Philip Montgomery
@dpmontgomery.bsky.social
Living and learning in Astana. Proud papa. Adopted Kazakh Kúıeý Bala. Researching and teaching multilingual education, “academic” writing, and critical language policy at Nazarbayev University. dpmontgomery.wordpress.com
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Starter packs are a phenomenal way to make connections. Here’s one for Critical Applied Linguists.
Let me know if you would like me to add you!
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Let me know if you would like me to add you!
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If we focus on social action, language policy is the discourse management of people.
Highly recommend reading "Language Policy in Action" by
@kristofsavski.bsky.social
Read my full review here: rdcu.be/eHSQa
Thanks to
@bonacina-pugh.bsky.social
and the team at LP @springernature.com
Highly recommend reading "Language Policy in Action" by
@kristofsavski.bsky.social
Read my full review here: rdcu.be/eHSQa
Thanks to
@bonacina-pugh.bsky.social
and the team at LP @springernature.com
Savski, K. (2024). Language policy in action. Cambridge University Press.
rdcu.be
September 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
If we focus on social action, language policy is the discourse management of people.
Highly recommend reading "Language Policy in Action" by
@kristofsavski.bsky.social
Read my full review here: rdcu.be/eHSQa
Thanks to
@bonacina-pugh.bsky.social
and the team at LP @springernature.com
Highly recommend reading "Language Policy in Action" by
@kristofsavski.bsky.social
Read my full review here: rdcu.be/eHSQa
Thanks to
@bonacina-pugh.bsky.social
and the team at LP @springernature.com
🚨 New publication on critical peer mentoring in higher ed:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🤓 2 year collaborative autoethnography + three constructs: identity, radical praxis, and ideological becoming
🌏 Result: a model that can scaffold faculty development workshops or peer mentoring programs
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🤓 2 year collaborative autoethnography + three constructs: identity, radical praxis, and ideological becoming
🌏 Result: a model that can scaffold faculty development workshops or peer mentoring programs
Critical peer mentoring: Aligning values and practice as professional development
Critical peer mentoring grounded in the concepts of radical praxis, writing centre practitioner (WCP) identity, and ideological becoming can be a transformative practice. Utilising collaborative au...
www.tandfonline.com
May 7, 2025 at 5:56 AM
🚨 New publication on critical peer mentoring in higher ed:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🤓 2 year collaborative autoethnography + three constructs: identity, radical praxis, and ideological becoming
🌏 Result: a model that can scaffold faculty development workshops or peer mentoring programs
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🤓 2 year collaborative autoethnography + three constructs: identity, radical praxis, and ideological becoming
🌏 Result: a model that can scaffold faculty development workshops or peer mentoring programs
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"I'm not a specialist in science"
"I'm not an English teacher"
What does it take to become a #CLIL teacher in Kazakhstan? We found that English teachers and content subject teachers take very different paths. Implications for STEM, EMI and CLIL teacher training more broadly.
bit.ly/CLILidentities
"I'm not an English teacher"
What does it take to become a #CLIL teacher in Kazakhstan? We found that English teachers and content subject teachers take very different paths. Implications for STEM, EMI and CLIL teacher training more broadly.
bit.ly/CLILidentities
(PDF) Forging CLIL Teacher Identities in Kazakhstan: Developmental Pathways of Two University Teachers
PDF | As universities in Kazakhstan continue to address the challenges that come with developing English-medium instruction (EMI) programs, university... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...
bit.ly
March 3, 2025 at 9:10 AM
"I'm not a specialist in science"
"I'm not an English teacher"
What does it take to become a #CLIL teacher in Kazakhstan? We found that English teachers and content subject teachers take very different paths. Implications for STEM, EMI and CLIL teacher training more broadly.
bit.ly/CLILidentities
"I'm not an English teacher"
What does it take to become a #CLIL teacher in Kazakhstan? We found that English teachers and content subject teachers take very different paths. Implications for STEM, EMI and CLIL teacher training more broadly.
