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🚨 Join the 1st #BAAL #LanguageCurriculum SIG Symposium! 🗓 19 June 2025 | ⏰ 9am–12pm BST | 💻 Online & Free for @__BAAL members 🎤 Plenary: Dr Suha Alansari + 6 talks 🔗 Register: https://t.co/rTRtOfBuPQ @darioluisbaneg1 @MQuerolJulian @tomaszjohn84 @alannhuang @v_beltran_

New book brings together authors from different geographical and professional contexts united by a common goal: to bring about a change in language teacher education and language classrooms.

💖 i am running a two day summer school on linguistic justice for school teachers, in Manchester on June 12 & July 4. places are free, and travel etc is all fully funded. full details here, including how to express an interest in participating: https://t.co/orezo3sGoQ 💖

LINGUIST List 36.376 Calls: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Ling & Literature, Sociolinguistics: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching - "Attending to Linguistic Racism and Trauma: Towards Trauma-informed Care in TESOL"

📝 NEW BLOG POST Documenting and dismantling language ideologies in education By Ian Cushing, Manchester Metropolitan University @ManMetUni @MCRLinguistics @MMUEnglishDept Read here: https://t.co/9WBJSqDXCC

You haven’t sent an abstract yet? Now is your chance 👇📩📌

Join us on May 30-31st, 2025, at Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey for our 3rd International Symposium on Social Justice in ELT! This is a hybrid event welcoming both in-person and virtual presentations. Call for papers: https://t.co/z2x0eiDcFU @ELINET_Network @baalsjsig

Unspeakability - we in the audience could not voice our support, but we breathed together, shed tears, sent hearts & offered heartfelt thanks for @KhawlaBadwan's words and her tireless work of bearing witness and advancing the field of applied linguistics, with @alison_phipps. 💔

Lots of inspiring talks at the #BAAL SIG Online Summit! 🌍✨🔹 Virtual Exchange for decolonizing ELT with a Global-South/North lens 🔹 "Mimicry English" and the periphery of Swedish education 🔹 Freedom of Speech and Social Justice: A Virtual Exchange Kit (Hiba B. Ibrahim)

It was wonderful to share my work on reflexivity with adult ESOL students at the @baalsjsig online summit today. Thank you to all the organisers for putting together such a great event

Right now @KhawlaBadwan powerful keynote at our Online Summit on Language & Social Justice: "Pushing language to bear witness: Holding the crumbs of words in the face of the unspeakable." Inspiring insights from her forthcoming book Language in Times of Unspeakability🌍

An inspiring talk by @MoeAteek on participatory translanguaging for language learners in the context of trauma and asylum seeking! As well as a pedagogy, TL is an "act of resilience and resistance" in contexts of linguistic oppression. @baalsjsig #translanguaging #socialjustice

🌍Exploring equity in education right now 📖Participatory translanguaging as a pedagogy for language learners in challenging circumstances: A drive to social justice–Mohammed Ateek 🌏Surveying preservice teachers' perceptions of international mindedness–Mohammad Makram Mareye

🌟BAAL LESJ SIG Summit starts right now! Bridging Social Justice and Applied Linguistics - let's highlight how language can drive positive change. Plenary 1: Towards a Decolonial Ecolinguistics: Challenging Modernity’s Triple Fracture by Gavin Lamb🌍#baallesjsigonlinesummit

We’re still accepting registrations for this event, please share and sign up 🤓

We’re still accepting registrations for this event, please share and sign up 🤓

This is a great event, opening spaces for scholarly curiosity, creativity and generosity. It centres education as a practice of collective thriving in pursuit of social justice. Looking forward to attending and presenting with the crumbs of words in the face of the unspeakable

📢 Join our @__BAAL Language Curriculum SIG Autumn Webinar 2024!🗓 8 November 2024 | ⏰ 9am-11am (GMT) | 💻 ZOOM / Join John Macalister on teacher prep & curriculum design, and Dr. Fei Victor Lim on multimodality in language learning. 🔗 Register now: https://t.co/V3EDfv7Z7h

I’m really looking forward to sharing my work at this free, online event amongst such a great lineup of speakers