Karen Forbes
@karenforbes.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Second Language Education at the University of Cambridge. Former languages teacher. Interested in multilingualism, identity, language learning strategies, EAL and much more! Webpage: https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/forbes/
I had a fantastic few days learning from the MULTIWRITE team at the University of Oslo @uio.no ! A pleasure to be on the advisory board for such an important project. Congrats to Hildegunn Dirdal and team!
November 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I had a fantastic few days learning from the MULTIWRITE team at the University of Oslo @uio.no ! A pleasure to be on the advisory board for such an important project. Congrats to Hildegunn Dirdal and team!
Delighted to have been a part of this project with my former PhD student Xinran Wu, now Assistant Professor at Xiamen University 🌟 A fantastic analysis of the role of time and space in multilingual identity development in the Modern Language Journal: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>The Modern Language Journal</em> | NFMLTA Journal | Wiley Online Library
The dynamic property and developmental trajectory of language learners’ multilingual identity (MI), which concerns one's self-perception as a multilingual learner and user, have attracted increasing ...
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November 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Delighted to have been a part of this project with my former PhD student Xinran Wu, now Assistant Professor at Xiamen University 🌟 A fantastic analysis of the role of time and space in multilingual identity development in the Modern Language Journal: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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What effect do school policies have on uptake and achievement in languages at Key Stage 4?
If you are interested to learn more, read @karenforbes.bsky.social article as well as Zhu Hua, Elin Arfon and Ann-Marie Hunter’s article
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rll...
If you are interested to learn more, read @karenforbes.bsky.social article as well as Zhu Hua, Elin Arfon and Ann-Marie Hunter’s article
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rll...
Language Education in the Curriculum
Explore the article collection: Language Education in the Curriculum. Published in The Language Learning Journal.
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October 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
What effect do school policies have on uptake and achievement in languages at Key Stage 4?
If you are interested to learn more, read @karenforbes.bsky.social article as well as Zhu Hua, Elin Arfon and Ann-Marie Hunter’s article
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rll...
If you are interested to learn more, read @karenforbes.bsky.social article as well as Zhu Hua, Elin Arfon and Ann-Marie Hunter’s article
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rll...
Looking forward to contributing to this seminar on 'Professional agency & language policy in the context of the Curriculum and Assessment Review' @camedfac.bsky.social on 30th Oct with Norbert Pachler, @wendya-b.bsky.social @zhu-hua.bsky.social @cforsdick.bsky.social and others. In-person & online ⬇️
October 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Looking forward to contributing to this seminar on 'Professional agency & language policy in the context of the Curriculum and Assessment Review' @camedfac.bsky.social on 30th Oct with Norbert Pachler, @wendya-b.bsky.social @zhu-hua.bsky.social @cforsdick.bsky.social and others. In-person & online ⬇️
Reposted by Karen Forbes
Students from less wealthy backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a foreign language to GCSE is considered optional – and not necessarily even encouraged – new research by @karenforbes.bsky.social shows.
Read more: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/poor...
Read more: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/poor...
Poorer students more likely to miss out on studying a language at GCSE
Students from less wealthy backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a language to GCSE is treated as optional – and not necessarily strongly encouraged – new research shows.
content.educ.cam.ac.uk
October 2, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Students from less wealthy backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a foreign language to GCSE is considered optional – and not necessarily even encouraged – new research by @karenforbes.bsky.social shows.
Read more: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/poor...
Read more: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/poor...
Very happy to share this article exploring the influence of school-level curriculum policies on both uptake and attainment in GCSE modern languages in England @camedfac.bsky.social Freely available to download - key points below ⬇️ (1/6)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Promoting modern languages beyond the compulsory stage: exploring the relationship between school-level curriculum policy, GCSE uptake and attainment in England
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October 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Very happy to share this article exploring the influence of school-level curriculum policies on both uptake and attainment in GCSE modern languages in England @camedfac.bsky.social Freely available to download - key points below ⬇️ (1/6)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
And it’s down to the other end of the country for #BERA2025 at the University of Sussex! Looking forward to presenting tomorrow morning in session P3.23 (Leadership for Linguistic and Cultural Diversity).
September 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
And it’s down to the other end of the country for #BERA2025 at the University of Sussex! Looking forward to presenting tomorrow morning in session P3.23 (Leadership for Linguistic and Cultural Diversity).
Had an amazing time at #BAAL2025 in Glasgow! Great to (re)connect with colleagues and attend so many brilliant talks. Huge congrats to the organising committee for being such fab hosts 😃
September 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Had an amazing time at #BAAL2025 in Glasgow! Great to (re)connect with colleagues and attend so many brilliant talks. Huge congrats to the organising committee for being such fab hosts 😃
Very happy to see this paper come out which builds on our work on multilingual identity @camedfac.bsky.social 😊 It's open access so free to download - brief overview in thread below ⬇️
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Willingness to identify: an exploration of the factors that influence secondary school students’ willingness to identify as multilingual
For decades researchers have debated the criteria for identifying someone as multilingual; however, little is known about how individuals, and particularly school-aged students, subjectively identi...
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September 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Very happy to see this paper come out which builds on our work on multilingual identity @camedfac.bsky.social 😊 It's open access so free to download - brief overview in thread below ⬇️
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Really enjoyed my first experience of Swedish PhD examination yesterday @linneuni.bsky.social Huge congratulations to Dr Legutko and her supervisors 🎉
May 31, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Really enjoyed my first experience of Swedish PhD examination yesterday @linneuni.bsky.social Huge congratulations to Dr Legutko and her supervisors 🎉
Always lovely to be back @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social 😊
May 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Always lovely to be back @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social 😊
Excited to see this come out - it extends the application of our work on participative multilingual identity construction to higher education contexts @camedfac.bsky.social. Free to download here: www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/15...
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April 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Excited to see this come out - it extends the application of our work on participative multilingual identity construction to higher education contexts @camedfac.bsky.social. Free to download here: www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/15...
Gutted to see Modern Languages under threat at Cardiff - please consider signing and sharing!
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January 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Delighted to see this paper come out from Zehui Yang's doctoral research. Such an important and timely topic! It focuses on an identity-based approach to enhancing the agency of non-native English speaking teachers (of English). Freely available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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January 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Delighted to see this paper come out from Zehui Yang's doctoral research. Such an important and timely topic! It focuses on an identity-based approach to enhancing the agency of non-native English speaking teachers (of English). Freely available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
And with that, the brain is being switched off and the out of office is being switched on! Everything else is a 2025 problem. Wishing everyone a lovely festive break 🎄
December 20, 2024 at 6:09 PM
And with that, the brain is being switched off and the out of office is being switched on! Everything else is a 2025 problem. Wishing everyone a lovely festive break 🎄
And the award for festive typo of the day goes to… “elf-regulation” 🤣
a man in a green elf costume is standing in front of a shelf .
ALT: a man in a green elf costume is standing in front of a shelf .
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December 20, 2024 at 10:28 AM
And the award for festive typo of the day goes to… “elf-regulation” 🤣
Love a world cloud! Thanks Scholar Goggler 😀 scholargoggler.com
November 16, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Love a world cloud! Thanks Scholar Goggler 😀 scholargoggler.com
Hello! 👋 I’m new to the neighbourhood and looking forward to rebuilding the community here. Interested in all things language and education-related 🙂
November 16, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Hello! 👋 I’m new to the neighbourhood and looking forward to rebuilding the community here. Interested in all things language and education-related 🙂