bit.ly/CLILidentities
The Macarena came on the radio and I was surprised to know my 5-yo already knows the moves. “Come on Papa, everyone knows the Macaroni Song!” 🙄 🤣
February 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The Macarena came on the radio and I was surprised to know my 5-yo already knows the moves. “Come on Papa, everyone knows the Macaroni Song!” 🙄 🤣
Happy to share a book chapter, and perhaps my favorite solo-authored piece to date. 🤓
What benefits, challenges, and identity construction processes do Kazakhstani multilingual teachers experience? 🌏🤨
What language ideologies are enacted in our research? 🤔
bit.ly/criticalEMI
What benefits, challenges, and identity construction processes do Kazakhstani multilingual teachers experience? 🌏🤨
What language ideologies are enacted in our research? 🤔
bit.ly/criticalEMI
(PDF) "I Just Opened My Heart": Challenges and Contradictions in Multilingual EMI Teacher Identity Construction
PDF | This study reports on a qualitative study of one higher education teacher at a rural technical university in Kazakhstan. The focal participant,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
bit.ly
February 3, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Happy to share a book chapter, and perhaps my favorite solo-authored piece to date. 🤓
What benefits, challenges, and identity construction processes do Kazakhstani multilingual teachers experience? 🌏🤨
What language ideologies are enacted in our research? 🤔
bit.ly/criticalEMI
What benefits, challenges, and identity construction processes do Kazakhstani multilingual teachers experience? 🌏🤨
What language ideologies are enacted in our research? 🤔
bit.ly/criticalEMI
Trump’s Executive Order on “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools is premised on some strange logic. I understand ideologies as dynamic, contested, assemblages of values. How can they be “false”?
January 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Trump’s Executive Order on “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools is premised on some strange logic. I understand ideologies as dynamic, contested, assemblages of values. How can they be “false”?
Challenge accepted 😝
hard to believe that we aren't living at peak handbook. imagine living in 1980. a new handbook every 15 seconds. the drains literally clogged with them.
January 22, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Challenge accepted 😝
I learned today that 39 is not too old to go sledding. It is, however, too old to go sledding and not need ibuprofen afterwards 🤦♂️
January 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I learned today that 39 is not too old to go sledding. It is, however, too old to go sledding and not need ibuprofen afterwards 🤦♂️
Teaching graduate students about research literacy?
How about creating opportunities to participate in research communities?
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/eight...
How about creating opportunities to participate in research communities?
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/eight...
Eight steps to launch a student-led peer-review journal
To help PhD students gain the skills required for publication and improve research literacy, consider an in-house academic journal
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Teaching graduate students about research literacy?
How about creating opportunities to participate in research communities?
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/eight...
How about creating opportunities to participate in research communities?
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/eight...
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My 11yo just asked me why I’m having coffee again.
January 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
My 11yo just asked me why I’m having coffee again.
Textbook example of how language ideologies are reinforced or challenged in hundreds of everyday interactions.
At School…
Teacher: Bilingualism is great.
Child: ¡Soy bilinguë!
T: It is English time!
C: 😳
Later in the day…
T: Ser bilinguë vale por dos.
C: I am bilingual!
T: ¡Español por favor!
C: 😳
At Home…
Parent: What did you learn en la escuela hoy?
C: 😳. Is it English time or Spanish time?
Teacher: Bilingualism is great.
Child: ¡Soy bilinguë!
T: It is English time!
C: 😳
Later in the day…
T: Ser bilinguë vale por dos.
C: I am bilingual!
T: ¡Español por favor!
C: 😳
At Home…
Parent: What did you learn en la escuela hoy?
C: 😳. Is it English time or Spanish time?
January 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Textbook example of how language ideologies are reinforced or challenged in hundreds of everyday interactions.
Reposted by Philip Montgomery
Writing tip: After you finish, go back & cut all the adverbs. Then all the adjectives. Then all the other words. Eat the paper. Now you're free.
January 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Writing tip: After you finish, go back & cut all the adverbs. Then all the adjectives. Then all the other words. Eat the paper. Now you're free.
Resharing this starter pack with some new additions. Still happy to add more folks!
go.bsky.app/Yv8eX9
go.bsky.app/Yv8eX9
January 9, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Resharing this starter pack with some new additions. Still happy to add more folks!
go.bsky.app/Yv8eX9
go.bsky.app/Yv8eX9
I’ve done portfolio grading in middle and high school classrooms. This semester I’m trying it out with graduate students. Lots of choice and chances for creativity.
January 9, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I’ve done portfolio grading in middle and high school classrooms. This semester I’m trying it out with graduate students. Lots of choice and chances for creativity.
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So much academic writing advice is just “false promises and cheap tricks” - novice writers deserve better, as @patthomson.bsky.social reminds us
I’m making a comeback by explaining why I stopped blogging patthomson.net/2025/01/01/p...
