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It tracks: your L1 affects how you read
A major new dataset reveals interesting differences between how readers from 19 L1 backgrounds navigate English text
#ELT #TldrELT #SLA #ReadingResearch #EyeTracking #Multilingualism
tldrelt.com/2026/04/16/it-tracks-you...
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Dictation: ‘it may be used against you’
A forensic-linguistic study reveals how a “verbatim” transcript became the sole basis for a life sentence.
#ELT #TldrELT #ForensicLinguistics #AppliedLinguistics #LanguageIdeologies…
tldrelt.com/2026/04/14/dictation-it-...
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Blink & You’ll Miss It: Eye‑Tracking and Text Difficulty
A new eye-tracking study shows that the factors making a text “hard” for L2 readers are surprisingly simple
#ELT #TldrELT #L2Reading #Readability…
tldrelt.com/2026/04/09/blink-youll-m...
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Pride & Prejudice & Plurilingualism
A new study suggests that pride – not proficiency – is the real engine of multilingual motivation
#ELT #TldrELT #Multilingualism #LanguageIdentity #Motivation #AppliedLinguistics
tldrelt.com/2026/04/07/pride-prejudi...
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Native Speakerism: When “Sounding Right” Outweighs Being Right.
- It appears as if accent, not linguistic accuracy, drives people's perceptions of teachers
#ELT #TldrELT #GlobalEnglishes #TeacherIdentity…
tldrelt.com/2026/04/02/native-speake...
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Thinking Out Loud… Literally: What Multilingual Minds Reveal
A new study shows what multilingual learners reveal when we let them think out loud—in all their languages
#ELT #TldrELT #MultilingualEducation…
tldrelt.com/2026/03/31/thinking-out-...
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Trust Me, I’m a Teacher
A new psychology study has found that when trust signals get crossed, people start performing rather than participating — a pattern that feels familiar in the classroom.
#ELT #TldrELT #TeacherIdentity #ClassroomDynamics…
https://tldrelt.com/2026/03/26/trust-me-im-a-teacher/
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Is EAP really as inclusive as we assume — or are we missing something crucial beneath the surface?
#ELT #TldrELT #EAP #HigherEducation #Inclusion #AcademicLiteracies
tldrelt.com/2026/03/24/whose-english...
Screens are ubiquitous, but do help or hinder young children as they learn to communicate?
#ELT #TldrELT #LanguageDevelopment #ScreenTime
tldrelt.com/2025/02/13/p...
Almost every language follows a curious mathematical pattern which governs the relationship between word frequencies.
#ELT #TldrELT #LanguageLearning #Vocabulary #WordFrequency
tldrelt.com/2025/01/07/z...
