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Six Books by Māori Owned HUIA Publishers Selected for Inaugural IBBY-UNESCO List - Publishing Perspectives

https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/08/six-books-by-maori-owned-huia-publishers-selected-for-inaugural-ibby-unesco-list/

> The IBBY-UNESCO Collection of Remarkable Books for Young Readers in Indigenous and Endangered Languages highlights books from around the world by Indigenous writers with a goal to protect these stories and culture.

#languageeducation #preservationstrategies #languageisolate #culturalawareness

More news on #DundeeUni latest cut plans, including:

"Our academic provision will stay broadly the same, but there are proposals to suspend degrees to varying levels in some subjects, most notably Mathematics, Languages and Philosophy."

"There is no change to our undergraduate course provision for September 2026 entry, and any student who starts in September will be able to finish their degree at Dundee."

#Dundee #Mathematics #languageEducation #Philosophy https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/5520326/dundee-university-suspend-degrees-merge-departments/

Back into Design: CALLing all Language Learning x Technology geeks! #CALL #languageEducation #edtech #linguistics #TESOL https://idstuff.blogspot.com/2025/01/back-into-design-calling-all-language.html

tl;dr: would love it if folks chimed in with ideas for a new course I am developing

Did you miss our recent #DiSCourseSeminar with @nicolabrocca from @fachdidaktik on #LLMs and #Pragmatics: Insights from #Linguistics and #LanguageEducation? Watch it now on OLAT (video): https://lms.uibk.ac.at/auth/RepositoryEntry/4849139825/CourseNode/110919116153415 or on Youtube (slides and audio only): https://youtu.be/yiUfexWOfuw?si=_I6m1DDL2GWXcSet! 📺🙃

#AI #ChatGPT #PoliticalDiSCourse

New publication: "Interview with Steve McCarty" [on his professorial accomplishments in Japan].

The College and University Educators research group of the Japan Association for Language Teaching has honored me with their second annual Veteran Teacher Voices interview on my teaching career in Japan. I critique the foreign language teaching profession, discuss future trends of increasing foreigners in Japan, the need for English, and long-term effects of AI on language acquisition.

I believe educationalists will find this article interesting: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/386424805

和訳 - Japanese translation which I edited: スティーブ・マッカーティとのインタビュー（日本での教授としての業績）: https://researchmap.jp/waoe/misc/48628107/attachment_file.pdf

Publications on bilingualism and language teaching: https://japanned.hcommons.org/bilingualism

#TEFL #Japan #Japanese #LanguageEducation #LanguageTeaching #LanguageLearning #bilingualism #InterculturalCommunication #FacultyDevelopment #career #retirement #InternationalMarriage #OnlineEducation

@linguistics @edutooters @academicchatter

Late in my last semester teaching, here are three photos of autumn colors on campus in Ōsaka.

Soon I will be honored by the College and University Educators research group of the Japan Association for Language Teaching with an interview article about my teaching career. This is after the 2022 book chapter on my relationship with Japan and my research discoveries. The forthcoming interview is mostly about my professorial accomplishments, but it also includes personal happenings. My summation of how the foreign language teaching profession took a wrong turn around the 1990s in Japan will be controversial.

Soon I will post a link to the article or preprint when it is available online.

See publication highlights up to now on online education, Japan, bilingualism, and the academic life, linked from my Website: https://japanned.hcommons.org

#Japan #LanguageEducation #HigherEducation #education #career #photography

@linguistics @academicchatter

Join us on Friday, 12:00 (CET) for another #DiscourseSeminar!

Topic: #LLMs and #Pragmatics: Insights from #Linguistics and #LanguageEducation
Speaker: @nicolabrocca (@fachdidaktik)
Location: Onsite at DiSC or online on Big Blue Button.

More info: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-brocca/

We're looking forward to having @nicolabrocca from @fachdidaktik as a guest speaker at our next #DiSCourseSeminar. Join us on 29 November 2024 (CET) for his talk on LLMs and Pragmatics: Insights from Linguistics and Language Education!

