Fiona Farr

US president Donald Trump. He is looking upwards and has his hand raised in the air. He is wearing a white shirt and blue blazer. He is wearing a white baseball cap that has the American flag on one side and USA emblazoned on the front. There is also an American flag pin on his blazer.

"Trump’s approach to trade, shaped by his hubris, poor grasp of policy tools & distrustful nature, has left trade partners wary & US industries in turmoil"

UL's Dr Scott Fitzsimmons analyses the aspects of Trump's personality that have led to tariff threats & trade wars

www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

The living bridge on the UL campus. The River Shannon flows under the bridge and there are trees full of green leaves in the background. There are people walking across the bridge and a person cycling. The sun is shining and the sky is blue.

UL researcher, Dr Sarah Schaefer, has been awarded more than €600,000 through the Research Ireland Pathway Programme to investigate how media outlets can develop new ways to report issues of climate change to the public.

Read on: www.ul.ie/research/new...

#StudyAtUL #StayCurious

Forms of becoming: elementary students’ self-positioning in writing This paper investigates 15 elementary aged children’s self-positioning in writing. To this purpose, we examine how children perceive and represent themselves through their engagement with writing r...

New article out in Classroom Discourse!: "Forms of becoming: elementary students’ self-positioning in writing" (by Maryam Khosronejad, Mary Ryan & Lauren Alexandra Weber). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fantastic achievement, Sarah! Well done! And such important work for the future of our planet!

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UL-led European alliance ‘to build a more connected and inclusive future through education’

Hear from Acting UL President Professor Shane Kilcommins, speaking at the launch of the EMERGE European University Alliance
www.ul.ie/news/ul-led-...
#StudyatUL

Delighted to announce that the Limerick Corpus of Irish English is now available on Sketch Engine!

Speaking about plurilingualism at the EMERGE University Alliance launch. @unioflimerick.bsky.social @calsul.bsky.social

Delighted to be at the launch of the EMERGE project and alliance, with a strong focus on linguistic diversity.

Achieving Joint Attention and Understanding of Task Responsibilities in Synchronous Hybrid L2 Classroom Group Work Abstract. This article addresses the need to better understand interactional asymmetries, challenges, and solutions in implementing synchronous hybrid lang

Our article (w/ Teppo Jakonen & Heidi Jauni ) on joint attention in #hybrid L2 #classroom group work has now been assigned to an issue in Applied Linguistics: academic.oup.com/applij/artic...

Annual CALS research day underway with Dr Laura Keyes from the Centre for Implementation Research @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Renata Trunen from Inland Norway University presenting at our CALS Day. @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Our very own CALS colleagues, Dr Brona Murphy and Dr Elaine Riordan presenting their research on doctoral intelligences.

PhD student Nadia Youcefi presenting her research on EAP at the CALS Research Day.

Marta Fortes talking about virtual exchanges for LSP

Partnering with AI in teacher education? Using an automatic question detection tool to reflect on classroom interaction In this paper, I investigate a group of student-teachers’ insights into an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered automatic question-detection tool designed for reflective practice: Question Bot (QBo...

It has been eye opening for me to listen to the perspectives of student-teachers on their use of an AI tool for #reflective #practice: Partnering with #AI in #teacher #education? Using an automatic question detection tool to reflect on #classroom #interaction: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Repairing problems of acceptability in pre-task interaction In task-based language teaching methodology, one way to familiarise learners with the upcoming task is through question-and-answer sequences that target task-relevant topics. In such instances, lea...

New article out! Repairing problems of acceptability in pre-task interaction (by David Shimamoto, Kobe University, Japan) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted to be at our first EMERGE project meeting in Paris! Lots of energy in the room. @calsul.bsky.social @ul-gps.bsky.social

Delighted to be presenting a keynote talk at the joint NAES and EFACIS conference in Turku, Finland next week. Now, back to writing it!

EuroCALL 2025 - Milano Università Cattolica | 27-30 August 2025

🎤 Announcing our next #eurocall2025 plenary speaker: Marina Orsini-Jones!
A pioneer in CALL, VE, and multilingual education, she brings decades of expertise in digital learning and global collaboration.
⏳ Submit your paper by 17th February: eurocall2025.com
📍 Join us in Milan!

#eurocall #CALL

the cover of the Cambridge Element titled Clinical Communication

Don’t miss your chance to read the new Cambridge Element Clinical Communication by Peter Salmon

cup.org/3EpJZ3f

Free access available until 19 February

#cambridgeelements #languageandlinguistics

Upcoming dates for online #CPD courses:

English Grammar for Teachers
🗓️ 7 February
Teaching English Grammar in Context
🗓️ 28 February

🔗Booking & more dates through 2025:

www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usag...

#NQT #ECT #PGCE #Literacy #Grammar

(PDF) What if we want to test for similarities between groups, rather than differences? Equivalence testing techniques for corpus linguistics PDF | Tests in the null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) framework are designed to identify differences between groups. Thus, researchers wishing... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

Most of our commonly used statistical techniques in CL only help us identify differences between groups. But what if we instead want to empirically test whether two groups are similar/practically equivalent?

Just out:

Larsson & Hancock (forthcoming)
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Delighted to see this in print, and grateful to be in the company of such great authors. Thanks to Anne and Kenan for bringing this all together.

A systematic review of research on AI in language education: Current status and future implications https://buff.ly/4hA3Vi7

We started working on this back in 2017 when I was at Lancaster - so happy it’s finally out ✨ shorturl.at/fWLGe #phonetics #forensicphonetics #sociolinguistics

Meet our first #eurocall2025 plenary speaker: Pierfranca Forchini! An expert in corpus linguistics, movie language, and language varieties, she brings unique insights into spoken discourse. Submit your paper by 3rd February: eurocall2025.com
#eurocall #ELT #languages #appliedlinguistics

Research Fellow (110119-0125) at University of Warwick An academic position as a Research Fellow (110119-0125) is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

Two year research fellowship available at Warwick looking at GenAI and academic writing: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ037/r...

Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR) This conference, to be held on 7 and 8 July 2025 in Louvain-la-Neuve, will mark the closing of the Hoover Seedfund project on "Learner Corpus Research and Register Variation", a collaborative initiati...

Deadline extension: Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025: Final deadline 31 January 2024. Conference website: uclouvain.be/en/research-...

Lecturer in Linguistics at Newcastle University Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in Linguistics. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

Fixed term teaching position in Linguistics at Newcastle University: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLM052/l...

We're hosting a conference in Conversation Analysis in July, aimed at PhD researchers. The call for abstracts is out now. The invited speakers are Paul Drew and Lorenza Mondada. Info below!