AERA Second Language Research SIG

Virtual Book Launch: Translanguaging in Action in English-Medium Classrooms

March 18, 4:00–5:30 PM (EST) via Zoom. Register here: rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/regi.... We hope to see you there!

Call for Submission: Racial Justice in Multilingual Education - Deadline: February 28, 2026
(penn.manifoldapp.org/journals/rjme)
The journal Racial Justice in Multilingual Education is accepting submissions for their next issue.

Please reach out to the editorial team at info@rjme.org.

AERA 2026 SLR SIG MENTORING PROGRAM (11TH)
DEADLINE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 11:59PM PT

Mentee Application (docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...)
Mentor Application
(docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...)

SLR SIG Seed Grant Guidelines AERA Second Language Research SIG Critical Language Education Seed Research Grant Program Submission Deadline: October 15, 2025 The Second Language Research Special Interest Group (SIG) of the America...

🚨 The AERA Second Language Research SIG is launching the Critical Language Education Seed Grant! 🎓✍️
$500–$1,000 awards for critical research on language and inequality.
Deadline: Oct 15, 2025.
Details + apply 👉 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#LanguageEd #ResearchFunding #EducationEquity

SLR SIG Member Survey - Spring 2025 (Due March 31, 2025) Please share your latest information on affiliations, promotions, publications, and awards. If you are interested in volunteering with the SLR SIG, please also indicate that below.

SLR SIG Members,
If you have not already done so, we invite you to participate in our Spring 2025 SLR SIG Member Survey!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

English ideologies in Korea Did you know that the US is referred to as “Beautiful Country” in Korean? Or that different ways of speaking English index different class positions? Or that English has become part of …

I loved recording this @languageonthemove.bsky.social episode with Dr. Jinhyun Cho about English ideologies in Korea. We discuss how ways of speaking English in Korea index different class positions and how English has become part of female beauty standards! www.languageonthemove.com/english-ideo...

New open access pub! Excited to share that our nationwide parent survey study is published in IJBEB! The study highlights the need to inform parents about the benefits of bilingualism and to address misconceptions about bilingual and dual language education. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excited 2 share our article led by @DrSab_Sembiante titled "Sustainable #translanguaging pedagogy in support of the vulnerable language: honoring children’s ways of ‘Showing’ and ‘Telling’ in early childhood #duallanguage #bilingualeducation"
Free eprint:

Delighted to share our policy paper titled "The viability of #bilingualeducation in #Nevada" in which we discuss the current context and provide recommendations for policymakers and districts: #CCSD #ELLs #bilingual #unlv

Beyond description: reconceptualizing the (trans)language(ing) among international students Although there have been numerous recent translanguaging studies, less research ventured into a more critical uptake of translanguaging beyond descriptive framing. This exploratory multiple-case st...

I am very excited to share my recent article, Beyond description: reconceptualizing the (trans)language(ing) among international students, in the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.
#translanguaging #bilingualeducation #sociolinguistics #internationalstudents #TESOL #ESL

(Re)negotiating Asian and Asian American identities in solidarity as language teacher educators: An AsianCrit discourse analysis The historical and contemporary experiences of Asian/Asian Americans in the United States casts light on the significance of identity negotiation and construction. In this study, the identities of As...

Delighted to share a new article titled, "(Re)negotiating Asian and Asian American identities in solidarity as language teacher educators: An AsianCrit discourse analysis", published in TESOL Journal.
🧵 Below
🌟 Free open-access here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Exploring EFL learners’ engagement and draft quality in a multi-stage expository writing task using model texts as a feedback facilitator: A mixed-methods study To enhance EFL learners’ engagement and writing, model texts as a feedback instrument (MTFI) have been used for the past two decades. This approach in…

Thrilled to share our latest article published in Journal of Second Language Writing (Elsevier)! Link to free access within 50 days:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#writing #feedback #modeltexts

over three years we worked closely with a group of English language high school teachers who were committed to anti-deficit practices for combatting language stigma and discrimination. this article documents their efforts and describes what became possible: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

SLA for All, a special issue of Language Learning is now available, with 6 examples of replication studies giving us lots of food for thought in terms SLA research, how we do it and what can be done to make it more inclusive & generalisable
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679922...