Learn more: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-brocca/

#TeacherEducation #LanguageEducation #AI #LLM #Linguistics

Rafi Saleh reviews two books related to translanguaging for the journal Applied Linguistics. In my view, his analysis displays a kind of disciplinarity whereby generalities about plurilingualism are vulnerable to criticism from various quarters, but by specifying the perspective, such as policy or ontology, differing stances can both be true.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374532611_Multilingual_Perspectives_on_Translanguaging_The_Invention_of_Multilingualism

#translanguaging #bilingualism #multilingualism #LanguageEducation #LanguageTeaching

@linguistics @Bilingualism

Steve's publications on bilingualism: https://japanned.hcommons.org/bilingualism

Too many decades in Japan, but surprised to find that "kawaii" ([Japanese-style] cute, adorable, etc.) has become a loanword in English. Many technical or other English terms that I use are not in the Scrabble Dictionary, but kawaii is. Cuteness is ubiquitous in contemporary Japan, and apparently getting exported. The attached screenshot is from our family LINE group.

I have always advised college students to use Romanized Japanese terms in sentences if there is no English equivalent. This lengthy "List of English words of Japanese origin" would have been handy when I was teaching classes of mixed international and Japanese students. You might also find it of reference or interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Japanese_origin

- Steve McCarty at Humanities Commons: https://japanned.hcommons.org

@linguistics @Bilingualism @edutooter

#Japan #Bilingualism #Bilingual #LanguageEducation #LanguageTeaching #kawaii

@mguhlin @Bilingualism @edutooter @linguistics

2/2 Among the limitations are that the English is too much and too difficult for L2 learners in most academic sources, such as journals. When students use automatic translation, they have probably thought about the content in Japanese, but they can paste auto-translated English into papers without fulfilling the language-driven mandate to balance the content-driven approach. I do not believe in content-based EFL as a pretext to mask a language-driven agenda, since the students are enriched by the transferable knowledge they gain in L1 as well as in L2.

Writing reflects thinking, so I discourage writing and speaking that relies on machine translation or AI. The result might be obvious, but we cannot accuse and police students.

How can we promote authenticity in such an age?

#AI #Bilingualism #BilingualEducation #LanguageEducation #LanguageTeaching #Education #HigherEducation #HigherEd #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #Japan #Japanese

@mguhlin In Bilingualism classes in Japan, I can require students to show what they have learned from this class, which is based on reliable research, and to discuss their own experiences in summary, reflection, and response papers. In such ways I can discern how much of students' writing is their own thinking and analyzing. Findings from the discipline of bilingualism are dwarfed by the amount of common misconceptions about bilingualism, which would presumably be reflected in AI databases, from blogs and such sources in Japanese, where students find mostly stereotypical, anecdotal, or prejudiced information for papers, despite my warnings to use reliable sources. I am wondering how applicable this approach could be for other subject matter areas.

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#AI #Bilingualism #BilingualEducation #LanguageEducation #LanguageTeaching #Education #HigherEducation #HigherEd #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #Japan #Japanese
@Bilingualism @edutooter @linguistics

"Bilingual Perspectives on Language Teaching: The View from the Goal" for the Japan Association for Language Teaching was presented f2f, but I also pre-recorded it with Zoom for asynchronous viewing on YouTube (22 minutes): https://youtu.be/F0zeEIPRIhw

Photos: Zoom screenshot, presentation room in Osaka, and scenes from walking to Osaka Castle after the presentation.

Publications on Bilingualism: https://japanned.hcommons.org/bilingualism
More videos: https://japanned.hcommons.org/multimedia

🦣 groups @Bilingualism @linguistics @edutooters

#Bilingualism #BilingualEducation #Bilingual #multilingualism #multiculturalism #LanguageEducation #LanguageTeaching #LanguageAcquisition #Japan

Similar to this clever tee shirt:

"a monolingual foreign language teacher tells you in effect to 'go where I have not gone,' whereas a bilingual teacher tells you with his or her example, 'come to the state of functioning that I represent'"

From "How Bilingualism Informs Language Teaching"
at https://www.academia.edu/36087862 or https://www.childresearch.net/papers/language/2013_02.html

@Bilingualism @edutooter @linguistics
#Bilingualism #BilingualEducation #Bilingual #multilingualism #multiculturalism #LanguageEducation #LanguageTeaching

More slides from the presentation "Bilingualism for the Individual, Family, and Society" https://www.academia.edu/71334694/Bilingualism_for_the_Individual_Family_and_Society

The 🦣 group @Bilingualism is growing. You join it like you follow someone, then you receive or share posts with that address. The chirp.social groups are nicely designed, so I have also set up one for Online Education. You can scroll through all the posts to the Bilingualism 🦣 group at https://chirp.social/@Bilingualism/shared

