Luke Harding
@lukeharding.bsky.social
Professor of Applied Linguistics at Lancaster University
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Luke Harding
@lukeharding.bsky.social
· Nov 13
For new followers: I'm an academic at Lancaster University (UK) working in the area of applied linguistics. I'm also Head of the Department of Linguistics and English Language and will be posting news about all the activities going on there
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Congrats to guest editors Eunice Jang, Yasuyo Sawski & all authors on this blockbuster issue of #LanguageTesting on the AI revolution! It’s a hefty issue with 7 articles, an opening Editorial & an insightful post-script by @lukeharding.bsky.social. Now out here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/LTJ/curr...
October 28, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Congrats to guest editors Eunice Jang, Yasuyo Sawski & all authors on this blockbuster issue of #LanguageTesting on the AI revolution! It’s a hefty issue with 7 articles, an opening Editorial & an insightful post-script by @lukeharding.bsky.social. Now out here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/LTJ/curr...
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Language Testing Volume 42 Issue 4 is now available! The Special Issue of 2025: Advancing language assessment for teaching and learning in the era of the artificial intelligence #AI revolution: Promises and challenges journals.sagepub.com/toc/ltja/42/4
October 28, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Language Testing Volume 42 Issue 4 is now available! The Special Issue of 2025: Advancing language assessment for teaching and learning in the era of the artificial intelligence #AI revolution: Promises and challenges journals.sagepub.com/toc/ltja/42/4
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I am so pleased to announce that I have been awarded a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an... to undertake the project 'A Multi-Dimensional Understanding of the Digital Far Right'.
UKRI announces winners of £120 million Future Leaders Fellowships
Research into the causes of lung cancer and Alzheimer’s disease are among 77 projects to be funded by UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowships.
www.ukri.org
September 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I am so pleased to announce that I have been awarded a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an... to undertake the project 'A Multi-Dimensional Understanding of the Digital Far Right'.
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I am seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the ESRC-funded project 'Writing Tasks at School and University'.
The post is full-time and will run from 1st November 2025 to 31st January 2029. See below for a brief overview of the project.
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
The post is full-time and will run from 1st November 2025 to 31st January 2029. See below for a brief overview of the project.
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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September 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I am seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the ESRC-funded project 'Writing Tasks at School and University'.
The post is full-time and will run from 1st November 2025 to 31st January 2029. See below for a brief overview of the project.
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
The post is full-time and will run from 1st November 2025 to 31st January 2029. See below for a brief overview of the project.
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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Designed for the AI age, our new online course teaches real-world language analysis from one of the world’s leading corpus linguistics teams.
Watch the trailer and sign up: www.edx.org/learn/social...
Watch the trailer and sign up: www.edx.org/learn/social...
lancasteruniversity: Corpus linguistics and new technologies: data, language and society | edX
In an era of AI and big data, understanding language through data is essential. This hands-on course from Lancaster University—a global leader in corpus linguistics—teaches you to build, query, and an...
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August 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Designed for the AI age, our new online course teaches real-world language analysis from one of the world’s leading corpus linguistics teams.
Watch the trailer and sign up: www.edx.org/learn/social...
Watch the trailer and sign up: www.edx.org/learn/social...
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💡Highlights from Tuesday afternoon at #LancsSS25 with talks from @lukeharding.bsky.social on validity, AI and language testing & @jculpeper.bsky.social on using corpora to get an insight into Shakespeare’s language.
June 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
💡Highlights from Tuesday afternoon at #LancsSS25 with talks from @lukeharding.bsky.social on validity, AI and language testing & @jculpeper.bsky.social on using corpora to get an insight into Shakespeare’s language.
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Once a year we take our @lancslinguistics.bsky.social MA students for a trip to the Lakes that involves a little hiking, a little climbing, a little caving and a little ice cream. Once again we were incredibly lucky with the weather and everyone had a great day out and a day off from dissertations.
June 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Once a year we take our @lancslinguistics.bsky.social MA students for a trip to the Lakes that involves a little hiking, a little climbing, a little caving and a little ice cream. Once again we were incredibly lucky with the weather and everyone had a great day out and a day off from dissertations.
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We had a super day yesterday at the @lancslinguistics.bsky.social Research Colloquium with colleagues sharing a diverse range of research conducted in connection with Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster.
