Niall Curry

Pleased to be awarded a @britishacademy.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant with @livunienglish.bsky.social colleague David Oakey for research using corpus linguistics to analyse phraseology/imagery/effectiveness of type 2 diabetes public health messaging. 👉 share.google/cByi9qS690yG...

Future of AI in research to be explored in groundbreaking study Implications for how public bodies use generative AI in social sciences research

The way Government funding bodies use AI will be investigated in a two-year study led by linguistics researcher Dr Niall Curry.

The project will explore how AI is changing social sciences research and its ethical and socioeconomic implications.

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📢 Registration is open for the Language Testing Forum 2025.
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Join us in celebrating the 45th anniversary of the LTF and the 10th anniversary of the UKALTA! #LTF2025
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Thanks so much, Duygu! 😃

I'm honoured to have been appointed to the Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) new assessor college. Looking forward to continuing to contribute to the council's important work in this new role! @ukri.org @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

You too, Danny! Your topic on epistemic trespassing looks super interesting and is so important! Exciting times ahead I think! 😁

Thanks so much, Kat! 😀

Thanks so much, Viola! I feel the same way!

Thanks, Helen! 🥳

Thanks, Tony! 😃

Future of AI in research to be explored in groundbreaking study Implications for how public bodies use generative AI in social sciences research

If you want to know more about what I'll be doing, you can find a summary here: www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve.... And I'll be posting project updates here: niallcurry.com/genai-in-the...

Some exciting news ⤵️ to share: I have been awarded a UKRI Metascience AI Fellowship! This will enable me to spend the next few years working with research councils & policymakers to develop disciplinary guidelines & policy on responsible AI use in Social Science research. @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

Integrating critical corpus and AI literacies in applied linguistics: a mixed-methods study This study examines the integration of corpus literacy and critical AI literacy in language education. As part of a sequential mixed-methods design, undergraduate learners from a southern European ...

Specifically, these findings underscore the value that corpus approaches bring to language learning and the need for explicit training in AI tools used in autonomous language learning. You can read more here: doi.org/10.1080/0958...

Overall, we argue that developing corpus literacies can act as a means of developing critical AI literacies, and that this in itself can enhance language learning for learners who choose to use AI.

We raise questions on the role of the product and the process in language learning, the differences between perceived personalised learning and its relationship with individualised learning, and the value of critical questions surrounding technology use for language learning.

We also found that the generative AI tools, while popular, present challenges related to over-reliance and a lack of truly personalised learning.

Conversely, we found that while ChatGPT was widely used by the learners, ultimately it elicited mixed evaluations regarding reliability. The overall findings suggest a few things, including that corpus literacy fosters critical engagement with language data.

Broadly, we wanted to study how undergraduate learners from a southern European university engage with corpus and AI tools and we found that while learners initially lacked familiarity with corpus tools, they came to recognise their value in developing corpus-mediated linguistic awareness.

This study was conducted to examine the potential for the integration of corpus and AI literacies in language education and we used a sequential mixed-methods design, incorporating training days, workshops, task outputs, and focus groups as data.

Integrating critical corpus and AI literacies in applied linguistics: a mixed-methods study This study examines the integration of corpus literacy and critical AI literacy in language education. As part of a sequential mixed-methods design, undergraduate learners from a southern European ...

New OA 🔓 paper with @perez-paredes.bsky.social & @paguado.bsky.social in Computer Assisted Language Learning @tandfresearch.bsky.social. Read, 'Integrating critical corpus and AI literacies in applied linguistics: A mixed-methods study' here: doi.org/10.1080/0958... & see 🧵 below for some details ⬇️

www.cambridge.org/core/journal... For people interested in the links between AL and AI.

Happy to share that the Academic Spoken Word List (Dang, Coxhead & Webb, 2017) is now on Lextutor for lexical profiling! 🎉 Check % of academic spoken words in texts here: www.lextutor.ca/vp/comp/. Huge thanks to Tom Cob! Please explore & share!

Honoured to give a keynote at the Data, Gender and Society summer school at @dhssfau.bsky.social this morning. Thanks so much for the invitation, and great audience engagement! @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

Details on conference call for papers, available at the link.

Details on conference call for papers, available at the link.

One for the calendars 📅 #IVACS2026 will take place in Malta, July 1-3 2026! I'm honoured to be among the plenary speakers. More details on the conference and call for papers here: www.um.edu.mt/events/ivacs...

new article published open access in Reading Research Quarterly 💫

Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept
doi.org/10.1002/rrq....

i trace how deficit ideologies associated with the 'word gap' get reproduced - and rejected - in teacher education and schools.

Had a nice opportunity today to reflect on all the brilliant linguistic research taking place at @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social over the last year or so! So many exciting things ahead and in store! @manmetuni.bsky.social

A systematic approach to identifying communication-related challenges that should be addressed by policymakers of the host country to reduce the vulnerability of refugees

Like many other ECRs out there I'm currently looking for a job. If anyone is looking for an RA in linguistics, archival research, palaeography, textual editing etc, please let me know!

***RESEARCH PAPER OUT NOW***

“I agree with this”: A multi-modal register analysis of lexical bundles in the ICNALE by Trevor Sitler (Kansai University) and Martin Spivey (Akita University)

icr.or.kr/apjcr_2025_6...

#learnercorpus #corpuslinguistics #JapanEFL #ICNALE

Thanks so much Anna, so glad you like it!