Philip Montgomery

If we focus on social action, language policy is the discourse management of people.

Highly recommend reading "Language Policy in Action" by
@kristofsavski.bsky.social

Read my full review here: rdcu.be/eHSQa

Thanks to
@bonacina-pugh.bsky.social
and the team at LP @springernature.com

Critical peer mentoring: Aligning values and practice as professional development Critical peer mentoring grounded in the concepts of radical praxis, writing centre practitioner (WCP) identity, and ideological becoming can be a transformative practice. Utilising collaborative au...

🚨 New publication on critical peer mentoring in higher ed:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🤓 2 year collaborative autoethnography + three constructs: identity, radical praxis, and ideological becoming

🌏 Result: a model that can scaffold faculty development workshops or peer mentoring programs

Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics Volume 48 Issue 1 Volume 48, issue 1 of the journal Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics was published in 2025.

Part of a Special Issue on CLIL PD and international collaborations: www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...

(PDF) Forging CLIL Teacher Identities in Kazakhstan: Developmental Pathways of Two University Teachers PDF | As universities in Kazakhstan continue to address the challenges that come with developing English-medium instruction (EMI) programs, university... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

"I'm not a specialist in science"
"I'm not an English teacher"
What does it take to become a #CLIL teacher in Kazakhstan? We found that English teachers and content subject teachers take very different paths. Implications for STEM, EMI and CLIL teacher training more broadly.
bit.ly/CLILidentities

The Macarena came on the radio and I was surprised to know my 5-yo already knows the moves. “Come on Papa, everyone knows the Macaroni Song!” 🙄 🤣

Oh my

(PDF) "I Just Opened My Heart": Challenges and Contradictions in Multilingual EMI Teacher Identity Construction PDF | This study reports on a qualitative study of one higher education teacher at a rural technical university in Kazakhstan. The focal participant,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

Happy to share a book chapter, and perhaps my favorite solo-authored piece to date. 🤓

What benefits, challenges, and identity construction processes do Kazakhstani multilingual teachers experience? 🌏🤨

What language ideologies are enacted in our research? 🤔
bit.ly/criticalEMI

Trump’s Executive Order on “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools is premised on some strange logic. I understand ideologies as dynamic, contested, assemblages of values. How can they be “false”?

No, I’ll have to check it out! I’m missing Beliy Medved Nefiltrovanoe. Any idea why they disappeared from stores?

Challenge accepted 😝

I learned today that 39 is not too old to go sledding. It is, however, too old to go sledding and not need ibuprofen afterwards 🤦‍♂️

Eight steps to launch a student-led peer-review journal To help PhD students gain the skills required for publication and improve research literacy, consider an in-house academic journal

Teaching graduate students about research literacy?

How about creating opportunities to participate in research communities?

www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/eight...

A painting of a wide-eyed tuxedo cat holding an orange coffee mug filled with coffee. The caption reads “Maybe this will be the coffee that finally fixes me”

My 11yo just asked me why I’m having coffee again.

Textbook example of how language ideologies are reinforced or challenged in hundreds of everyday interactions.

Writing tip: After you finish, go back & cut all the adverbs. Then all the adjectives. Then all the other words. Eat the paper. Now you're free.

Resharing this starter pack with some new additions. Still happy to add more folks!

go.bsky.app/Yv8eX9

I’ve done portfolio grading in middle and high school classrooms. This semester I’m trying it out with graduate students. Lots of choice and chances for creativity.

So much academic writing advice is just “false promises and cheap tricks” - novice writers deserve better, as @patthomson.bsky.social reminds us

Same boat, 100%. And they are masters students, so I have to quiet the voice that says quantity = challenge.

And the critical educational linguist might add that the label “the real world” is always up for grabs, that teaching students to celebrate and leverage linguistic diversity is in fact preparing them for a linguistically heterogenous future, in turn helping preserve the value of that heterogeneity

5 yo: what are you listening to?
Mom: it’s work stuff
5 yo: what are they talking about?
Mom: contingencies of reinforcement
5 yo: Oh, they’re speaking Russian??
😂

a man with white hair is wearing a purple shirt and looking to the side . Alt: a man with white hair is wearing a purple shirt and shaking his head

Most rewarding part of teaching! And just think, so many teachers don’t ask for that feedback!

a man in a denim jacket holds a bouquet of flowers in front of a plastic bag that says in a few Alt: a man in a denim jacket rolling up his sleeves

Opened a new document today to start drafting my first journal article from my dissertation!

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Yikes!

Love this!

Very timely! I’ve got a student who needs a succinct overview of NI and this is just the ticket!

Reading Wars and “The Science of Reading” Teaching children to read through the decades

Also, I should say I’m not against some more digestible genres, like periodicals. medium.com/readwithsimb...

Great recommendation. Do you have a specific reading that comes to mind? I’m trying to balance shorter handbook-type chapters which give succinct overviews of an issue with more contextualized empirical studies.

a baby is reading a book with his eyes closed while sitting at a table . ALT: a baby is reading a book with his eyes closed while sitting at a table .

📢 Request 📢
Designing a course for graduate students called Language and Literacy Development.

MA in Multilingual Education.

What HAS to be on that syllabus?

Also, help me diversify readings outside of western contexts!
#literacies #edusky