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@cemcan.bsky.social

/dʒɛm dʒæn/ - Professor of Linguistics, President of LIF Conference, Traveller, Linguist, EFL/ESL Specialist, Digital Native, Mac user

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Generative Artificial Intelligence and Language Teaching Cambridge Core - Teacher training and professional development - Generative Artificial Intelligence and Language Teaching

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!
cup.org/4ldHHEM
#cambridgeelements #languageandlinguistics

29.06.2025 15:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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)

19.06.2025 16:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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.”

19.06.2025 16:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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.”

19.06.2025 16:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Language debate Immersion is important to equip students in language skills.

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    📌 0
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Excited 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    📌 0
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Does ‘free speech’ even exist? Alan and Lionel are joined by historian Fara Dabhoiwala to discuss the history of free speech, and how it has been used—and misused

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...

30.05.2025 19:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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    📌 1
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Data-driven Learning in and out of the Language Classroom Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Data-driven Learning in and out of the Language Classroom

Data-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    📌 0
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Hiring a dream team in linguistic diversity and social participation Visit the post for more.

www.languageonthemove.com/hiring-a-dre...

12.05.2025 16:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The 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

The 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>
#langsky

12.05.2025 08:37 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Whose English Does AI Speak? AI tools are trained on English, but not the kind most people speak. This post explores how generative AI reinforces American norms, often at the expense of global linguistic diversity. So, whose Engl...

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...

12.05.2025 09:40 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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✨ Join our Multilingualism Day student competition!
🗣Share your views or create a story explaining how #multilingualism strengthens #peace.

ℹ️ Click here for more information and to participate: loom.ly/hrQxY7E
⏳ Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2025

12.05.2025 13:48 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Job Vacancy at Aston University: Research Assistant The Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics is the leading hub for forensic linguistics worldwide. Set up as the Centre for Forensic Linguistics in 2008 by Malcolm Coulthard, it was expanded into a r...

📢 Come work with us 📢
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 👇
jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

12.05.2025 09:49 — 👍 10    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0
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Word of the week: Crisis-tunity I'm not letting this one go to waste.

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    📌 0
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Linguists Find Proof of Sweeping Language Pattern Once Deemed a ‘Hoax’ Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, potentially revealing what a culture values

Linguists Find Proof of Sweeping Language Pattern Once Deemed a ‘Hoax’
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ling...

11.05.2025 08:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Piers Morgan’s silly book

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    📌 92
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Trump Battles Universities, but Especially Harvard and the Ivy League Beyond the politics is a brew of resentment and reverence that the president, an Ivy League graduate himself, has long harbored for a club that has never accepted him.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/u...

05.05.2025 18:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!
YouTube video by TED-Ed Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XrS...

05.05.2025 17:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Which famous figure is considering avoiding America? | Fiona Katauskas He might not hop to it * See more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here Continue reading...

Which famous figure is considering avoiding America? | Fiona Katauskas

18.04.2025 15:03 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Wombats, wallabies and whales: four days walking in Wilsons Promontory national park It’s one of Victoria’s favourite national parks for good reason. Hiking the park’s south reveals stunning coastlines and complex history, topped off by a night in a lighthouse * Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email We left the Wilsons Promontory Lightstation with one last look out to sea, admiring the chain of islands leading like stepping stones across the Strait. They’re the remnants of a landbridge between the Prom and Tasmania’s Freycinet, a link easily seen in the areas’ shared beauty: fine white sand, rough granite and bright orange lichen contrasting with a startlingly blue sea. It’s the nature, the beauty and the walking that brought us here, as well as a sense of unfinished business. My husband and I had been coming to Wilsons Prom for decades, for day walks and multi-day hikes. But we’d never made it to the lighthouse, or stayed in the cottages converted to walkers’ accommodation. To tackle the trip, we booked two bunkrooms and roped in the Schultz family. It would be the first time either of our families – four adults and five kids aged nine to 15 – had attempted a four-day walk, but there was a reward waiting at the end. After 30km of trekking around the Prom, on the last night we’d have luxuries: the cottages’ hot showers and comfy beds. Continue reading...

Wombats, wallabies and whales: four days walking in Wilsons Promontory national park

18.04.2025 15:03 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Trump gutted key research programs studying violence. Experts say it will come at a heavy cost Advocates say cuts to federal programs will ultimately lead to an increase in gun violence and domestic attacks

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

07.04.2025 17:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Millions’ of Americans protested Trump and Musk yesterday Some cities saw over 100,000 protesters.

‘Millions’ of Americans protested Trump and Musk yesterday

06.04.2025 15:30 — 👍 167    🔁 21    💬 4    📌 0
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The 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    📌 0
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Donald Trump’s Ego Melts the Global Economy On a chilly Wednesday afternoon, the President announced he would single-handedly blow up a century’s worth of globalization.

www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

04.04.2025 12:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Archers star Charles Collingwood: ‘The last lie I told? Darling, marvellous isn’t the word’ The longtime Archers star on his beloved Jag, being naughty at nursery school and the trouble with his hair

The Archers star Charles Collingwood: ‘The last lie I told? Darling, marvellous isn’t the word’

08.03.2025 09:48 — 👍 19    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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How long is now? A philosophical enquiry into when our present age began.

open.substack.com/pub/jonn/p/h...

08.03.2025 09:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump administration cancels $400M in grants and contracts with Columbia University | CNN The Trump administration said Friday that it’s pulling $400 million from Columbia University, canceling grants and contracts because of what the government describes as the Ivy League school’s failure...

www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/u...

07.03.2025 20:37 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Education Department staff anxiously await sweeping cuts As career department staff await a delayed executive order and imminent personnel cuts, some say morale is low and tensions are high.

www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

07.03.2025 20:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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