Phonetic and Phonological L1 Attrition and Drift in Bilingual Speech (Chapter 32) - The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology - November 2024

Congrats to Prof. @cbchang.bsky.social on his chapter w/ Dr. Esther de Leeuw in The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual #Phonetics & #Phonology! 🤩📖

"Phonetic and phonological L1 attrition and drift in bilingual speech" doi.org/10.1017/9781009105767.033

#Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social

Screenshot of article abstract

Highly recommend reading my friend Doris’s article. Feeling very timely… again. #EDUsky #BilingualEducation #DualLanguage

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Supporting the Learning of Chinese as a Second Language: Implications for Language Education Policy This book systematically reviews and analyses the policy of Chinese as a second language in the multilingual and multicultural contexts.

With Elizabeth Loh and Mark Shum from HK University also edited this volume on Chinese as a second language. We look at immigrant learners in HK and new learners of Chinese (ie not ‘background’ speakers) mainly in Australia; original research data and concepts.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The Role of English and Its Myths in the Emergence of First Language Dissociation among Some Japanese‐English Late Plurilinguals Linguistic distancing behaviours indicative of linguistic dissociation (Moore, 2023) have been documented in social scientific and literary accounts focusing on the lives of Japanese-English late plu....

Second article based on my doctoral research into linguistic dissociation is now open access in TESOL Quarterly 🥳✨ The Role of English and Its Myths in the Emergence of First Language Dissociation among Some Japanese-English Late Plurilinguals doi.org/10.1002/tesq...

The interpretation of verbal #moods in #Spanish: A close #replication of Kanwit and Geeslin (2014) by Aarnes Gudmestad et al. This will be part of the
SSLA special issue on replication in second #language research doi.org/10.1017/S027...

New open-access journal in applied lingustics/second language studies: Second Language Research & Practice

http://www.slrpjournal.org/

Hello new non-Twitter-but-kind-of-like-Twitter world. The main thing I've been doing recently is writing a book, which is finally coming out early 2025. More detail here: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

(PDF) The Interaction of Space, Place, and Linguistic Variation in Social Media PDF | The advent of the internet and social media should have provided social geographers new avenues in determining the relationship between offline... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

You can read my project launch poster here!

Santa Claus has cooome to toooown (with a new BLC paper) 🎶🎅 Wonderful collaboration with Tim Laméris and Brechtje Post and my first venture into tone processing and learning. L2 perception and word learning with a smidge of individual differences. What's not to like? Below's the link (OA)

Effects of word-level structure on oral stop realization in Hawaiian Hawaiian, or ‘Ōlelo Hawaiʻi, is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken on the islands of Hawaiʻi. This study examines oral stops in Hawaiian as produce…

This month, my work with ʻŌiwi Parker Jones on the stop consonants /p, k/ in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi for speakers from the 1970s-80s came out in Journal of Phonetics. I am honored to work with the Hawaiian community and grateful for the linguistic resources they have been meticulously maintaining.

🧠 Exciting News! Our latest paper in the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, delves into how speaking two, three, and four languages can transform the brain! Check these exciting results ⬇️

doi.org/10.1017/S136...

Self-evaluations and the language of the beholder: objective performance and language solidarity predict L2 and L1 self-evaluations in bilingual adults - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implication... People are often asked to self-evaluate their abilities, and these evaluations may not always reflect objective reality. Here, we investigated this issue for bilingual adults’ self-evaluations of lang...

Doing #bilingualism or #multilingualism research and wondering which lang background measure to use?

We examined if #language solidarity biased self-evaluation accuracy. doi.org/nrvz

Bottom line: %use self-evals were less biased than value-laden (how good am I?) self-evals.

%use wins, to us!

🔔📝My new paper on the experiences of students who dropped out of an English-medium university. #Bourdieu #EMI

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Arctic Indigenous Peoples’ languages — Indigenous Peoples' Secretariat

My #interestingread today:
Arctic Indigenous Peoples’ languages
www.arcticpeoples.com/sagastallami...
There is a great diversity of Arctic Indigenous Peoples’ languages, but historical and present-day marginalization has threatened many languages’ vitality.
#indigenous #languages #langsky

Jonathan Rosa and I had the amazing opportunity to work with an undergraduate student and a high school student to "translate" our "Undoing Appropriateness" article for high school students. The final product is available for free here:
demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/articles/lan...