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How Can Emotions Be Used as Tools for Personal and Professional Development? This month we are publishing Teacher Emotions as Personal and Professional Development in Applied Linguistics edited by Mohammad N. Karimi, Luis Javier Pentón Herrera and Behzad Mansouri. In this p…

"Moving beyond the simplistic labels of “positive” and “negative” emotions, we argue for a nuanced understanding of emotions as complex, socially constructed, and deeply embedded in contexts of power, identity, and social justice..."

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"Sarah Benesch has once again written a path-breaking book. This timely volume challenges us to critically examine deep-seated assumptions embodied in the discourses that shape how we think and talk about women's reproductive destinies."

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Dynamics of L2 Sociolinguistic Development in Adulthood This book explores the development of sociolinguistic competence among adult second language learners, considering productive and interpretive skills. Combining results from a cross-sectional and long...

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"...this volume offers new and exciting insights, approaches, and methods at every turn. It dazzles in its specificities and details, yet it never loses sight of the big picture: the central role language plays in our social lives." buff.ly/zi9X4R5

Many tongues, one people: the debate over linguistic diversity in India There are thousands of languages and dialects spoken in India, but most children learn three: the local tongue, Hindi and English.

Many tongues, one people: the debate over linguistic diversity in India

‘Vicious cycle’ of language degree cuts and declining enrolments Universities encouraged to offer language degrees to students with no prior experience as low uptake in schools creates pipeline problems

‘Vicious cycle’ of language degree cuts and declining enrolments

Behind the Books: Lessons from a Dual Language Bilingual School Tatyana Kleyn, Victoria Hunt, Alcira Jaar, Rebeca Madrigal and Consuelo Villegas talk about their book Lessons from a Dual Language Bilingual School. The book is available on our website:…

The editors of "Lessons from a Dual Language Bilingual School" show you around Dos Puentes Elementary, the school on which their book is based.

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This month we're publishing "A Handbook of Integration with Refugees" edited by @esaldegheri.bsky.social, @dx-fisher.bsky.social and @alisonphipps.bsky.social.

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Manx Gaelic Girlguiding badge to 'bring love for language' The new badge encourages girl guides and scouts to connect with their cultural heritage.

Manx Gaelic Girlguiding badge to 'bring love for language'

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The European Accessibility Act and Us For the past 18 months we have been working to make our content accessible ahead of the European Accessibility Act coming into effect. In this post Tommi explains what this has involved and why it&…

The European Accessibility Act and Us

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How can students develop AI literacy skills?

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Why Revisit Communication Ideology in Japan? This month we published Ideologies of Communication in Japan edited by Patrick Heinrich, Florian Grosser and Saana Santalahti. In this post the editors explain how ideologies of communication in Ja…

What does it take to be recognised as a Japanese-speaking member of society in contemporary Japan?

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Our book "The Thesis Writing Journeys of Bachelor’s and Master’s Students: A Transnational European Perspective" edited by Bojana Petric and Montserrat Castelló has won the Best WAC Edited Collection award!

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"...an excellent collection of contributions that show how reflexive projections span, and interrelate among, multiple semiotic modes, genres, and communicative practices." buff.ly/5SPwxb5

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"Wirtz pushes the boundaries of existing knowledge on the development of sociolinguistic competence by employing innovative new methods and test batteries rarely applied in Variationist SLA." buff.ly/zi9X4R5

Justice Maya’s support for African languages in South Africa’s courts is a positive sign It is important to embrace all the nation’s languages in a multilingual and multicultural society. This will ensure they are used, developed and mainstreamed.

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A Handbook of Integration with Refugees This book brings together the voices of academics, practitioners, and people seeking sanctuary to explore the processes of refugee integration. Situated in learnings from Scotland, the book offers the...

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"An incisive and elegant collection! A beautifully crafted story reminding us how restorative praxis, connection, and justice keep us human in regressive times."

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Language Learning in Bi-dialectal Communities This month we published Dynamics of L2 Sociolinguistic Development in Adulthood by Mason A. Wirtz. In this post the author explains the challenges and importance of learning additional languages in…

"...acquiring an additional language entails not only vocabulary or grammatical competence – language is inherently a social phenomenon, and by extension it carries a range of social nuances which must be acquired in order to communicate effectively."

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New book builds a space in which a diversity of voices – Indigenous teachers, activists and committed academics – are foregrounded in the processes of Indigenous education with the goal of Indigenous language reclamation. buff.ly/W9JYY5S

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Indigenous Language Education in Critical Times
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Empowering Children’s Multilingual Development We recently published Children’s Additional Language Learning in Instructional Settings by Yuko Goto Butler. In this post the author explains what inspired the book.  If you look around, you …

"This widespread enthusiasm for introducing additional languages to young learners is often driven by a set of common assumptions held by both parents and educators [...] such as: “children acquire languages implicitly and effortlessly...”

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New book presents case studies of ideologies of communication in Japan which respond to recent epistemological and methodological developments in the field and reflect the subject-wide shift from ideologies of language to ideologies of communication. buff.ly/5SPwxb5

Qianqian Zhang-Wu and Bridget Goodman - Book Launch and Author Talk This is the recording of a book launch and author talk for Qianqian Zhang-Wu and Bridget Goodman's recent book Autoethnographic Explorations of Lived Racioli...

Check out this recording of the launch of Qianqian Zhang-Wu and Bridget Goodman's recently-published book "Autoethnographic Explorations of Lived Raciolinguistic Experiences Among Multilingual Scholars".

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