@BaxStephen

Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the Open University. Tweeting in a personal capacity...

Joined July 2017
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Big Qs for Theresa May who as Home Sec shut the Forensic Science Service in 2012 to privatise tests to firms such as Randox now accused of dodgy evidence in criminal cases
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LT: want to give a separate shout-out to this BBC world service programme which was broadcast yesterday--if you teach/study language and gender it's well worth a listen. bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvtb…

BBC World Service - The Why Factor, Men, Women and Language

Women apologise too much, men interrupt more. Are these stereotypes true?

bbc.co.uk
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Caroline Tagg@Carotagg21 Nov 2017
We're going to @TLANGProject's conference on Communication in the Multilingual City with our colloquium on mobilising resources across media and urban spaces! @terezaspilioti @anthrostream @FrankMonaghan Register here: shop.bham.ac.uk/conferences-…
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In 1989 people were saying Water Privatisation was a scam but they were just ignored and mocked by the newspapers. Well 28 years later, we see they were right all along.
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Do bilingual schools become middle class ghettos? International studies make uncomfortable reading for the Spanish digital.elgazette.com/novemb… #bilingual #English #Spain #ELLs #Englishlanguage #ELT #Tefl
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There’s even a maze on the back to “help Jeremy get to Number 10.”
Great #openaccess publication on English around the world, edited by my former #OpenUniversity colleague Beth Erling, with a contribution by another OU colleague @philipseargeant xitter.cf/RichardSmithELT/status…
Richard Smith - legacy account@RichardSmithELT17 Nov 2017
Open access - This seems a magnificent publication - just published I think teachingenglish.org.uk/sites…
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Good piece about pompous parliamentary language #sociolinguistics xitter.cf/JennyLewinJones/status…
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Readable and thought provoking discussion of being 'half Japanese' in Japan. Argues that "nobody living on the archipelago is 'Japanese Japanese' " #sociolinguistics #languageidentity xitter.cf/Futurealisreal/status/…
Mark Makino 【公式】@Futurealisreal17 Nov 2017
Excellent article on this topic, finally, after dozens of terrible ones japantimes.co.jp/community/2…

A son echoes his father’s questions about identity in Japan

‘Russo-Japanese’ Chuk Besher spent years researching Japan’s multicultural history. Much later, son Noah, 8, had a question: ‘What does ‘half’ mean?’

japantimes.co.jp
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What is happening in Yemen is a shocking disgrace, and Britain has part of the blame: "Yemen: a catastrophe that shames Britain" theguardian.com/world/commen…

The Guardian view on Yemen: a catastrophe that shames Britain | Editorial

Editorial: The world’s worst humanitarian crisis is deteriorating as a Saudi blockade prevents desperately needed food, fuel and medicine from entering the country. London’s unstinting support for...

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In our new report we compared voting records and expenses for 2016/17 in the House of Lords electoral-reform.org.uk/late…
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One of the authors being my former colleague Fumi Nakatsuhara at @crella_beds so it must be good :-) xitter.cf/ELTResearchers/status/…
ELT Researchers@ELTResearchers17 Nov 2017
Scoring Validity of the Aptis Speaking test: Investigating Fluency across Tasks and Levels of Proficiency: Tavakoli, Nakatsuhara and @anniem_hunter Interesting and insightful. A must-read! britishcouncil.org/exam/apti…
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Proud to be supporting #InternationalStudentsDay - here is my cross-party letter to the Prime Minister, signed by Shadow Home Secretary @HackneyAbbott and 111 MPs, calling on her to take international students out of the Home Office's net migration targets
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Replying to @itvpeston @pestononsunday @Peston @PhilipHammondUK
During the election campaign, Theresa May committed to £10 billion extra capital spending for the NHS over the parliament. Are you still committed to that? #AskHammond
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So what? theguardian.com/commentisfre…

So, what's the problem with 'so'? | David Shariatmadari

BBC Radio 4 listeners are fuming over an ‘unwelcome linguistic epidemic’. But it goes back as far as Beowulf, says Guardian writer and editor David Shariatmadari

theguardian.com
Useful stuff on Sketch Engine, the corpus tool. Correct URL link here: ow.ly/grxa30giEeK xitter.cf/perezparedes/status/93…
Prof Pascual Pérez-Paredes 🇪🇺 🇭🇰
@perezparedes17 Nov 2017
Learn more about Sketch Engine CQL – Corpus Query Languagehttp://ow.ly/grxa30giEeK
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Today we are hosting a major new report from @PeterHorrocks and @OpenUniversity, which explains the collapse in part-time learning and lists ways to tackle the crisis: hepi.ac.uk/2017/11/16/time-t…

It is time to tackle the part-time crisis - HEPI

HEPI is pleased to host this important contribution to the debate about the collapse in part-time higher education – and what to do about it – by the Vice-Chancellor of the UK’s largest university....

hepi.ac.uk
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One of the reasons I love Japan! Punctuality! "Apology after Japanese train departs 20 seconds early" bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-42…
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It's great to see that impact from the DOTS and #ICTREV projects (2008-2017) was presented at @OpenUniversity today! :) And the story continues... with workshops in six different countries in 2018 and the @ECMLCELV inventory: ecml.at/ECML-Programme/Progr… xitter.cf/UrsulaStickler/status/…
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