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Karen Ashton

@karenashton.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Applied Linguistics: Teacher agency, Language education, policy, curriculum, assessment. Forensic Linguistics. ❤️☕ Applied Linguistics in Aotearoa New Zealand Executive.

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Awesome list - thank you! If you are still upadting, could I be added please?

13.08.2025 02:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Teacher positioning of their practice for linguistically and culturally diverse learners This article draws on open-response survey data (n = 86) to qualitatively explore New Zealand language teachers’ positioning of their pedagogical practice for linguistically and culturally diverse ...

Hot off the press! Pleased to share that this article with
@qiyuegrace.bsky.social is now available online (and open access!).
'Teacher positioning of their practice for linguistically and culturally diverse learners'
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

06.06.2025 04:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 3
Best PhD Thesis 2024: Dana Taylor
YouTube video by ALANZ Applied Linguistics Association of NZ Best PhD Thesis 2024: Dana Taylor

Very delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 ALANZ Best PhD Thesis Competition, Dr Dana Taylor, whose thesis is entitled: Professional identity positioning of internationally qualified nurses during workplace interactions with colleagues in New Zealand healthcare settings. youtu.be/zzTXOxtD4F8

21.05.2025 22:49 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Teaching English in Schools to Speakers of Other Languages scholarships The Teaching English in Schools to Speakers of Other Languages (TESSOL) scholarship supports study for employed teachers.

Ministry of Education (NZ) TESSOL scholarships now open for 2025 study! www.education.govt.nz/education-pr...

11.12.2024 02:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Anne Salmond: Govt de-funding the mind Comment: The Government's decision to cut humanities and social science research from its major funding stream is both bad policy and scientifically illiterate, writes Dame Anne Salmond

newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/05/a...

04.12.2024 21:21 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Fabulous to meet you there in person - do stay in touch! :)

03.12.2024 19:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Congratulations Grace :)

15.11.2024 22:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Becoming and being language teacher educators: a collaborative reflexive account In this study we employed reflexivity as a typology and a means to foster our own becoming and being as language teacher educators (LTEs). Specifically, drawing on reflexivity as mutual collaborati...

Publication day!
Our coauthored paper, Becoming and being language teacher educators: a collaborative reflexive account, is out!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

15.11.2024 08:14 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0

Pleased to see this now out online: 'Continuing Professional Development for Teaching English as an Additional Language in New Zealand Primary Schools' link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

28.11.2023 00:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lots of fun at our Applied Linguistics conference #ALANZ2023 in Auckland over the weekend- our students enjoyed the symposium - for some of them their first time presenting their PhD research 😀

26.11.2023 20:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pre-service teachers’ belief changes in an English for specific purposes teacher education context While pre-service teachers’ beliefs about different dimensions of English language teaching have been widely researched, little is known about their b…

Pleased to see this now out online 'Pre-service teachers’ belief changes in an English for specific purposes teacher education context'. Particular thanks and congrats to Van Anh :)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

08.11.2023 22:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Finally made it over to blue sky - thank you @beckeleven.bsky.social 😺😽

20.10.2023 19:12 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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