🇺🇦🇦🇹 Telegram a little differently than my usual:

About the Telegram groups themselves, the language and technology resources we all use, and our new unwelcome "member" - ChatGPT.

This is the most personal academic thing I've ever written. ♥️

"Language educators are reminded not to separate language proficiency from the contexts in which language is used and the communicative purposes it serves."

New review of "Life in a New Language" (@academic.oup.com)

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/A7VKQ...

Kurdish case enables/forces us to think everything in plurals.

Another wonderful article on @theamargi.bsky.social
to rethink current situation in Rojava/Syria/Middle East

Amazing work, integrating critical pedagogy to heritage language education through materials.
We need more examples of such perspectives for all heritage language education programs.

Neues #Unterrichtsmaterial online verfügbar: #Migration in der #Geschichte, #Zwangsmigration, Erster Weltkrieg; #Auswanderung aus Deutschland in die #USA; Europa und die Welt.
#Herkunftssprachlicher #Unterricht

Das Modul kann hier aufgerufen werden:
www.zwischentoene.info/unterrichtse...

In a harsher order, stateless peoples like the Kurds face the sharpest edge of realpolitik. What changes when power stops pretending to be rules. OPINION by Bamo Nouri
www.theamargi.com/posts/the-re...

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A wonderful analysis by Amanj Aziz for @theamargi.bsky.social which gives an idea of the recent situation in Rojava and exposes the "selective solidarity" when it comes to the Kurds.

Some media outlets cheered a recent decree by the transition government in Syria regarding Kurdish language without telling the larger context of colonial oppression. Here is a powerful and historically-aware account of what is going on in #Rojava / #Syrian

On my reading list for early 2026:
The International Sociological Association's magazine just published a special issue on Michael Burawoy
globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/uploads/imge...

A highly progressive language policy is already in place in Kurdish-led Autonomous Region using Kurdish, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian and Turkoman official languages and as medium of bilingual education. Sharaa's symbolic decree is not a step forward, but another move toward old style nationalism.

My new habit is listening to @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast. The last one was
"Migration, constraints, and suffering" in which Ingrid Piller talks to Marco Santello about his research with Gambian migrants in Italy. Constraints & suffering are keywords in the highly engaging conversation.

Mehr Beschäftigte als Arbeitslose aus Asylherkunftsländern:
📊 Beschäftigungsquote bei Geflüchteten: 50,2 %
📊 Sozialhilfe beziehen 41,9 %
📊 arbeitslos sind 27 % - Quote rückläufig
🔗 Weitere aktuelle Zahlen und Fakten zum Thema: mediendienst-integration.de/arbeitsmarkt...

If you are looking for an intellectual analysis of what is going on in Iran, here is a wonderful interview with Prof. Dr. Abbas Vali, a professor of political philosophy and author of several foundational books and articles on and around Kurds and Iran.
youtube.com/watch?v=xCI5...

Kinder mit Einwanderungsgeschichte sind viermal so häufig von Armut betroffen wie Kinder ohne Einwanderungsgeschichte. 2024 waren rund 40 Prozent der Minderjährigen, die selbst oder deren Eltern zugewandert sind, von Armut gefährdet: mediendienst-integration.de/integration/...

#jobs An der Universität Osnabrück ist an der Professur „Deutsch als Zweitsprache und sprachliche Bildung" zum 01. April 2026 eine #Quali-Stelle (13 TV-L, 50 %) für die Dauer von zunächst drei Jahren zu besetzen. Die Bewerbungen können bis zum 12. Dezember 2025 eingereicht werden.
#BLinguistik

Your/our languages are your/our superpowers!

The new podcast from the @languageonthemove.bsky.social

It is so exciting to be part of this amazing team/journey!