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Verena Platzgummer

@verenaplatzgummer.bsky.social

Sociolinguist, Gaeilge learner, nature lover, Langschläferin

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Paul Finn & an Dr Verena Platzgummer ó Ollscoil na Gaillimhe. Paul Finn & an Dr Verena Platzgummer. Tá Ollscoil na Gaillimhe ag cuardú teaghlaigh Ghaeltachta a bhfuil roinnt teangachaí ar a dtoil acu, chomh maith le Gaeilge agus Béarla.

Can’t quite believe yet I actually did this today: Talked about our project on the experiences of multilingual families in the Gaeltacht on Raidió na Gaeltachta 😍 www.rte.ie/radio/rnag/c...

14.05.2025 20:43 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📢 BAAL RICH SIG is launching on 5 June 2025!

Submit your abstract by 30 April 👉 tinyurl.com/richsigabstr...

Register here 👉 tinyurl.com/richsigevent

Join the event & be part of the conversation!

#BAAL #RICHSIG

15.04.2025 17:40 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Tá a fhios agam 😠

31.03.2025 22:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Language and education policies across scales: policy processes in the institutional order of German-language ECEC in South Tyrol, Italy Despite a long tradition of ethnographic research on language and education policy processes, these have remained underexplored in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). This paper draws on a o...

📢 New publication!
Based on a year of ethnographic work in German-language ECEC in South Tyrol, I explore the institutional processes by which policy texts shape educators’ practices - and how this reinforces Standard German as the only language educational aim:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

19.03.2025 13:28 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Maith thú! ☺️

14.03.2025 07:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gratuliere Denis! Klingt super spannend!

06.03.2025 14:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Lovely read, Pádraic! Some of these I‘d noticed and wondered about, others I would not have thought of - like póg 😄

25.02.2025 22:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Critical Studies in Education Publishes works on the critical sociology of education, focusing on who benefits from social arrangements in education and resolving inequitable arrangements.

hey i am seeing lots of cool submissions to Critical Studies in Education recently but not too many about language and education so come on critical educational linguists, ping something in 🤗 www.tandfonline.com/journals/rcs...

12.02.2025 19:22 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Anybody else get startled by the new Duolingo lightning or is it just me? 😄 #schreckhaft

19.01.2025 21:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I‘d also love to be on there if it‘s no trouble!

29.11.2024 14:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Wer weiß ob das nicht ein neuer Trend wird! 😄

29.11.2024 13:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Join our new COST Action, PLURILINGMEDIA!

For 4 years, we’ll be running funded events and offering various grants!

Working Group applications now open. Covering all aspects of media in minority/regional languages. Please share to interested scholars/practitioners.

🔗 www.cost.eu/actions/CA23...

21.11.2024 13:49 — 👍 11    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 2
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Our Guest Speakers: Prof. Lynne Bowker - Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice In this third edition of the CALM seminars for this academic year and in collaboration with the Emily Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice, Professor Lynne Bowker (Université Laval, C...

Delighted to host Prof Lynne Bowker @bowkerl.bsky.social at the University of Galway’s Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice with a talk on multilingual scholarly communication! translation.universityofgalway.ie/lynne_bowker/ Tuesday, Nov 26, from 4 PM in AMB-G067.

20.11.2024 11:41 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

I‘d be happy to be added ☺️ Go raibh maith agat ☺️

18.11.2024 09:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ba bhreá liom sin! ☺️

15.11.2024 14:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh great! Feel free to add me ☺️

15.11.2024 13:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Es gibt ja schon welche mit Glasur, die dann außen weiß oder rosa sind. Innen immer noch braun - könnte eine gute Metapher abgeben 😄

15.11.2024 09:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks ❤️ and of course I will!

21.10.2024 12:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also wenn du das ganze Symposium meinst, dann geht es bei euch um 17 Uhr MEZ los 😄

21.10.2024 10:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Family Language Policy Conference About In their 2008 paper, King et al. laid the foundation for the emergence of the field that came to be recognised as Family Language Policy (FLP). Since then, this field of inquiry has received an ...

Tomorrow we‘ll be kicking off our hybrid conference on family language policy in Galway. 🎉 I‘m excited and slightly terrified by our amazing programme! 😱 Registration for virtual attendance is still possible today, in case you‘re interested: universityofgalwaymooreinst.clr.events/event/136278

21.10.2024 09:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

Great! Maybe i should check if galway has a tool, too! What did yours do with the switches you found? Whisper just translated mine into the main language 😱

24.07.2024 10:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Family Language Policy Conference

One week left to submit an abstract for our Family Language Policy Conference on October 22-23! 🗓️ It will be fully hybrid, so I am looking forward to welcome colleagues in Galway and on Zoom! ❤️ More info here: tinyurl.com/5y8wdku4

24.07.2024 10:31 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

I wanted to ask the same! I have been experimenting with whisper ☺️

24.07.2024 10:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh wie toll, Judith! Ich melde natürlich auch schon mal mein Interesse an! ☺️

19.07.2024 11:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Perfektes Timing für meine lange Busfahrt heute!

03.05.2024 12:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ich glaube das ist einfach der Weihnachtsplätzchenspirit. Kokosbusserln müssen her!

08.12.2023 15:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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