"An unholy alliance of far-right ideology and mercenary venture capitalists has politicized the classroom. We must reject their vision of America and insist that a liberal arts education accessible to more than just the elite is one of the great foundations of a democracy.”

#WestVirginiaUniversity #NewYorkTimes #Humanities #Democracy #Education #LiberalArts #LanguageTeaching

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/20/opinion/west-virginia-university-cuts.html

West Virginia University will drop language teaching even though 2,700 students are taking language classes. #111Words #WestVirginiaUniversity #LanguageTeaching #Outsourcing https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/08/west-virginia-university-will-drop.html

Accents don't spread easily in the language classroom. A "native-speaking" teacher doesn't guarantee native-like sounds, nor does a "nonnative" teacher result in deviant pronunciation. #nativespeakerism #languageteaching #languagelearning

Nativeness isn't crucial for language teaching, but it's often used as a gatekeeping measure in the industry. #teaching #languageteaching #ELT #nativespeakerism

Could it be a language teaching myth that teachers can't gain insights about the target language from their students? #teaching #languagelearning #languageteaching

New blog post on comprehensible input in language learning
https://glisten.ist/2023/07/27/how-glisten-puts-the-comprehensible-in-comprehensible-input/

#LanguageLearning #LangToot #LanguageTeaching

For the last few weeks I've had terrible self steem regaedng my classes. I felt defeared after the class, as if my wasted the time of my students.

This week's diferent. For the fist time in a while, I'm satisfied with the outcome, and I'm glad the shit train is over.

I'm sure my students noticed the bd streak, but I wonder how much they did.

#languageTeaching #Teachers

Teaching at International Schools in Japan: How I Added the IB Certificate to My Resume - GaijinPot
https://blog.gaijinpot.com/teaching-at-international-schools-in-japan-how-i-added-the-ib-certificate-to-my-resume/

>Here’s what I learned from earning certification in a global education program and how it boosted my professional development.

#InternationalBaccalaureate #International #Baccalaureate #IB #ALT #TEFL #TESOL #LanguageTeaching #Teaching

Me (a Spanish teacher): There are a LOT of great reasons to take German class!

My German teacher friends: EVERYONE IN THIS COUNTRY SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO TAKE SPANISH!

Shrug, both things can be true! #LanguageLearning #LanguageTeaching #Spanish #German #LanguageClass

"Bilingual Perspectives on Language Teaching: The View from the Goal" for the Japan Association for Language Teaching was presented f2f, but I also pre-recorded it with Zoom for asynchronous viewing on YouTube (22 minutes): https://youtu.be/F0zeEIPRIhw

Photos: Zoom screenshot, presentation room in Osaka, and scenes from walking to Osaka Castle after the presentation.

Publications on Bilingualism: https://japanned.hcommons.org/bilingualism
More videos: https://japanned.hcommons.org/multimedia

🦣 groups @Bilingualism @linguistics @edutooters

#Bilingualism #BilingualEducation #Bilingual #multilingualism #multiculturalism #LanguageEducation #LanguageTeaching #LanguageAcquisition #Japan

Forthcoming presentation "Bilingual Perspectives on Language Teaching: The View from the Goal" at the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) Osaka Chapter Back to School conference on April 23, 2023; event details will be updated at http://www.osakajalt.org

ABSTRACT: A goal for language learners is to function in plural languages according to their own purposes. A bilingual perspective starts from that attainable goal. Learners tend to idealize L2 mastery or becoming bilingual, so it becomes other people’s business. Monolingual teachers tell students by their example, “go where I have not gone,” whereas a bilingual teacher says, “come to my state of functioning.” This presentation details a paradigm shift from the predominant monolingual second language acquisition (SLA) paradigm to a developmental bilingual perspective.

Links to relevant publications: https://japanned.hcommons.org/bilingualism

@Bilingualism @linguistics
#Bilingualism #BilingualEducation #LanguageEducation #LanguageTeaching

RT @perezparedes
21st #INGED #ELT Getting Off the Beaten Path in ELT Conference at @EruMedya Nov 2023 #languageteaching #languagelearning #language @erdemakbas_dr https://twitter.com/erdemakbas_dr/status/1641726925079969797

Similar to this clever tee shirt:

"a monolingual foreign language teacher tells you in effect to 'go where I have not gone,' whereas a bilingual teacher tells you with his or her example, 'come to the state of functioning that I represent'"

From "How Bilingualism Informs Language Teaching"
at https://www.academia.edu/36087862 or https://www.childresearch.net/papers/language/2013_02.html

@Bilingualism @edutooter @linguistics
#Bilingualism #BilingualEducation #Bilingual #multilingualism #multiculturalism #LanguageEducation #LanguageTeaching

