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European Day of Languages 2025: What Are We Really Celebrating?
Beyond posters and slogans, what does the European Day of Languages really mean? This post reflects on how we might move from symbolic recognition to genuinely sustaining the plurality of voices that shape contemporary Europe.
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September 2025: Notes on Teaching, Research, and Writing
This post gathers a handful of recent updates from my desk: celebrating a successful doctoral defense, progress on projects like ReaLiTea, AI-Lang, and LocaLLing, and sharing some publishing opportunities. I also highlight recent reading and offer a glimpse behind the scenes, where student encounters remind me what academic life is really about.
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The AI ‘alignment problem’ in language education and applied linguistics
Drawing on a recent publication (Curry et al., 2025), this post reflects on how AI aligns (or fail to align?) with the epistemological, ontological, and ethical values of applied linguistics and language education.
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Making Research Work for Language Teachers
This post discusses the importance of teacher research in language education, arguing that teachers actively engage in research-like activities, even if they don’t label it as such.
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Rethinking language textbooks: Language, Ideology, and Liquid Racism
Textbooks aren’t neutral. They shape how learners see language, culture, and identity while reinforcing hidden ideologies in education. This post explores how educators can critically engage with language textbooks to foster inclusion, justice, and critical awareness in the classroom.
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Schoolscapes Aren’t Neutral: Language Teaching for Inclusion
This post explores ways in which language teachers can engage learners through schoolscapes, i.e., posters, signs, and visual texts that shape language ideologies. With real-world examples, it shows how classrooms can reflect and promote multilingual inclusion.
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Using Linguistic Landscapes to Challenge Monolingual Norms in ELT
The post aims to challenge monolingual practices in language education. Drawing on a recently published study (Schvarcz & Warren, 2025) it argues that recognizing students’ linguistic backgrounds fosters engagement and inclusion.
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Advancing the ECML Guidelines for language education
On 20 May 2024, the AI Lang team held a pivotal meeting to advance one of the project’s key objectives: the development of the ECML Recommendations for the Use of AI in Language Education. Here’s an update.
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CLELE Journal: New issue and volunteering opportunity
This post introduces the May 2025 issue of CLELE Journal, with articles on critical literacy, cultural representation, and inclusive pedagogy through literature. It also features a call for volunteer copyeditors and submission info for prospective authors, ideal for educators, researchers and anyone interested in children’s literature and language education.