Huy Phung

The recording is now available so that you can confirm that I indeed have a German accent and color-match my outfits with my Zoom background.

youtu.be/YL0co26ng-g?...

AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.

Just throwing AI at education doesn't seem to work. "<thing>, but with AI" is in policy and attracting investments everywhere these days. I hope other countries can learn from Korea's unfortunate experience.

restofworld.org/2025/south-k...

Causal inference interest group, supported by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies Seminar series 20th October 2025, 3pm BST (UTC+1) "Making rigorous causal inference more mainstream" Julia Rohrer, Leipzig University Sign up to attend at tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRohrer

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈

You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

Reading Circle = Literature x TBLT

Looks like my favorite paper on the age trajectory of happiness is finally out!!! So happy for the authors. Go check it out, it’s great.

Assistant Professor (Second Language Corpus Linguistics) Title: Assistant Professor (Second Language Corpus Linguistics)Hiring Unit: College of Arts, Languages & Letters/Department of Second Language StudiesLocation: University of Hawaii at ManoaDate Posted...

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My department (Second Language Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) is hiring a corpus linguist who conducts research on second languages. Great place to teach (2/2 load) and do research! See link for more details:

go.hawaii.edu/mGc

Why science needs outsiders - Works in Progress Magazine Science has forgotten that the greatest breakthroughs often come from outsiders who are able to take a fresh perspective.

Fun article about “outsider” scientists and their breakthroughs.

“Academia filters most funding, publishing, and hiring decisions through senior insiders, which favors ideas within existing paradigms.”

worksinprogress.co/issue/why-sc...

A reminder that abstracts for the hybrid symposium on the quantitative/qualitative divide in applied linguistics are due August 30. corpus.cal.msu.edu/1052-2/

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A bivariate change model with structured residuals

A hierarchical model of cognitive abilities

Now on CRAN, ggdiagram is a #ggplot2 extension that draws diagrams programmatically in #Rstats. Allows for precise control in how objects, labels, and equations are placed in relation to each other.
wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/ar...

World Englishes, heterodoxy, and applied linguistics It is understandable that many people find it challenging to adopt a positive moral position with regard to English and its role in the world. The language is used in many contexts and situations to ...

I'm enjoying this new article by Christopher Jenks that highlights some positives of English as a global language.

One neat thread Jenks discusses is the role of English in the spread of the Korean Wave. I'd add that Korean-American KOR/ENG bilinguals have played a huge role in K-pop's spread

New paper: Comparing #lab-based and #remote data collection methods in second #language acquisition research. A close #replication study (McManus et al., in Research Methods in Applied #Linguistics) authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYuB9sT3h... #langsky #lingsky #researchmethods #online

Please consider submitting a proposal to our hybrid symposium in October on the quant/qual divide in applied linguistics.
corpus.cal.msu.edu/1052-2/

A Text-Driven TBLT Approach to Materials Development go.viettblt.com/hitomi

The washback effect: How tests shape the way we study English New research explores what test prep looks like around the world—and how thoughtful test design can support meaningful learning.

Over the last year, I've been investigating Duolingo English Test preparation and washback with a multilingual team of researchers at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. This guest blog post on DET's Test Center blog shares some of our findings and general advice for test takers.

This workshop series explores the intersection of theory and practice in Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT), with a special focus on materials development as a space for productive and meaningful knowledge exchange.

A computational analysis of lexical elaboration across languages | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Home Use RMarkdown to generate PDF Conference Posters via HTML - brentthorne/posterdown

"Of course there's an R package to make academic posters in Markdown". *chuckles, shakes head* #rstats github.com/brentthorne/...

Jasp textbook site is now live: discoverjasp.com. @sagepub.com

Starting #tblt2025 conference with Marta Gonzalez-Lloret and our talk on the effects of collaborative gaming in WTC and task engagement - ending the talk with a shout out to #CALICO2025 in San Diego 🌴☀️👩🏻‍💻
calico.org/calico-2025/

We can’t wait to see you at the 2025 CALICO conference this May!
🕊️Register by April 25 to get the early bird rate
🏨 Hotel rooms are filling fast—book ASAP! On-campus dorms are also available.
📅Check out the preliminary agenda & lodging details here: calico.org/calico-2025/. See you in San Diego!

See lakens.github.io/statistical_...

Mount Laguna

How do you use social media to embiggen your work?

A #LingComm25 panel discussion with
Ingrid Piller @languageonthemove.bsky.social
Danny Hieber @linguisticdiscovery.com
Jana Viscardi @janaviscardi.bsky.social
Daniel Midgley @becauselanguage.com

Register now!

www.eventbrite.com/e/the-intern...

Languages matter: global guidance on multilingual education www.unesco.org/en/ar...

Amazing teacher meeting in San Diego! So happy to hear it was well received. It’s so rewarding to see educators excited about these concepts!

Bridging research-practice gap in action

Helping teachers learn what works in the classroom − and what doesn’t − will get a lot harder without the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences The nonpartisan arm of the Education Department supports research and shares data on student progress. It identifies what works and what doesn’t.

The Institute of Education Sciences, which identifies what works in education, may be on #DOGE’s chopping block. Its $1B budget is less than 1% of the Dept. of Education's, but it’s vital for efforts to pursue research-based improvements, educational researchers explain. https://buff.ly/42Yvcae

A Handbook for Exploratory Action Research - bit.ly/handbook-EAR - for teachers in challenging situations

A new investigation from The Conversation and @retractionwatch.com sheds light on a troubling phenomenon: Fake research papers are contaminating scientific literature at an alarming rate, with hundreds of thousands of bogus studies circulating.