#Bilingualism #Bilingual #multilingualism #multiculturalism #LanguageEducation #LanguageTeaching #HigherEducation #HigherEd #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #AcademicToots #ScholarlyCommunications
@linguistics

Regarding #translanguaging vs. code-switching between languages, Rafi Saleh in Bangladesh, who did his PhD in Australia on translanguaging, informed me: "According to code-switching theorists, a bilingual has two linguistic systems, whereas a monolingual has one. For translanguaging theorists, both bilingual and monolingual people have one linguistic system, but bilingual people's systems are more complex, and they learn to divide the system into two for external forces rather than linguistic reasons."
This accords with my view of always-on bilingual mode. The pictures show my proposed paradigm shift from a conventional #ForeignLanguageTeaching model to a #developmental #bilingual perspective.

Join the 🦣 group @Bilingualism to see & share posts.

Readings: https://japanned.hcommons.org/bilingualism

#bilingualism #BilingualEducation #multilingualism #multiculturalism #SecondLanguageAcquisition #LanguageEducation #LanguageTeaching

@linguistics @edutooter

I've set up @Bilingualism for teachers or researchers of plural #languages at levels of the #individual (#bilingual development), #family (bilingual child-raising & #biculturalism), society (a country's language #communities & policies), or #schools (bilingual or #international #education, Second or #ForeignLanguageTeaching teaching).

If you follow it like you follow a person, you can get posts with @Bilingualism in them, or share messages with the group.

#LanguageEducation #foreignlanguage #secondlanguage #multilingualism #multiculturalism
@edutooters @edutooter @japodon

Most of my publications on #bilingualism are at https://wilmina.academia.edu/SteveMcCarty/Bilingualism or https://japanned.hcommons.org/bilingualism

It's a small world when #OnlineLearning expert Curt Bonk of Indiana University presents a Webinar based in Canada and recommends #podcasting by my Indian colleague in Tashkent and my Japancasting channel.
Curt's tour de force "How to Use Shared Online Videos, Podcasts and Webcasts to Engage Online Learners" is reported at https://teachonline.ca/webinar/how-use-shared-online-videos-podcasts-and-webcasts-engage-online-learners
Japancasting topics so far: #Japanese #legends & #religions, society & #education, and #Asian #cultures
See details about #Japancasting #podcasts, related articles, and videos at https://japanned.hcommons.org/multimedia

This content is redone, because server trouble lost the toot and most of my followers. Therefore, please confirm that you are following me if desired. Thank you!

#EdTech #openedtech #openeducation #OpenAccess #OER #DistanceEducation #OnlineEducation #LanguageEducation #EducationalTechnology @edutooters @religidons @religion

https://archive.org/details/pawol-lakay-audio

Pawòl Lakay: Haitian-Creole Language and Culture for Beginner and Intermediate Learners - Instructional CDs by Frenand Léger; Mahalia Germain; Christine Diment; Rashad Cornelius Ferguson

Topics
#languagelearning, #languageinstruction, #languageeducation, #HaitianCreole, #KreyòlAyisyen, #kreyòl

"Pawòl Lakay is a complete first and second year set of Kreyòl materials designed for beginners and intermediate learners at the college level. It is the most comprehensive resource for the teaching and learning of Kreyòl available on the market. This textbook adopts a pragmatic approach to the teaching of language: emphasizing the value of communicative competence, functional language use, and conversational effectiveness. Pawòl Lakay takes into consideration the most recent research findings, new theories and methods in foreign language teaching. It is designed in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and the ACTFL National Standards for Foreign Language Education. Pawòl Lakay meets the five 'Cs' of the national standards for foreign languages which are: Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities.

https://archive.org/details/pa-nu-papia-kriolu-3

Pa Nu Papia Kriolu, Third Edition by Manuel da Luz Gonçalves; Lelia Lomba De Andrade

Topics
#Kriolu, #Kriol, #CapeVerdeanCreole, #CapeVerdeCreole, #languagelearning, #languageinstruction, #languageeducation

"This new Cape Verdean grammar book includes all that you need to learn conversational Cape Verdean Creole. Each chapter includes fun and easy to follow exercises to help you to learn proper Cape Verdean Creole grammar. A comprehensive glossary will help you to build your vocabulary. With it, you can look up words in Creole to find their English meaning, or look up words in English for quick translation into Creole."

Audio CDs uploaded separately here.