rather than how we actually talk 🧐

And asking "how are you" can even save lives...

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[Bringing #EMCA threads to Bluesky!]

Language shouldn’t be used as a weapon to attack someone and make them quiet.

To those who are attending JALT 2024 in Shizuoka. Our Pragmatics SIG will hold a forum on Pragmatics and Globalisation from 13:45 on Sunday, in Room 906. Please come join us!!

#JALT2024 #Pragmatics

Technology in Language Teaching & Learning

New #openaccess paper:
Neff, J., Arciaga, K., & Burri, M. (2024). EFL students' and teachers' perceptions of the ethical uses of AI tools. Technology in Language Teaching & Learning, 6(3), 1–19
www.castledown.com/journals/tlt...

Fuji #JALT2024

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