New Cambridge Element Generative Artificial Intelligence and Language Teaching by Benjamin Luke Moorhouse and Kevin M. Wong is now free to read for 2 weeks!
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New Cambridge Element Generative Artificial Intelligence and Language Teaching by Benjamin Luke Moorhouse and Kevin M. Wong is now free to read for 2 weeks!
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#cambridgeelements #languageandlinguistics
7. “The most powerful outcomes are delayed. Trust the process.”
8. “A habit must be established before it can be improved.”
9. “Motion feels like progress, but it’s action that changes your life.”
10. “If you want results that last, build habits that stick.”
(Based on Clear’s Atomic Habits)
4. “Small changes often make no difference until they make all the difference.”
5. “Mastery is the process of patiently showing up when it’s hard, boring, and slow.”
6. “Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.”
Habit Formation & Consistency
1. “Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.”
2. “You don’t rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
3. “Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.”
www.dawn.com/news/1916448 WHILE the literacy rate in Pakistan hovers around 68 per cent, an alarming 77pc of school-going children cannot read fluently by the end of primary school.
12.06.2025 03:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Excited to share the next session in the APA Division 15 Public Scholarship Series with you. I will be moderating this timely conversation hosted by the Div 15 Early Career Educational Psychologists (ECEP) Committee.
30.05.2025 19:04 — 👍 17 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0Picture of the paper title
What a treat to teach a class on language and sci-fi in my pop culture class today 🚀👨🚀🌌🖖 we read @catlaliberte.bsky.social @dianawengl.bsky.social and Melanie Keller's fantastic article on the sociolinguistics of Firefly and I got to show a lot of clips demonstrating code-switching in the series 🤓
28.05.2025 10:19 — 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 1Data-Driven Learning (DDL) can be broadly defined as the use of corpus tools and techniques for learners and teachers of foreign or second language, typically in the form of concordances derived from authentic texts for inductive learning of lexicogrammar. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
24.05.2025 18:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The big idea: could the English language die?
For the time being it’s dominant – but as the Romans could tell you, nothing lasts for ever
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
via @theguardian.com
<It won't die, but change more rapidly than other languages, resulting in many variants>
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Whose English does AI speak? Most generative AI is trained on American English – but that’s not what most of the world speaks. My new post explores how this shapes our digital experience and why linguistic diversity in AI matters.
🔗 www.nevillehobson.io/whose-englis...
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We're recruiting a new Research Assistant to work alongside @drniccimacleod.bsky.social on her project Talking Rape: Operation Soteria and the Police Interview, funded by a Leverhulme Fellowship 👇
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Word of the week: Crisis-tunity, aka crisitunity, aka crisatunity. | ht @benzimmer.bsky.social @heidiharley.bsky.social and "The Simpsons." fritinancy.substack.com/p/word-of-th...
12.05.2025 13:35 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Linguists Find Proof of Sweeping Language Pattern Once Deemed a ‘Hoax’
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ling...
Piers Morgan’s silly book
“I’d rather be woke than an ignorant f***ing twat” Kathy Burke
05.05.2025 22:26 — 👍 5772 🔁 476 💬 639 📌 92Which famous figure is considering avoiding America? | Fiona Katauskas
18.04.2025 15:03 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Wombats, wallabies and whales: four days walking in Wilsons Promontory national park
18.04.2025 15:03 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1The increase in the population of yellow-vented bulbuls (Pycnonotus goiavier) in urban areas can indeed indicate environmental changes, including factors related to climate, although it primarily reflects broader ecological transformations rather than climate change alone.
04.04.2025 12:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Archers star Charles Collingwood: ‘The last lie I told? Darling, marvellous isn’t the word’
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