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Benio Suzuki
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Applied Linguistics, L2 Pragmatics
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18 months. 12,000 questions. A whole lot of anxiety. What I learned from reading students’ ChatGPT logs
18 months. 12,000 questions. A whole lot of anxiety. What I learned from reading students’ ChatGPT logs
Students increasingly use AI chatbots for anything from academic queries to emotional quandaries. But are they missing out on the chance to make their own mistakes? Three undergrads reveal all …
www.theguardian.com
July 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Calling local EMCA scholars:

Unlock the Power of Membership Categorisation Analysis with Visiting Professor @robinjsmith.bsky.social
27 – 29 May | Wits University | Research Methods Workshop

Register here: forms.office.com/r/y9v7BW9Zuh

Start preparing for @iiemca27.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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(via John Heritage) For those of you who cannot attend this event, a livestream will begin May 18th at 2:15 Pacific on:
youtube.com/live/ldel0Ea...
Please pass this on! @iscaupdates.bsky.social #emca
May 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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New book coming out July15 2025! My chapter is on #L2 #Japanese Speakers and #Language #Ideologies, I examine the impact of #Monolingual bias on beliefs about unwanted #CodeSwitching .Use discount code ICJ50 & get 50%off @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social here: www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...
April 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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📑 An #openaccess article for your rainy Wednesday reading, "Working memory, L2 proficiency, and task complexity: Independent and interactive effects on L2 written performance," in Studies in Second Language Acquisition by Olena Vasylets (@ub.edu & @uab.cat) & colleagues 👏

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S027...
March 19, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Full article: Friends as mediators in study abroad contexts in Japan: negotiating stereotypical discourses about Japanese culture www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Friends as mediators in study abroad contexts in Japan: negotiating stereotypical discourses about Japanese culture
Upon encountering unfamiliar words or observing local practices in study abroad contexts, second language learners may discuss aspects of the target language and culture with their peers – 'non-nat...
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March 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The incorporation of languaging tasks into pragmatics training for L2 teachers: The case of a Spanish graduate teaching assistant - Li Yang, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The incorporation of languaging tasks into pragmatics training for L2 teachers: The case of a Spanish graduate teaching assistant - Li Yang, 2025
To enhance the visibility of pragmatics in second language (L2) teacher education, this study observed the development of a Spanish-speaking graduate teaching a...
journals.sagepub.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Sunday morn - reread.

Most recommended for anyone engaged in research ‘on’ other communities. Lays down the critical grammar for ethical research: work with/alongside not ‘on’. The ‘how to’ constitutes ethics such that research isn’t “one of the dirtiest words”.
March 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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🧠📚 New study by Radha Chandy & Raquel Serrano (@ub.edu) & Ana Pellicer-Sánchez (University College London) in Applied Psycholinguistics! Discover how context impacts the way we process and learn new words in a second language while reading. #openaccess

🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
February 14, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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📍A wonderful time in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium at MOBILLE 2025 (Mobilizing language learners and teachers - International conference) at UCLouvain! GRAL member & PhD candidate Bridget Murphy presented her work on MALL and L2 learning. Plenaries by Sonia Rocca, Lourdes Ortega, & Marjan Asgari.
February 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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It’s out! Ten years of long distance collaboration, much respect to my co-author & friend Fethi and all who collaborated. We feel the book makes a contribution to language policy (theory, critique and method), to language rights and problem-solving.

www.bibdsl.co.uk/bds-images/l...
January 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Here’s the link to the Special issue of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 47:3 (2024):

Decolonizing or recolonizing?
AI through the eyes of applied linguists, language teachers, and language learners.

benjamins.com/catalog/aral...
Tentative Reliant on Reviewer Feedback
Issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
benjamins.com
January 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Posted this at the old place, but thought folks on @bsky.app might like to know I finally met my "mother".
December 12, 2024 at 10:56 PM
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EuroSLA 34 call for papers: deadline extended to 12 December 2024!
The submission portal for Eurosla 34 in Tromsø (June 25 – 28 2025) is now open. en.uit.no/tavla/artikk...
December 5, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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Your personality changes when you speak another language, but that’s not always a bad thing

theconversation.com/your-persona...
Your personality changes when you speak another language, but that’s not always a bad thing
Emotions are more vivid in your mother tongue, but you’re more objective when speaking a second language.
theconversation.com
December 4, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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Interested in conversation analysis but don't know where to start? The next "CA for beginners" online one day workshop may be for you.
Thursday 16th January 2025
emcawiki.net/CA_for_Begin...
Registration £40 at:
store.lboro.ac.uk/product-cata...
CA for Beginners January 2025 - emcawiki
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November 25, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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"'How are you?' These are the three most useless words in the world of communication."

This compelling (but wrong/daft) assertion is based on #communication myth rather than how we actually talk 🧐

And asking "how are you" can even save lives...

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[Bringing #EMCA threads to Bluesky!]
November 24, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Language shouldn’t be used as a weapon to attack someone and make them quiet.
November 22, 2024 at 3:32 PM
To those who are attending JALT 2024 in Shizuoka. Our Pragmatics SIG will hold a forum on Pragmatics and Globalisation from 13:45 on Sunday, in Room 906. Please come join us!!

#JALT2024 #Pragmatics
November 16, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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New #openaccess paper:
Neff, J., Arciaga, K., & Burri, M. (2024). EFL students' and teachers' perceptions of the ethical uses of AI tools. Technology in Language Teaching & Learning, 6(3), 1–19
www.castledown.com/journals/tlt...
Technology in Language Teaching & Learning
www.castledown.com
November 15, 2024 at 7:58 PM
November 16, 2024 at 1:57 AM
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***Updated!***

I'll do updates once a week. Reply or DM to be added and keep sharing to grow our community on here!

Here's an #EMCA #conversation analysis #ethnomethodology #MembershipCategorizationAnalysis #DiscursivePsychology #StarterPack #AcademicSky

go.bsky.app/DHMkXcX
November 15, 2024 at 10:45 PM