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Gila Schauer @gilaschauer.bsky.social · 1d

At the end of 2021, Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis, Milica Savic, Anders Myrset and I had our first conversations about editing a book on L2 pragmatics & young language learners. In our blog entry we explain why we felt that this book was needed: channelviewpublications.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/y...

Pragmatics in Primary EFL Education

This month we published Second Language Pragmatics and Young Language Learners edited by Gila A. Schauer, Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis, Milica Savić and Anders Myrset. In this post the editors expla…

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Gila Schauer @gilaschauer.bsky.social · 18d

I am delighted that our edited volume "Second Language #Pragmatics and Young Language Learners - #EFL #Primary #School Contexts in #Europe" is now available www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/.... We are very gratetful to our contributors who accompanied us on this journey!

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Linguistics @ Uni Erfurt @ling-unierfurt.bsky.social · 25d

Ein herzliches Willkommen (zurück) an all unsere Studierenden und Kolleg:innen! Wir wünschen allen ein gutes und interessantes Semester!
A very warm welcome (back) to all our students and colleagues!
We wish everyone a good and interesting semester!

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Linguistics @ Uni Erfurt @ling-unierfurt.bsky.social · Jun 26

Prof. Gila Schauer gave a presentation with the title "Children's #literature and young #L2 learners: investigating the potential of graphic novels for L2 #pragmatic instruction" at the Annual ITAP conference on 26th June. www.ub.edu/itap-associa...

This image shows the cover slide of the aforementioned presentation.

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Linguistics @ Uni Erfurt @ling-unierfurt.bsky.social · May 1

We are deeply worried about recent developments on some social media platforms that no longer prohibit insults based on a person's appearance, ethnic or national background, gender, health, religion, or sexual orientation.

We are committed to a respectful communication style.

Kürzliche Entwicklungen in sozialen Medien, die es nun gestatten, Menschen auf Grund ihres Aussehens, ihres Geschlechts, ihres Gesundheitszustandes, ihrer Herkunft, ihrer Nationalität, ihrer Religion und ihrer sexuellen Orientierung zu beleidigen, bereiten uns große Sorge.
Wir stehen für eine respektvolle Kommunikation.

The image features the same text as in the original post on a colourful background.

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Linguistics @ Uni Erfurt @ling-unierfurt.bsky.social · Apr 5

Ein herzliches Willkommen (zurück) an all unsere Studierenden und Kolleg:innen! Wir wünschen allen ein gutes und interessantes Semester!
A very warm welcome (back) to all our students and colleagues!
We wish everyone a good and interesting semester!

Dieses Bild zeigt einen Blick aus Fenstern der Universität Erfurt auf Bäume.

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Gila Schauer @gilaschauer.bsky.social · Mar 28

Open access books on various aspects of linguistics published by John Benjamins can be found here: www.jbe-platform.com/content/coll...

Open Access Books (ca. 80 titles) | John Benjamins

Welcome to e-content platform of John Benjamins Publishing Company. Here you can find all of our electronic books and journals, for purchase and download or subscriber access.

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Gila Schauer @gilaschauer.bsky.social · Mar 27

Just came across Bloomsbury's open access ebook collection which at the time of writing includes 695 books from a variety of subjects (e.g., education, history, linguistics, etc.). The link below goes to the linguistics section. www.bloomsburycollections.com/search-resul...

Bloomsbury Collections - Search Results

www.bloomsburycollections.com

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Gila Schauer @gilaschauer.bsky.social · Mar 27

UNESCO's "Languages matter: global guidance on multilingual education" (2025) is now available. It also contains a helpful overview of key acronyms and terms on pages 12-14. unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...

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Gila Schauer @gilaschauer.bsky.social · Feb 17

Herzlich willkommen, liebe Petra!

Linguistics @ Uni Erfurt @ling-unierfurt.bsky.social · Feb 17

Wir freuen uns sehr Frau Prof. Dr. Petra Knorr, die neue Inhaberin der Professur für Englischdidaktik mit Schwerpunkt Sprachlehr- und -lernforschung, im Team begrüßen zu dürfen. Herzlich willkommen!
www.uni-erfurt.de/philosophisc...

Prof. Dr. Petra Knorr

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Gila Schauer @gilaschauer.bsky.social · Dec 23

Circumstances in many places all over the world have been challenging in 2024. I wish all of us a peaceful, happy and healthy 2025, and hope that we will experience a renewed appreciation for democratic processes, kindness, and living in harmony with each other & nature in the new year.

This image shows the Merchants' Bridge in Erfurt in December 2024. It also contains the message: Merry Christmas and happy holidays.

