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Our open-access paper is available online: Operationalising critical thinking in disciplinary writing: insights from corpus and cluster analyses of lecturer feedback tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Feel free to share! Thank British Council for funding @Education_Leeds Centre for Language Education Research

Our first article is out! Glad to be part of this exciting project with Huahui Zhao and Natalie Finlayson #OpenAccess

Honoured to be listed in the top 2% of scientists in the world, alongside great colleagues from Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni (and elsewhere!).

In the first paper from our "Unveiling the factors for the predictive validity of IELTS for postgrad studies" project, we investigate expectations about critical thinking in a corpus of feedback on assignments & develop a taxonomy for future assessment based on 9 CT constructs

#Auroraborealis is explosive in #Glasgow tonight! Stars are cracking as well 🌌🌠🔭 #aurora #northernlights

Registration is open for #ALR2024, The 5th Online International Symposium on Applied Linguistics Research hosted by جامعة الأمير سلطان November 2-3. You can attend any/all sessions *free of charge* Programme: info.psu.edu.sa/VirtualEventsP… Links to register: info.psu.edu.sa/VirtualEventsP…

This weekend, as part of #ALR2024, I'm giving a **free** workshop on #vocabularyprofiling with MultilingProfiler and ChatGPT on behalf of @lpedagogy. Sunday 3 Nov 10.30-11.30 GMT. Link to register: zoom.us/webinar/regist… Expanded abstract below.⬇️ #mfltwitterati #edutwitter

I recently attended a fascinating workshop at the 5th International Symposium on Applied Linguistics #ALR2024, delivered by Natalie Finlayson from the University of York and @lpedagogy. The session explored innovative ways to combine AI and vocabulary profiling in language teaching

Have you used, or are you using, MultilingProfiler in your teaching, research, or materials design? If so, we would love to feature your project on our site! Really exciting to see so many applications of the tool in all three areas so far. Contact: multilingprofiler.net

For those interested in the mechanics of concordance analysis, do check out my piece for the Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21) blog. It’s a summary of my ICAME - Int. Comp. Archive of Mod. & Med. English talk earlier this year, focusing on ways of resolving uninterpretability: dhss.phil.fau.eu/2024/12/05/res… 😊

Delighted to receive the hard copy of our chapter: 'Corpus Linguistics in Second Language Vocabulary Research', published in the Routledge Handbook of Technological Advances in Research Language Learning. Looking forward to exploring the other chapters in this excellent volume!

It's Tuesday! and Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social and I are delighted to present two more new papers in our LSP Policy Journal collection on Languages education in the UK. The first is by Emma Marsden and Rachel Hawkes looking at lessons from MFL GCSE reforms in England.

Out today: "Balancing evidence-informed language policy and pragmatic considerations: Lessons from the MFL GCSE reforms in England" Marsden & Hawkes summarise the GCSE revisions, discuss research evidence & consider lessons about assessment policy change lspjournal.com/post/balancing…

Finally putting the bay window to its intended use ☺️ Frohes Fest🎄🌟❄️🕯️🎅

Nice #French 🇫🇷 #corpus study on how the positions of contrastive adverbs, emphatic pronouns, and 'quant à' constructions vary in writing vs. speech and formal vs. informal contexts

The International Journal of Corpus Linguistics #IJCL has moved over to Bluesky. Please follow: @ijcl.bsky.social

The 3rd paper from our "Unveiling the factors for the predictive validity of IELTS for PG studies" project is out! In this one, we use learner #corpora created from 230 L2 student assignments to track #vocabulary use across 2 semesters of PG study in #Education & Engineering ⬇️

🎥 We’ve created a series of short video tutorials to help you get the most out of #MultilingProfiler. Watch walkthroughs of 11 key features—with examples, commentary, and research explanations👇 youtube.com/playlist?list=… #L2learning #languagelearning #linguistics #edtech