May 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
We had a super day yesterday at the @lancslinguistics.bsky.social Research Colloquium with colleagues sharing a diverse range of research conducted in connection with Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster.
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We are delighted to announce the 19th LAEL Postgraduate Conference, which will take place 19-20 June 2025. More info at: wp.lancs.ac.uk/laelpgconfer...
April 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
We are delighted to announce the 19th LAEL Postgraduate Conference, which will take place 19-20 June 2025. More info at: wp.lancs.ac.uk/laelpgconfer...
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We had a brilliant time at Lancaster University's public engagement festival, Campus in the City, yesterday! We engaged with 260 people in Morecambe with ultrasound, nasalance, accent quizzes, gender and language, and a grammar escape room! @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @phoneticslab.bsky.social
April 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We had a brilliant time at Lancaster University's public engagement festival, Campus in the City, yesterday! We engaged with 260 people in Morecambe with ultrasound, nasalance, accent quizzes, gender and language, and a grammar escape room! @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @phoneticslab.bsky.social
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We are excited to be at Campus in the City this week!
❗️Come and see a wide range of activities, from a language escape game to ultrasound imaging of the tongue during beatboxing!
➡️ Fri 11 April at More Music in Morecambe
#sparkyourcuriosity #CITC2025
❗️Come and see a wide range of activities, from a language escape game to ultrasound imaging of the tongue during beatboxing!
➡️ Fri 11 April at More Music in Morecambe
#sparkyourcuriosity #CITC2025
April 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We are excited to be at Campus in the City this week!
❗️Come and see a wide range of activities, from a language escape game to ultrasound imaging of the tongue during beatboxing!
➡️ Fri 11 April at More Music in Morecambe
#sparkyourcuriosity #CITC2025
❗️Come and see a wide range of activities, from a language escape game to ultrasound imaging of the tongue during beatboxing!
➡️ Fri 11 April at More Music in Morecambe
#sparkyourcuriosity #CITC2025
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I am deeply grateful to Aalborg University for a doctorate honoris causa and wonderful hospitality this week. Looking forward to collaborations with the Communication, Language and Discourse Research Group.
April 5, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I am deeply grateful to Aalborg University for a doctorate honoris causa and wonderful hospitality this week. Looking forward to collaborations with the Communication, Language and Discourse Research Group.
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We are delighted to have been ranked 3rd in the world for Linguistics by the QS World Subject Rankings 2025!
🔗 www.topuniversities.com/university-s...
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March 12, 2025 at 11:12 AM
We are delighted to have been ranked 3rd in the world for Linguistics by the QS World Subject Rankings 2025!
🔗 www.topuniversities.com/university-s...
🔗 www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancast...
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🔗 www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancast...
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CRELLA is delighted to host and present at the 3rd Future of English Research Forum by the British Council on Thu 6 and Fri 7 March 2025. Register for online participation at: futureofenglish.britishcouncil.org/insights/res...
Future of English Research Forum
Find out more about the Future of English Research Forum 2025 for insights and discussions on international English language research.
futureofenglish.britishcouncil.org
March 3, 2025 at 9:21 AM
CRELLA is delighted to host and present at the 3rd Future of English Research Forum by the British Council on Thu 6 and Fri 7 March 2025. Register for online participation at: futureofenglish.britishcouncil.org/insights/res...
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www.linguisticscareerlaunch.com has some great information about careers outside of academia for linguists - very much relevant for #appliedlinguistics, too.
Linguistics Career Launch - From coursework to career
www.linguisticscareerlaunch.com
February 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
www.linguisticscareerlaunch.com has some great information about careers outside of academia for linguists - very much relevant for #appliedlinguistics, too.
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My study of pointing gestures in the spoken performance of Trump has been picked by @psypost.bsky.social. You can read Eric Dolan's excellent piece on the research here: www.psypost.org/the-power-of...
The power of the point: The science of Donald Trump's gestures
Ever noticed Donald Trump's frequent pointing? A new linguistic study reveals it's not just random.
www.psypost.org
February 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
My study of pointing gestures in the spoken performance of Trump has been picked by @psypost.bsky.social. You can read Eric Dolan's excellent piece on the research here: www.psypost.org/the-power-of...