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Gila Schauer @gilaschauer.bsky.social · Dec 14

Interesting research project focusing on openings & closures of "academic degree programs (BA, MA, minors, majors, PhD) in languages or linguistics, literatures and cultural studies, translation or interpreting studies, and language teaching offered in university language centers" in Europe.

Philipp Krämer @phkraemer.bsky.social · Dec 13

Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why?
If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)!
elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...

Door of a subway seen from the inside closing automatically with a flashing red light

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Gila Schauer @gilaschauer.bsky.social · Dec 4

Ein sehr spannender Vortrag, der gerade auch für Forscher:innen im Bereich der Pragmatik sehr interessant war. Das #openaccess Buch "Berufsbezogene #Deutschförderung - #Lernziele" von O. Bärenfänger, N. Nietsche & S. Plassmann findet sich hier: www.bamf.de/SharedDocs/A...

www.bamf.de

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Gila Schauer @gilaschauer.bsky.social · Dec 4

Ein sehr spannender Vortrag, der gerade auch für Forscher:innen im Bereich der Pragmatik sehr interessant war. Das #openaccess Buch "Berufsbezogene #Deutschförderung - #Lernziele" von O. Bärenfänger, N. Nietsche & S. Plassmann findet sich hier: www.bamf.de/SharedDocs/A...

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Linguistics @ Uni Erfurt @ling-unierfurt.bsky.social · Dec 4

Wir bedanken uns herzlich bei Herrn Professor Olaf Bärenfänger (Universität Leipzig) für seinen Vortrag im EPPP Nachwuchskolleg mit dem Titel: "Sprachliche Kompetenzen für den Beruf modellieren: Skalen erstellen und anwenden". #Sprachwissenschaft , #Deutsch , #DaZ , #DaF

Dieses Bild zeigt das Poster zum Vortrag

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Gila Schauer @gilaschauer.bsky.social · Dec 4

Nach dem Post mit dem Link zur finanziellen Situation der britischen #Universitäten, hier nun ein lesenswerter Blogbeitrag zu der Situation der deutschen #Hochschulen von @jmwiarda.bsky.social , www.jmwiarda.de/2024/11/25/k...

Knappe Kasse?

In Baden-Württemberg und Berlin protestieren die Hochschulen gegen drohende Kürzungen. Vorboten für Entwicklungen, die auch anderswo drohen? Ein aktueller Überblick über die Hochschulfinanzierung in a...

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Gila Schauer @gilaschauer.bsky.social · Nov 30

Just seen the list of UK universities closing departments, restructuring and making staff redundant qmucu.org/qmul-transfo... via @iancushing.bsky.social & @gsoh31.bsky.social . This is horrendous. My thoughts are with colleagues working at these institutions and their students.

UK HE shrinking

This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…

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Gila Schauer @gilaschauer.bsky.social · Nov 25

An interesting (and at times rather funny) form of protest

Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · Nov 23

A great British bookshelf revolt buries Johnson’s Unleashed

A new craze is sweeping the nation’s bookshops up and down the country in a peaceful protest about a certain disgraced ex-PM’s book Unleashed

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A great British bookshelf revolt buries Johnson’s Unleashed

A new craze is sweeping the nation’s bookshops up and down the country in a peaceful protest about a certain disgraced ex-PM’s book Unleashed

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Gila Schauer @gilaschauer.bsky.social · Nov 24

If you are interested in second language (L2) pragmatics & young language learners (YLL), I highly recommend "Researching and Teaching Speech Acts with Young L2 Learners: Beneath the Linguistic Surface" by M. Savic, A. Mryset, M. Economidou-Kogetsidis, www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...

Researching and Teaching Speech Acts with Young L2 Learners

This book introduces the main concepts and research findings of second language pragmatics in relation to young language learners. It also explores issues in teaching pragmatics and conducting pragmat...

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Gila Schauer @gilaschauer.bsky.social · Nov 20

Over the years, I have frequently referred to "Let's talk and talk about it" by Willis Edmondson & Juliane House (1981), which had been out of print for some time. I was delighted to come across "Expressions, Speech Acts & Discourse" by Edmondson, House & Kadar published in 2023 by CUP.

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Gila Schauer @gilaschauer.bsky.social · Nov 20

University of Erfurt - November 2024

This photo shows the University of Erfurt at dusk

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Gila Schauer @gilaschauer.bsky.social · Nov 18

My open access book "Intercultural Competence and Pragmatics" came out this year.
It examines how modern foreign language teachers in higher education conceptualize intercultural competence in relation to pragmatics.
Link: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

This image shows the book mentioned in the text above.

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Gila Schauer @gilaschauer.bsky.social · Nov 18

It's great to see so many accounts from people that I knew from that other place. 😊
My last post there was in December 2022.
I am looking forward to getting (re)acquainted with people here.

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