New Cambridge Element, Cognitive Contact Linguistics, by Julia Landmann, out now! Read #OpenAccess at
https://cup.org/42gQFJB

#LangSky 🐦🐦

Big New Analysis Of What Works In Reading Instruction For Older Readers – Here’s What It Says Interventions for students with reading difficulties in Grades 4-12: A systematic review and meta-analysis is a new study that’s open access. Like much education research, it’s w…

Big New Analysis Of What Works In Reading Instruction For Older Readers – Here’s What It Says larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/04/17/b...

Semantic Network of OECS articles.

Reminder! The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) hosts summaries of what we know vs don't about a host of fascinating issues. All freely available.

What a terrific alternative to doomscrolling: learning about (e.g.) The Mind-Body problem, Delusion, or Free Will.

oecs.mit.edu

This Week’s Free & Useful Artificial Intelligence Tools For The Classroom At least, for now, I’m going to make this a weekly feature which will highlight additions to THE BEST NEW – & FREE – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS THAT COULD BE USED IN THE CLASSRO…

This Week’s Free & Useful Artificial Intelligence Tools For The Classroom larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/04/13/t...

(PDF) AI-Generated Feedback in English Writing Instruction for Language Learners: A Systematic Review PDF | This systematic review examines 22 studies (2024-2025) on the use of generative AI, primarily ChatGPT, for providing feedback in English writing... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Authentic Writing in the Age of AI Collaboration and choice can help students learn the foundations of good writing without relying on AI for assistance.

www.edutopia.org/article/teac...

"Peace Train" featuring Yusuf / Cat Stevens | Playing For Change | Song Around The World YouTube video by Playing For Change

Peace Train…let’s get this thing moving…

Rare video: watch a meteorite hit the Moon in real time 🌕☄️

Or put "No Dark Things" (or any track really...) from Heaven Up Here on headphones, on loud, in the dark, and marvel at the creative power that resonates through your head.

‘Party is over’ for Australian international education Government strategy to prioritise value over volume appears to be working as commencements and enrolments trend down

‘Party is over’ for Australian international education www.timeshighereducation.com/news/party-o...

Japan's key tech workers are now cheaper than Malaysia's Report shows Malaysian chip and data center boom has lifted salaries past Japanese counterparts

asia.nikkei.com/business/tec...

Daikon?

Vietnamese increasingly choose to 'study abroad' at local universities International programs grow as costs, stricter visa rules reshape overseas education ambitions

asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/as...

The Drop in International Students Last Year Was Worse Than We Thought Visa issuances nosedived 36 percent, possibly reflecting weakening global interest in studying in the United States.

NEW: The bad news about international-student enrollments at American colleges just got worse. An exclusive @chronicle.com analysis of just-released State Department data shows new visa issuances in the summer of 2025 dropped by more than a third. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Immigrant Crime in Japan Is Dropping as Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Soars - Unseen Japan Right-wingers in Japan claim that the country is becoming more unsafe due to immigrants. The data doesn't back that up.

Judging by online rhetoric and polls, you'd conclude that foreign residents are making Japan less safe. However, an analysis of data by a major newspaper shows that immigrant crime is plummeting even as the hate increases.

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How does university support improve international students’ well-being? The host university is one of the most fundamental sources of social support for international students, giving them a sense of belonging and determin...

How does university support improve international students’ well-being?
www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

Japanese language schools lag behind despite rise in foreigners living in Japan Only 64 schools nationwide have been accredited as Japanese Language Institutes. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Japanese language schools lag behind despite rise in foreigners living in Japan www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-as...

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Check out this recent @nature.com paper reporting a field experiment on X. It shows X's algorithm boosts conservative content and downranks traditional media—shifting users’ views on key issues. Switching to chronological doesn’t reverse the effect. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

West Japan city to make elementary, junior high school trips free in FY 2026 - The Mainichi NARUTO, Tokushima -- The city of Naruto in west Japan's Tokushima Prefecture will make school trips for municipal elementary and junior high schools f

May include international trips to Korea mainichi.jp/english/arti...

Article from Yomiuri Shimbun. JP headline: https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/20260216-GYT1T00086/

Tsukuba University in Ibaraki Prefecture has apologized after a professor posted to social media that "most foreign students who come to Japan are generally dim-witted troublemakers." The school is "investigating" whether the remarks violated school social media guidelines.

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

Japanese student suicides hit record high in 2025 | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News A Japanese government report shows that the number of suicides by students through high school hit an all-time high last year.

www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

Beautiful. Plum blossoms over cherry blossoms. And it's not even close.

New study on cognitive load shows it's not a single, stable thing that students carry through a lesson. It rises, falls, peaks, and interacts with motivation. 1/4

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Explore the most read research in Studies in Second Language Acquisition:
📚 https://cup.org/4qpCw7G

#linguistics

The Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) has recently been aligned with CEFR and will begin adding CEFR levels to score reports soon. It looks like JLPT N2 caps out at B2, while high enough scores on N1 can reach C1.

I like that the levels correspond to "Linguistic, Receptive".

#langsky

Figure 2. 2022 international student mobility network.

Navigating global trends: a longitudinal network analysis of international student mobility

Jeanette B. Ruiz, @pablomflores.phd and George A. Barnett

Open access → doi.org/10.1177/1028...

#StudentMobility #InternationalStudents #IntlEd #NetworkAnalysis

A Swimming Memorial Service held in Tokyo's Sumida River on March 10, 1985 in recognition of the 1000s who died when they leapt into the river during the firebombing 40 yrs prior

50 participants swam 500m in the frigid Sumida so as to "feel the coldness of that water firsthand and pray for peace"

Some really interesting reading in this - The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2025 www.edutopia.org/visual-essay... - Though no criteria for choosing these as the top 10.

This new book presents a framework for teaching second language and multilingual writing that integrates Concept-Based Language Instruction and Genre-Based Writing Pedagogy. buff.ly/sGFLgyU