Patter is back
Patter has been missing in action since the end of August. A bad case of blogging burn-out you might ask? Well, yes that’s true. I have been writing this patter thing for twelve years and I did hav…
patthomson.net
January 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
So much academic writing advice is just “false promises and cheap tricks” - novice writers deserve better, as @patthomson.bsky.social reminds us
And the critical educational linguist might add that the label “the real world” is always up for grabs, that teaching students to celebrate and leverage linguistic diversity is in fact preparing them for a linguistically heterogenous future, in turn helping preserve the value of that heterogeneity
As an educational linguist I would add that efforts to linguistically prepare students for ‘the real world’ erase the linguistic heterogeneity of the world by framing language as a static set of rules rather than a creative tool for making sense of the world and our role in it
I don’t want my class to prepare students for ‘the real world.’
I want my class to help students dream of a better world.
I want my class to help students dream of a better world.
December 30, 2024 at 6:58 PM
And the critical educational linguist might add that the label “the real world” is always up for grabs, that teaching students to celebrate and leverage linguistic diversity is in fact preparing them for a linguistically heterogenous future, in turn helping preserve the value of that heterogeneity
5 yo: what are you listening to?
Mom: it’s work stuff
5 yo: what are they talking about?
Mom: contingencies of reinforcement
5 yo: Oh, they’re speaking Russian??
😂
Mom: it’s work stuff
5 yo: what are they talking about?
Mom: contingencies of reinforcement
5 yo: Oh, they’re speaking Russian??
😂
December 15, 2024 at 8:15 AM
5 yo: what are you listening to?
Mom: it’s work stuff
5 yo: what are they talking about?
Mom: contingencies of reinforcement
5 yo: Oh, they’re speaking Russian??
😂
Mom: it’s work stuff
5 yo: what are they talking about?
Mom: contingencies of reinforcement
5 yo: Oh, they’re speaking Russian??
😂
Opened a new document today to start drafting my first journal article from my dissertation!
a man in a denim jacket holds a bouquet of flowers in front of a plastic bag that says in a few
Alt: a man in a denim jacket rolling up his sleeves
media.tenor.com
December 12, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Opened a new document today to start drafting my first journal article from my dissertation!
📢 Request 📢
Designing a course for graduate students called Language and Literacy Development.
MA in Multilingual Education.
What HAS to be on that syllabus?
Also, help me diversify readings outside of western contexts!
#literacies #edusky
Designing a course for graduate students called Language and Literacy Development.
MA in Multilingual Education.
What HAS to be on that syllabus?
Also, help me diversify readings outside of western contexts!
#literacies #edusky
a baby is reading a book with his eyes closed while sitting at a table .
ALT: a baby is reading a book with his eyes closed while sitting at a table .
media.tenor.com
December 11, 2024 at 9:01 AM
📢 Request 📢
Designing a course for graduate students called Language and Literacy Development.
MA in Multilingual Education.
What HAS to be on that syllabus?
Also, help me diversify readings outside of western contexts!
#literacies #edusky
Designing a course for graduate students called Language and Literacy Development.
MA in Multilingual Education.
What HAS to be on that syllabus?
Also, help me diversify readings outside of western contexts!
#literacies #edusky
Any beer lovers on here? Dreaming of a hazy IPA that light barely passes through. Can’t get that in Kazakhstan (this one is from Houston last spring), but will be back in the States next week!
December 9, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Any beer lovers on here? Dreaming of a hazy IPA that light barely passes through. Can’t get that in Kazakhstan (this one is from Houston last spring), but will be back in the States next week!
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My book is now officially out. Please drop a request to your library. If you want to order individually, see discount code below. More info here: www.cambridge.org/9781009385121
#appliedlinguistics #linguistics #languagepolicy
#appliedlinguistics #linguistics #languagepolicy
December 6, 2024 at 3:39 AM
My book is now officially out. Please drop a request to your library. If you want to order individually, see discount code below. More info here: www.cambridge.org/9781009385121
#appliedlinguistics #linguistics #languagepolicy
#appliedlinguistics #linguistics #languagepolicy
Language ideologies shape the rules around what and whose language is validated. A big shift in research in recent years has been from identifying what they *are* to illustrating what they *do*--how they impact social life. Read more in our EAL entry! www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Ideology
PDF | Ideologies, as shared beliefs about what is acceptable or valued in a society, are present in various aspects of everyday life, including... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Re...
www.researchgate.net
December 2, 2024 at 4:30 AM
Language ideologies shape the rules around what and whose language is validated. A big shift in research in recent years has been from identifying what they *are* to illustrating what they *do*--how they impact social life. Read more in our EAL entry! www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Reposted by Philip Montgomery
November 29, 2024 at 6:56 PM