@MiShee54

Linguist at @UniofNewcastle, live-tweeter and lover of the linguistic! If you like me, you'll love @InMFL @NCL_Langling

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Joined November 2015
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🏆Congratulations to @MiShee54 and the entire project team for winning the 'Inclusive Education, Lifelong Learning & CPD' Award! This brilliant project is making the case for the place of linguistics in school-based language teaching. #EngageAwards2025
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LSP Policy Journal@LSPjournal3 Dec 2024
🌟 As you know, our special collection: Languages in UK Education co-edited by @WendyBennett21 & @charlesforsdick is now out! We’re excited to share that new policy papers will be released weekly. Stay tuned for updates! lspjournal.com/
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Colin Phillips@ColinPhillips216 Dec 2024
More opportunities to join us in Oxford! We have an open-rank position in Phonetics, to coincide with our move into the amazing Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. The new Phonetics Lab sits above a concert hall - both acoustically shielded! ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2024…
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LSP Policy Journal@LSPjournal3 Dec 2024
📖 How can linguistics transform the way we teach languages in UK schools? A new paper in our special collection by Anna Havinga et al. explores how linguistics can revitalise the curriculum, boost motivation, & address the UK’s 'languages crisis.' 🧵👇lspjournal.com/post/addressi…
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The Express Yourself: North East Festival of Languages is open for registrations for FREE events, activities and resources available January to March 2025 to inspire children and young people in schools, community schools and groups. internationalnewcastle.org.u…
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Wendy Bennett@WendyBennett218 Nov 2024
Is this MFL’s ‘moment’ or will reforms hasten its decline? tes.com/magazine/news/genera…

Is this MFL’s ‘moment’ or will reforms hasten its decline?

Curriculum reforms offer a chance to boost the status of language teaching in schools, but there’s a risk they could do the opposite, say subject experts

tes.com
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« La société française entretient une forme d’insécurité linguistique peu propice aux apprentissages. La peur de la faute empêche l’écriture plus qu’elle ne la stimule. » theconversation.com/enseigne…

Enseignement du français et peur de la faute : des liaisons dangereuses

La société française entretient une forme d’insécurité linguistique peu propice aux apprentissages. La peur de la faute empêche l’écriture plus qu’elle ne la stimule.

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So cool, as always!
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Vous avez peut-être vu passer une vidéo intitulée "nos étudiants ne savent plus écrire" publiée il y a quelques jours. Ci-dessous, l'extrait d'un article du journal La Croix datant du 15 février 1951. On y retrouve les mêmes idées. Ce n'est pas pire aujourd'hui.
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Relaunched groups supporting primary and secondary language teachers in Newcastle (primary) and the North East (secondary). Find out more, sign up and get involved. Termly online meetings (next Primary session 25 Nov 3.45pm): internationalnewcastle.org.u…
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John Dickens@JohndickensSW22 Oct 2024
🚨The special needs system is on the brink of collapse. The government's spending watchdog will publish its own likely damning investigation this week But we’ve been chronicling the collapse for years. And I just want to set out how seriously bad things are … (mega 🧵)
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Devastating
Mare@WeekbladMare18 Oct 2024
BREAKING: Major overhaul at @LeidenHum: African & Latin American Studies to be axed; Chinese, Japanese, Korean merged into Asian Studies; French, German & Italian also merged into European Languages & Cultures. ‘People are definitely panicking about this.’ mareonline.nl/en/news/humani…

Humanities overhaul: African Studies to be axed, language and Asian programmes to merge

The Faculty of Humanities is facing a major overhaul: the board plans to scrap the bachelor’s programmes African Studies and Latin American Studies and to merge Chinese, Japanese, Korean and South...

mareonline.nl
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Anna Pineda@AnnaPinedaC16 Oct 2024
Ets parlant de català central o nord-occidental? Estem fent un estudi sobre un aspecte de la gramàtica del català i, si tens 10 minuts, et convidem a respondre aquest qüestionari: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… MOLTES GRÀCIES! (S'agraeix RT.)

Estudi sobre la llengua catalana

Benvinguts! Estem fent un estudi sobre alguns aspectes de la sintaxi del català. Si ets parlant nadiu, et demanem que participis en aquesta investigació, que té una durada aproximada de 10 minuts....

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Secondary languages teachers in Newcastle/NE register for the first meeting of the new secondary Newcastle Network at 6.30pm on 8th October with @HelenMyers (ALL) on the new GCSE curriculum and A Level curriculum: Registration link and information internationalnewcastle.org.u…
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Steven Fawkes@StevenFawkes10 Sep 2024
Not long now to the Day of Languages! Don't forget the annual Writing competition from @ALL4language open to schools all over the UK! all-languages.org.uk/events/…

European Day of Languages Annual Competition for Schools in the UK - Association for Language...

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This was a really insightful and inspiring event - thank you to everyone! #MFLTwitterati
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Lynne SCILT@Lynne_SCILT30 Aug 2024
I'm really looking forward to reading a journal submission from one of our current #LangsLeadScot participants who joined this event remotely 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #CriticalWriting #BuildingCapacity #ResearchInformed #LanguagesMatter #LeadershipMatters
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Very much enjoyed it!
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