David M. Palfreyman
palfreym.bsky.social
David M. Palfreyman
@palfreym.bsky.social

I'm a language teacher, teacher educator and researcher, interested in multilingualism and social/cultural contexts.

Political science 38%
Education 20%

@chrisbenson.bsky.social As an interested outsider to the tech industry, I found Donato Capitella the clearest explainer I've yet heard on practicalai.fm Thank you both!
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This is the shiny new account for BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguistics), checking in before our next annual conference - organised by the fantastic local team at Glasgow @baal2025.bsky.social in September 2025

Please give us and them a follow!

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Full article: Knowledge, interaction and language beyond the EMI classroom: Business students preparing for work www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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One thing that happened to me once with Nvivo (or maybe it was Atlas.ti) was that I backed my project up in Dropbox so it would automatically sync with "the cloud"; but then the file got corrupted and *the corruption synced too*, making both copies unusable 🙈

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Venting to an AI chatbot can reduce negative feelings (like journaling) but it doesn’t increase perceived social support or reduce loneliness. iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
AI as your ally: The effects of AI‐assisted venting on negative affect and perceived social support
In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have made significant strides in generating human-like conversations. With AI's expanding capabilities in mimicking human interactions, its affo...
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