I really enjoyed this conference - English Australia NSW PD Fest in Sydney

It's always great to join in on the fun at the annual TESOL Convention. This year it's in L.A.

Loving the kookaburra that has taken up residence in my backyard garden ♥️

Having a great time fishing in Narooma

CorpusMate v2.0 is here! New colour scheme, new search/sort/filter options, sentence length filters, improved translation function, new corpora, and more! Perfect for all your introductory Data-Driven Learning (DDL) needs!

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Its free for all! If you use this software, let me know!

SLRF 2025 - Call for Proposals Call for Proposals is open from January 1, 2025, to March 31, 2025.

#SLRF is back! To be hosted at Northern Arizona University later this year. Call for proposals open:

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For my fellow karateka! Training resumes 20th January. (Note: Tiger image courtesy of Gemini AI)

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Getting ready for Christmas ❤️

‘Amazing progress’: how regional schools are breaking the language barrier and helping students thrive Specially trained teachers have made a huge impact in regional Victoria, where the number of students from non-English-speaking backgrounds is growing Sign up for the Rural Network email newsletter At the beginning of the school year, the staff at Delacombe primary school in Ballarat, western Victoria, noticed a change in the demographics of prep students. More than one in six spoke a language other than English at home. “We were discussing the number of students we were noticing with an English as an additional language (EAL) background and how we were lacking in the expertise or focus on these students,” the principal, Scott Phillips, says. Sign up to receive Guardian Australia’s fortnightly Rural Network email newsletter Continue reading...

‘Amazing progress’: how regional schools are breaking the language barrier and helping students thrive

Falling enrolments and funding cuts force Australian universities to take stock The Australian Universities Accord offers a roadmap for reform, but there are major challenges ahead.

It's a challenging time to be an academic in Australia 😢

Sign the Petition Fight the Closure of Languages at the University of Wollongong

Let's save languages, linguistics and so much more at UOW! Please share with colleagues, friends and family to help save important disciplines from being cut! chng.it/JQ6cydvgqd

This past week, we travelled to Launceston, Tasmania to attend the 2024 annual conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia. Had a fantastic time presenting, meeting up with colleagues and mentoring early career researchers/presenters.