🇪🇸 Esta semana, he escrito esta entrada en el blog del Instituto Nacional de Evaluación Educativa.
🇬🇧|🇺🇸 This week, I wrote this entry on the Spanish Institute for Education Assessment's blog.
🇫🇷 Cette semaine, j'ai écrit cet article dans le blog de l'Institute Espagnol d'Évaluation Éducative.
#xl8 #machinetranslation #ai #foreignlanguage #languageteaching #languagelearning

http://blog.intef.es/inee/2023/02/23/traduccion-en-linea-en-la-ensenanza-de-lenguas-extranjeras/

RT @andreabozen
#languageteaching #Curriculum #languages @EuracLing https://twitter.com/CoE_Education/status/1627599039473541120

Of course, in terms of cheating, technologies such as the #ChatGPT will put teachers in front of new difficulties. But what about the new possibilities? This article presents some ideas for (foreign-) #languageteaching. https://unterrichten.digital/2023/01/20/chatgpt-unterricht-fremdsprachen/ #twlz #twitterlehrerzimmer

"Online Education as a Discipline" (2021) was the culmination of 25 years, and has been read by nearly 7,000 teachers and researchers worldwide at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353073973 and https://www.academia.edu/45386298
At ResearchGate there have been 15 recommendations, and they found a citation to the article in a new book by the British Council, Language Teaching Experiences during Covid-19, available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367077519
Educators and scholars in all fields should find the article informative. It has been cited mostly in reference to Emergency Remote Teaching during the pandemic, but it actually goes way beyond that issue to the role of academics in society, providing many definitions.

🦣 group for you: @OnlineEducation

#OnlineLearning #OnlineTeaching #DistanceEducation #OnlineEducation #BlendedLearning #OpenAccess #Education #HigherEducation #AcademicMastodon #ScholarlyCommunications #Japan #India #LanguageTeaching #EmergencyRemoteTeaching

More slides from the presentation "Bilingualism for the Individual, Family, and Society" https://www.academia.edu/71334694/Bilingualism_for_the_Individual_Family_and_Society

The 🦣 group @Bilingualism is growing. You join it like you follow someone, then you receive or share posts with that address. The chirp.social groups are nicely designed, so I have also set up one for Online Education. You can scroll through all the posts to the Bilingualism 🦣 group at https://chirp.social/@Bilingualism/shared

#Bilingualism #Bilingual #multilingualism #multiculturalism #LanguageEducation #LanguageTeaching #HigherEducation #HigherEd #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #AcademicToots #ScholarlyCommunications @jalt
@linguistics

Japancasting Episode 18: "Bangladesh Hospital Report in English and Japanese"
Osaka Jogakuin College (OJC) students report on their visit to #Chittagong, #Bangladesh. OJC students contributed to start a charitable children's #hospital ward. These students speak bilingually, so it provides a lesson in either #Japanese or #English as a Foreign #Language. After the students’ presentation, I interviewed a student. That script is available for English learners to read while listening, in the blog post by Parveen Sharma at https://eklavyaparv.com/edusomedia/japancasting-podcast/575-bangladesh-hospital-report-in-english-and-japanese
Listen to this #podcast
at, for example, https://open.spotify.com/episode/5YDezlvREpb49mSSlyvnro or https://hubhopper.com/episode/ep18japancastingbangladesh-hospital-report-in-english-and-japanese-1672254300
While Bangladesh was struggling to develop, Japanese students were able to develop international social consciousness and, as a result, greater self-awareness.
All #Japancasting episodes and related readings are linked from https://japanned.hcommons.org/multimedia

#podcasting #Japan #OER #EFL #LanguageTeaching
@jalt

@OnlineEducation @Bilingualism @linguistics @edutooter

Regarding #translanguaging vs. code-switching between languages, Rafi Saleh in Bangladesh, who did his PhD in Australia on translanguaging, informed me: "According to code-switching theorists, a bilingual has two linguistic systems, whereas a monolingual has one. For translanguaging theorists, both bilingual and monolingual people have one linguistic system, but bilingual people's systems are more complex, and they learn to divide the system into two for external forces rather than linguistic reasons."
This accords with my view of always-on bilingual mode. The pictures show my proposed paradigm shift from a conventional #ForeignLanguageTeaching model to a #developmental #bilingual perspective.

Join the 🦣 group @Bilingualism to see & share posts.

Readings: https://japanned.hcommons.org/bilingualism

#bilingualism #BilingualEducation #multilingualism #multiculturalism #SecondLanguageAcquisition #LanguageEducation #LanguageTeaching

@EffieKapnoula @natalieroxburgh @shakil_prof

@linguistics @edutooter