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  1. June 2nd to 4, 2026, the #WritingResearch community will meet in #Winterthur, #Switzerland, for the #SIGWriting Conference 2026. Hosted at #ZHAW School of #AppliedLinguistics

    The website is online

    earli.org/events/sig-writing-c

    The call for proposals is open until *December 17, 2025* 24:00 AOE. It's a firm deadline!

    We welcome submission as a paper, symposium, poster or demo, or roundtable. All formats are explained on the website, or just ask me :)

    Plz boost!

    #SIGWriting2026 #AcademicChatter

  2. Is there an authoritative peer reviewed & referenced #OpenAccess dictionary of #tleap (Teaching English for Academic Purposes) with definitions/explanations of common yet slippery concepts eg #AcademicVoice #Criticality #Argument, etc?

    #AppliedLinguistics #AcWri #AcademicWriting #AcademicLiteracies

  3. Important talk on re-valuing the art of the #BookReview as contribution to knowledge & disciplinary reflexivity.

    Relevant to & beyond #AppliedLinguistics & English for Academic Purposes (EAP) communities

    #AcademicReading #AcWri #HigherEducation #SlowAcademia #tleap

    youtube.com/watch?v=I8xwD5qlDE

  4. CW: Bilingual Education and a Taxonomy of Bilingualism

    Last set of slides from the presentation "Bilingualism for the Individual, Family, and Society" and further readings:
    1. Educational options: see "Bilingual Child-Raising Possibilities in Japan" at academia.edu/29100754
    2. Feel free to use this ideal example of bilingual education, and see, for instance, "Analyzing Types of Bilingual Education" at academia.edu/36116439
    3. Taxonomy of Bilingualism: see the series on the Individual Level at academia.edu/36117585 > the Family and Societal Levels at academia.edu/36117702 > and the School & Academic Levels at academia.edu/36117786
    4. Presentation title slide

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    #Bilingualism #Bilingual #BilingualEducation #multilingualism #multiculturalism #LanguageEducation #Linguistics #AppliedLinguistics
    @linguistics

  5. A reminder that English "is just one of the roughly 7000 languages spoken or signed in the world" and that studies in #CognitiveLinguistics have been biased because of this.

    Grateful to a cognitive linguistics colleague for sharing this as these kinds of issues generally tend to be raised by socio-linguists & applied-linguists.

    What linguistic biases are being built into #GPT+ #MachineLearning?

    #AppliedLinguistics #tleap #SocioLinguistics #ArtificialIntelligence #AcWri
    cell.com/trends/cognitive-scie