#appliedlinguistics — Public Fediverse posts

Is there anybody here who will be at #SS26 in a few days?
#SocioLinguistics #AppliedLinguistics
#FortHare
#KuGompo
#AcademicMastodon
https://www.ufh.ac.za/sociolinguistics-symposium-2026

I try to be optimistic about academia, but then there are evenings like today...

I am reviewing a textbook on GenAI and second language teaching for a renowned commercial publisher. Although I now priorise reviewing for scholar-led, non-commercial publishers, the topic is of personal interest to me and I accepted this invitation because I wanted to ensure that critical AI literacies were well represented in this new textbook (and decent financial compensation was offered, which I admit was also a motivation). This evening, I started reading the preface (which was short but promising) and the introduction. After a couple of pages of pleasant reading, I came across a statement that I thought was odd so I decided to follow up on the reference that was used to support this statement. It turned out that the DOI in the reference section returned a 404. And that the entire reference does not exist! This made me suspicious so I went through all references in Ch. 1 and found three additional hallucinated references and several more incorrect DOIs! I'm not reading any further – will now stop working and attempt to write a polite review tomorrow.

#AppliedLinguistics #SLA #GenAI #academia

My thoughts on "What Makes Academic Writing Human(e): A Critical Realist Response" in: Bouchard & Zotzmann, eds. #CriticalRealism in #AppliedLinguistics #CambridgeUniversityPress 2026

#AcademicWriting
#WhatMakesWritingAcademic
#WhatMakesAcademicWritingHumane
#GenAI

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/critical-realism-in-applied-linguistics/what-makes-academic-writing-humane/C0B8F2E866A5750FE9B4C19FD04FD78A

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

https://www.earli.org/events/sig-writing-conference-2026

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

A humanistic approach to #GAI:

"humans communicate on the basis of word-world relationships, [...] AI technologies [are] to word-word'

#AcWri
#ArtificialIntelligence
#CompositionStudies
#Humanities
#CriticalRealism
#WhatMakesWritingAcademic
#Emancipation
#AppliedLinguistics
#HigherEd

https://rdcu.be/d3AMw

"Said contends that words are not merely passive figures but vital agents in historical and political change"
#Humanism

#ExplanatoryCritique

#CriticalRealism

#Emancipation

#AcWri

#AppliedLinguistics

#SocioLinguistics

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/humanism-and-democratic-criticism/9780231122641

Prof. Schauer gave a presentation at the University of Padua on 8th May with the title "L2 #Pragmatics and young learners - focus on (instructional) materials". #L2Pragmatics , #ELT , #YLL , #English , #AppliedLinguistics

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

For those curious about #Feminism and its relevance to #tleap (Teaching English for Academic Purposes) this event may be of interest:

https://feminismxeap.wordpress.com/

#AppliedLinguistics #AcademicLiteracies #HigherEducation

Can anybody please share an example of a #LiteratureReview being used *as method*, ideally in #AppliedLinguistics, but also #SocialScience #Humanities generally?

Something along these lines:

'Literature review as a research methodology', but this is in a Business Research journal:

https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.07.039

🎶
an "academic fashion show, with authors invited on the stage to demonstrate the cut of their chosen #theory" (Playfair, R., 2023)🎶

Feat. Dr Jackie Tuck on #AcademicLiteracies & me on #CriticalRealism

#BookReview #CriticalRealism #AcademicLiteracies #AcWri #AppliedLinguistics

https://www.esptodayjournal.org/pdf/january_2024/book_review/1_Rob_Playfair.pdf

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8xwD5qlDEk

Prof. Schauer (https://mastodon.social/@gilaschauer) gave a presentation at the 20th AILA World Congress (https://aila2023.fr/) with the title "Addressing #diversity issues with graphic novels in the secondary #EFL classroom: focus on #health and #bullying" , #AppliedLinguistics , #ELT

#introduction

I'm a #Linguist with research on Taiwanese (臺灣本土語言) language vitality and revitalisation. My broader interests include language policy and language management within multilingual contexts.

I speak a few #languages (listed in my profile), and trying to relearn my personal #HeritageLanguage (s) which I lost as I grew up.

Would love to connect with others who are involved with similar interests.

#SocioLinguistics #AppliedLinguistics #LanguageReclamation
#Taiwanese

Thanx to @baleap (twitter account), our #BALEAP2023 talk on #AcademicWriting is now here:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9_rEKNPolDY&list=PL0xk8t5VPtuu00x2mGsaY3r0HJa-LD5wI&index=49 (26').

Responses to our 5 provocations were not recorded but some are here:

https://ougraduateschool.padlet.org/julia1796/troubling-academic-writing-in-the-academy-a-conversation-abo-pfiyhpw86hs6uubb

@FrenchMandywba (twitter)
& I welcome further informed responses on the padlet

#tleap #AppliedLinguistics #AcWri #ResearchWriting #AcademicPublishing