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Applications are now open for our new summer school in 'Corpus Linguistics for Language Testing and Assessment' offered as part of our free annual Lancaster Summer Schools series.
16-20 June 2025, Lancaster University
Find out more: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...
16-20 June 2025, Lancaster University
Find out more: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...
February 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Applications are now open for our new summer school in 'Corpus Linguistics for Language Testing and Assessment' offered as part of our free annual Lancaster Summer Schools series.
16-20 June 2025, Lancaster University
Find out more: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...
16-20 June 2025, Lancaster University
Find out more: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...
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I think my new book Language, Image, Gesture: The Cognitive Semiotics of Politics might (finally!) have been published. Currently only in digital format with print copies available from Feb. www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
Language, Image, Gesture
Cambridge Core - Cognitive Linguistics - Language, Image, Gesture
www.cambridge.org
January 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I think my new book Language, Image, Gesture: The Cognitive Semiotics of Politics might (finally!) have been published. Currently only in digital format with print copies available from Feb. www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
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Call for Papers: Applied Corpus Linguistics special issue on corpus research into children's writing.
For details, see phildurrant.net/special-issu...
If you are interested in contributing, please send a 300-word abstract to me (p.l.durrant@exeter.ac.uk) by 31 January.
For details, see phildurrant.net/special-issu...
If you are interested in contributing, please send a 300-word abstract to me (p.l.durrant@exeter.ac.uk) by 31 January.
January 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Call for Papers: Applied Corpus Linguistics special issue on corpus research into children's writing.
For details, see phildurrant.net/special-issu...
If you are interested in contributing, please send a 300-word abstract to me (p.l.durrant@exeter.ac.uk) by 31 January.
For details, see phildurrant.net/special-issu...
If you are interested in contributing, please send a 300-word abstract to me (p.l.durrant@exeter.ac.uk) by 31 January.
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We had a wonderful time at graduation last week, where MA and PhD students from the department graduated. Adrian Hemler was awarded the Geoffrey Leech prize for highest overall MA mark.
Congratulations to all! 🎉
Congratulations to all! 🎉
December 17, 2024 at 4:40 PM
We had a wonderful time at graduation last week, where MA and PhD students from the department graduated. Adrian Hemler was awarded the Geoffrey Leech prize for highest overall MA mark.
Congratulations to all! 🎉
Congratulations to all! 🎉
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Dimension-based comparative judgements. This study proposes a new criteria-based method for conducting comparative judgements (CJ). doi.org/10.1177/0265...
Comparative Judgement for evaluating young learners’ EFL writing performances: Reliability and teacher perceptions of holistic and dimension-based judgements - Rebecca Sickinger, Tineke Brunfaut, John...
Comparative Judgement (CJ) is an evaluation method, typically conducted online, whereby a rank order is constructed, and scores calculated, from judges’ pairwis...
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December 17, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Dimension-based comparative judgements. This study proposes a new criteria-based method for conducting comparative judgements (CJ). doi.org/10.1177/0265...
Staff from @lancslinguistics.bsky.social ready for graduation
December 12, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Staff from @lancslinguistics.bsky.social ready for graduation
Well worth reading by @danijelatrenkic.bsky.social summarising her work on this issue. As well as score entry requirements, the story raises questions about whether language tests are doing a good enough job of capturing the complex construct of academic language proficiency in their tasks/content.
1/ Last week, a BBC report and podcast claimed UK universities enrol students with poor English to balance books. This sparked two reactions: "no shit, Sherlock" or outright denial. 🧵https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mzdejg1d3o
Universities enrolling foreign students with poor English, BBC finds
Institutions may be overlooking inadequate language skills to receive high fees from overseas students.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 12, 2024 at 6:19 AM
Well worth reading by @danijelatrenkic.bsky.social summarising her work on this issue. As well as score entry requirements, the story raises questions about whether language tests are doing a good enough job of capturing the complex construct of academic language proficiency in their tasks/content.
It was great to catch up with @lancslinguistics.bsky.social past and present students (and staff) at Language Testing Forum 2024 #UKALTA
November 23, 2024 at 2:12 PM
It was great to catch up with @lancslinguistics.bsky.social past and present students (and staff) at Language Testing Forum 2024 #UKALTA