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Am excited about this forthcoming chapter, exemplifying #LinguisticallyResponsive instruction based on research and teaching I've done at #UBC #VantageCollege. Response to workshops at #BCTEAL and #UVic have been positive! The abstract: One of the key challenges novice readers and writers have with English academic texts is recognizing and reproducing the abstract concepts of academia. Where non-academic texts tend to describe actions with verb-centred description, academic texts typically shift towards abstracted noun groups to represent phenomena that can be studied and evaluated objectively (Liardét 2016). The shift to nouns is known as nominalization and is the most common type of grammatical metaphor: concepts moving across grammatical categories towards abstraction (Halliday 2009). Concepts that manifest as expected forms (actions as verbs; people, places and things as nouns) are considered congruent and are close to reality, whereas shifts away from the concrete to the abstract are metaphoric. Metaphoric forms are also used for logic (e.g. showing condition without if or causation without because) and being polite (e.g. giving instructions with a polite question). The underlying premise is the same: to make explicit the shifts between congruent reality and metaphoric representations that might otherwise remain opaque to novice scholars developing their academic English language skills. Academic English instruction that engages with the phenomenon of grammatical metaphor enables novice scholars to both recognize and manipulate linguistic forms to suit the communicative context.  (Walsh Marr, 2024) #praxis #EAP

🎉 Exciting News! 🎉 Our latest research paper, "Exploring the Impact of Screencast-Based Ipsative Assessment on EFL Students’ Writing Development," has just been published in Language Testing in Asia (Scopus Q1) Published by Springer.📚 This study investigated how combining screencast technology with ipsative assessment (IA) can transform English writing feedback. By providing personalized, detailed feedback, we found that students were more engaged in self-assessment, enhanced their self-regulation skills, and felt supported throughout the learning process. 🖥️✍️ Take a look at our article! https://lnkd.in/dv7ncBia

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The top 15 Scopus Indexed Journals in English Literature. 1. English Historical Review -(OXFORD) The English Historical Review publishes original and high-quality historical research. There is no ‘typical’ EHR article. Still, this journal provides some guidance (check the scope and qualities by checking the journal page) the editors look for in current article submissions and that they are keen to encourage in future ones. 2. Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters) Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters) is an international journal that presents compact reports of significant, original, and timely research reflecting progress in metallurgy, materials science, and engineering, including materials physics, physical metallurgy, and process metallurgy. Coverage extends to mining and ore dressing, production metallurgy, foundry, metalworking, testing methods, powder metallurgy, composites, welding and joining, oxidation, and corrosion. Ezoic 3. ASIATIC: IITUM Journal of English Language & Literature Asiatic is the very first international journal on English writings by Asian writers and writers of Asian origin, currently being the only one of its kind. It aims to publish high-quality research and outstanding creative works combining the broad fields of literature and linguistics on the same intellectual platform. 4. English for Specific Purposes English For Specific Purposes is an international peer-reviewed journal that welcomes submissions from across the world. Authors are encouraged to submit articles and research/discussion notes on topics relevant to the teaching and learning of discourse for specific communities: academic, occupational, or otherwise specialized. 5. The Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE) The Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE) is a national professional association established and supported by state and territory English teaching associations. Together this journal provides a national voice with local impact, strengthens professional connections and collaborates to influence the teaching of English in Australia. 6. English in Education (Wiley) English in Education, the academic journal of the National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE), publishes papers and articles that report on research related to all aspects of English teaching from early years to university and later life. The journal welcomes articles from the United Kingdom and from other nations where English language and literature are part of the school and Higher Education curriculum and are taught to mother-tongue English speakers. Ezoic 7. English Language & Linguistics – Cambridge Core English Language and Linguistics, published three times a year, is an international journal which focuses on the description of the English language within the framework of contemporary linguistics.

Alhamdulillah! I'm so thankful for another achievement! My second research article, titled "Role of Technology in Learning English as A Second Language at Undergraduate Level" got published in the international journal "Advances in Social Behaviour Research," Volume 5 on January 24, 2024. Huge thanks to my fantastic teacher and mentor, Sir Dr Abdullah Laghari. I couldn't have reached this milestone without your help!🌸 #research #article #articlewriting #linguistics #english Check it out here!

TOC: Chinese Language and Discourse: Vol. 15, No. 2 (2024): 2024. v, 138 pp. Table of Contents Introduction: Translanguaging and multimodality for Chinese discourse analysis in the context of teaching and learning Qi Zhang | pp. 155–163 Articles Digital multimodal composing as a translanguaging space: Understanding students’ initial experiences and challenges Danping Wang | pp. 164–187 Co-constructing translanguaging space to facilitate participation in a novice CFL classroom Jiaxin Tian | pp. 188–217 Translanguaging learning strategies (TLS): A n

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Heading down to London today to join THE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION at Senate House to discuss the impact of AI on English teaching. Here are three things I’ll be exploring: 1️⃣ We spend too much energy fighting plagiarism. We’re looking in the wrong direction. Better to think about how students can maximise their intellect by using AI as an ideation and planning tool which frees cognitive surplus to invest in thinking big thoughts. 2️⃣ It will be the linguists who conquer the human/AI hybrid world. Not the computer scientists. This is why I prefer the term prompt psychology to prompt engineering. Compare it to biology. You don’t need to understand the complexities of cellular organisms to influence others. 3️⃣ However: understanding how a transformer model works helps to understand how to break it out of its predictive nature through creative prompting. What do you think? Am I on the right track? Some influencers believe only those with a PhD in computer science have the right to teach others about how to use AI. Funnily enough I strongly disagree. One thing’s for sure. My Literature degree suddenly makes a lot more sense.

Thanks to the Foreign Language Annals for funding and publishing my empirical article, Pedagogical translation for reading comprehension in mixed HL‐L2 secondary classrooms. You can read it here: https://lnkd.in/gs4CUq8h #heritagelanguage #languageteaching #translation

Conformity of translation academic course outline with market requirements What is clear in the performance of the translation alumni is that many underperform the market. This comes from the fact that the translation course outlines do not align with the market requirements. The alumni are expected to go beyond their academic background and deliver a professional product; but how? Does each bachelor need to continue to higher education? Not necessarily. Maybe the story is simple. The initial one or two years of the academic program could go to the generalities of language learning and translation process. Since the translation skill is reinforced through experience, the rest of the course outline can be dedicated to a designated field based on the personal taste of the students in line with the market needs. A part of theory-based courses could be ignored for a more important goal. During the latter two years, the students would tackle various challenges to learn how to scale through the barriers. This helps the students step into the market stronger after completing the program and reduces the professional gap. The other alternative is to have two programs on theory and practice separately. The theory-based one for those interested in teaching, and the latter for those seeking practical dimensions of translation. Further to personal struggle, the future achievements of the alumni fall also on those who outline the courses and are expected to consider the market realities that weigh practice more than theory. This affirms development of the academic programs to be more project-based. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #translation #language #language_learning #theory #practice #academic_program #challenge #student #syllabus #translation_market #requirement #professional #professionalism #translation_project