"THE BIG GREENBOOKS 500 CLUB".
Since it started last year, with your amazing help, i've been able to send three schools £500 of books each.
We're now approaching the next £500, so today I'll be getting in touch with another school!
THANK YOU!
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Walking the Lycian Way.
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
I sip my coffee and realize: stupidity is not an absence of knowledge, but an excess of certainty.
A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it | Diana Buttu
The Language of Memes by Barbara Dancygier and Lieven Vandelanotte
The first book-length analysis of memes from a linguistic perspective, proposing a new approach to the study of multimodal genres.
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Language Teacher Emotions by Juyoung Song and Elizabeth R. Miller is now free to read for 2 weeks!
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#languageandlinguistics
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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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.
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.
Picture 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 🤓
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...
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
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via @theguardian.com
<It won't die, but change more rapidly than other languages, resulting in many variants>
#langsky
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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🗣Share your views or create a story explaining how #multilingualism strengthens #peace.
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📢 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 👇
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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...
Linguists Find Proof of Sweeping Language Pattern Once Deemed a ‘Hoax’
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Piers Morgan’s silly book
“I’d rather be woke than an ignorant f***ing twat” Kathy Burke
