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Huy Phung
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🔎 Research (SLA/TBLT) 💬 Teach (Languages) 🪄 Design (HCD+)
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scientificdiscovery.dev
Big new blogpost!

My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.

--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
screenshot of my post
December 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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andrew.heiss.phd
Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...
Will you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course in the future? No. Why won’t you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course? These tools are useful for coding (see this for my personal take on this). However, they’re only useful if you know what you’re doing first. If you skip the learning-the-process-of-writing-code step and just copy/paste output from ChatGPT, you will not learn. You cannot learn. You cannot improve. You will not understand the code. In that post, it warns that you cannot use it as a beginner: …to use Databot effectively and safely, you still need the skills of a data scientist: background and domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability. There is no LLM-based shortcut to those skills. You cannot LLM your way into domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, or coding ability. The only way to gain domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability is to struggle. To get errors. To google those errors. To look over the documentation. To copy/paste your own code and adapt it for different purposes. To explore messy datasets. To struggle to clean those datasets. To spend an hour looking for a missing comma. This isn’t a form of programming hazing, like “I had to walk to school uphill both ways in the snow and now you must too.” It’s the actual process of learning and growing and developing and improving. You’ve gotta struggle. This Tumblr post puts it well (it’s about art specifically, but it applies to coding and data analysis too): Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner’s roadblock to art isn’t even technical skill it’s frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach’s capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That’s how you build on the technical skill. Throw that “won’t even start because I’m afraid it won’t be perfect” shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck. (The original post has disappeared, but here’s a reblog.) It’s hard, but struggling is the only way to learn anything. You might not enjoy code as much as Williams does (or I do), but there’s still value in maintaining codings skills as you improve and learn more. You don’t want your skills to atrophy. As I discuss here, when I do use LLMs for coding-related tasks, I purposely throw as much friction into the process as possible: To avoid falling into over-reliance on LLM-assisted code help, I add as much friction into my workflow as possible. I only use GitHub Copilot and Claude in the browser, not through the chat sidebar in Positron or Visual Studio Code. I treat the code it generates like random answers from StackOverflow or blog posts and generally rewrite it completely. I disable the inline LLM-based auto complete in text editors. For routine tasks like generating {roxygen2} documentation scaffolding for functions, I use the {chores} package, which requires a bunch of pointing and clicking to use. Even though I use Positron, I purposely do not use either Positron Assistant or Databot. I have them disabled. So in the end, for pedagogical reasons, I don’t foresee me incorporating LLMs into this class. I’m pedagogically opposed to it. I’m facing all sorts of external pressure to do it, but I’m resisting. You’ve got to learn first.
December 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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danielrisbell.bsky.social
The head of the Korean agency that develops the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT or 수능), a national college entrance exam, resigned due to the recent English language section being too difficult.

www.koreaherald.com/article/1063...
Suneung agency chief resigns over too-difficult English exam
The chief official in charge of the administration of the country's annual national college entrance exam stepped down Wednesday to take responsibility for the
www.koreaherald.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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jimmckinley.bsky.social
New, OPEN ACCESS, Cambridge Elements in Language Teaching series... Please download your free copy today! doi.org/10.1017/9781...

"Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)"

by Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe (University of the Basque Country)
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
doi.org
November 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
The recording is now available so that you can confirm that I indeed have a German accent and color-match my outfits with my Zoom background.

youtu.be/YL0co26ng-g?...
October 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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danielrisbell.bsky.social
Just throwing AI at education doesn't seem to work. ", but with AI" is in policy and attracting investments everywhere these days. I hope other countries can learn from Korea's unfortunate experience.

restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea
South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.
restofworld.org
October 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈

You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...
Causal inference interest group, supported by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies Seminar series 20th October 2025, 3pm BST (UTC+1) "Making rigorous causal inference more mainstream" Julia Rohrer, Leipzig University Sign up to attend at tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRohrer
October 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
huyphung.bsky.social
Reading Circle = Literature x TBLT
October 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
Looks like my favorite paper on the age trajectory of happiness is finally out!!! So happy for the authors. Go check it out, it’s great.
September 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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danielrisbell.bsky.social
*please share widely*

My department (Second Language Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) is hiring a corpus linguist who conducts research on second languages. Great place to teach (2/2 load) and do research! See link for more details:

go.hawaii.edu/mGc
Assistant Professor (Second Language Corpus Linguistics)
Title: Assistant Professor (Second Language Corpus Linguistics)Hiring Unit: College of Arts, Languages & Letters/Department of Second Language StudiesLocation: University of Hawaii at ManoaDate Posted...
go.hawaii.edu
September 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
Fun article about “outsider” scientists and their breakthroughs.

“Academia filters most funding, publishing, and hiring decisions through senior insiders, which favors ideas within existing paradigms.”

worksinprogress.co/issue/why-sc...
Why science needs outsiders - Works in Progress Magazine
Science has forgotten that the greatest breakthroughs often come from outsiders who are able to take a fresh perspective.
worksinprogress.co
September 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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charlenep.bsky.social
A reminder that abstracts for the hybrid symposium on the quantitative/qualitative divide in applied linguistics are due August 30. corpus.cal.msu.edu/1052-2/
Hybrid symposium on the quantitative/qualitative divide in applied linguistics: Call for papers – Second Language Studies Corpus Lab
corpus.cal.msu.edu
August 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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w-joel-schneider.bsky.social
Now on CRAN, ggdiagram is a #ggplot2 extension that draws diagrams programmatically in #Rstats. Allows for precise control in how objects, labels, and equations are placed in relation to each other.
wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/ar...
An arrow with a LaTeX equation Trigonometric functions and a unit circle A bivariate change model with structured residuals A hierarchical model of cognitive abilities
August 20, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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danielrisbell.bsky.social
I'm enjoying this new article by Christopher Jenks that highlights some positives of English as a global language.

One neat thread Jenks discusses is the role of English in the spread of the Korean Wave. I'd add that Korean-American KOR/ENG bilinguals have played a huge role in K-pop's spread
World Englishes, heterodoxy, and applied linguistics
It is understandable that many people find it challenging to adopt a positive moral position with regard to English and its role in the world. The language is used in many contexts and situations to ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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kmcmanus.bsky.social
New paper: Comparing #lab-based and #remote data collection methods in second #language acquisition research. A close #replication study (McManus et al., in Research Methods in Applied #Linguistics) authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYuB9sT3h... #langsky #lingsky #researchmethods #online
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August 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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charlenep.bsky.social
Please consider submitting a proposal to our hybrid symposium in October on the quant/qual divide in applied linguistics.
corpus.cal.msu.edu/1052-2/
July 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
huyphung.bsky.social
A Text-Driven TBLT Approach to Materials Development go.viettblt.com/hitomi
July 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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danielrisbell.bsky.social
Over the last year, I've been investigating Duolingo English Test preparation and washback with a multilingual team of researchers at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. This guest blog post on DET's Test Center blog shares some of our findings and general advice for test takers.
The washback effect: How tests shape the way we study English
New research explores what test prep looks like around the world—and how thoughtful test design can support meaningful learning.
blog.englishtest.duolingo.com
June 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
huyphung.bsky.social
This workshop series explores the intersection of theory and practice in Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT), with a special focus on materials development as a space for productive and meaningful knowledge exchange.
May 28, 2025 at 5:44 AM
huyphung.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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panosathanas.bsky.social
A computational analysis of lexical elaboration across languages | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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May 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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sjkiss.bsky.social
"Of course there's an R package to make academic posters in Markdown". *chuckles, shakes head* #rstats github.com/brentthorne/...
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Use RMarkdown to generate PDF Conference Posters via HTML - brentthorne/posterdown
github.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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profandyfield.com
Jasp textbook site is now live: discoverjasp.com. @sagepub.com
DSuJ
discoverjasp.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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meryenda.bsky.social
Starting #tblt2025 conference with Marta Gonzalez-Lloret and our talk on the effects of collaborative gaming in WTC and task engagement - ending the talk with a shout out to #CALICO2025 in San Diego 🌴☀️👩🏻‍💻
calico.org/calico-2025/
April 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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meryenda.bsky.social
We can’t wait to see you at the 2025 CALICO conference this May!
🕊️Register by April 25 to get the early bird rate
🏨 Hotel rooms are filling fast—book ASAP! On-campus dorms are also available.
📅Check out the preliminary agenda & lodging details here: calico.org/calico-2025/. See you in San Diego!
March 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM