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Marcel Van Amelsvoort 🇨🇦
@marcelva.bsky.social
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Japan-based TESOL veteran, CLIL program assistant manager, L2 Reading researcher, student mobility czar, and mini dachshund emotional-support human.
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royalasiaticsoc.bsky.social
Meet one of the oldest early printed books in our collections - a Japanese-Spanish dictionary compiled by Catholic missionaries and published in 1630 in Manila 📖
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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peterfenton.bsky.social
Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Communicative and task-based language teaching: where are we now?
Published in The Language Learning Journal (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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garydelaney.bsky.social
A story in three parts
A story in the parts
October 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking. I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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didau.bsky.social
*NEW* The day I do nothing is the day I get faster. The minute after you teach is when learning happens. Spacing isn’t a strategy; it’s a timetable. Protect the gap: quiet recap, sleep, early return. Cramming isn't rigour; it’s sabotage.
Harnessing the spacing effect to creating more efficient gaps
Why quiet intervals, sleep and early returns beat cramming in both training and teaching
open.substack.com
September 13, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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tonymcenery.bsky.social
What do you find when you compare how speakers of British English and learners of British English hold conversations? This is exactly what I look at in a few million words of data, with Issy Clarke and Gavin Brookes in a new FREE book out with CUP today! Link here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
Learner Language, Discourse and Interaction
Cambridge Core - Discourse Analysis - Learner Language, Discourse and Interaction
www.cambridge.org
January 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
marcelva.bsky.social
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
US college declines to oppose Trump travel ban after Iranian students’ plea
Letter called on University of Texas at Austin to denounce ban on Iranians and take ‘immediate legal action’.
www.aljazeera.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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tevistickles.bsky.social
Maybe we all should be wearing tin foil hats🤷.
August 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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washingtonpost.com
Ultra-processed foods account for roughly 55 percent of the calories Americans consume daily, according to new federal data.
Ultra-processed foods make up over half of Americans’ calories, CDC says
Roughly 55 percent of the average daily caloric intake comes from ultra-processed foods, which HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed to crack down on.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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markeymarx.bsky.social
August 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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dtwuva.bsky.social
"Our results suggest that word reading and spelling are one and the same, almost, but that spoken vocabulary knowledge is more closely related to reading than to spelling." Open article from the great Rebecca Treiman and colleagues. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
On the relationship between word reading ability and spelling ability - Reading and Writing
The goal of the present study was to test theories about the extent to which individual differences in word reading align with those in spelling and the extent to which other cognitive and linguistic ...
link.springer.com
July 6, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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carlhendrick.substack.com
Introducing 'Instructional Illusions' with @paulkirschner.bsky.social and Jim Heal carlhendrick.substack.com/p/introducin...
May 17, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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zlhandley.bsky.social
Sign up here, to join our (Clare Wright, Leeds and I) talk for the ELINET Online Network seminar series on May 8th (14:00 BST) about international students' experiences of study abroad: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
April 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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larryferlazzo.bsky.social
apnews.com/article/coll... International students weigh new risks of pursuing higher education in the US under Trump
International students weigh new risks of pursuing higher education in the US under Trump
As colleges and universities respond to Trump administration directives to change how they operate, educators worry that fewer international students will want to study in the U.S..
apnews.com
March 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner. Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis
Iconic cartoon with people looking at a long list of public benefits connected with climate action, asking “What if it’s a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?”
March 18, 2025 at 6:14 AM
marcelva.bsky.social
"Chinese students now constitute approximately 70% of all international students at Japanese art schools."

asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Ch...
Chinese students flock to Japanese art colleges for permanent residency
Education becomes pathway to long-term settlement
asia.nikkei.com
March 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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aaup.org
We condemn in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government.

This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...
Columbia Disciplines Students Who Occupied Campus Building Last Year
Sanctions for the Hamilton Hall occupation include expulsions and suspensions.
www.nytimes.com
March 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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jsinted.bsky.social
The impact of a global mobility program: the lenses of ‘Future Self ’ & ‘Realised Self’

@lesleyharbon.bsky.social & Chang Liu

🔓→ doi.org/10.1177/1028...

#FutureSelf #RealisedSelf #InternationalExchange #StudyAbroad #PreServiceTeachers #Australia #Indonesia #CulturalAppreciation #StudentMobility
Image of the title and abstract of the article
March 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
marcelva.bsky.social
March 9-10 1945 : 41 km2 of Tokyo were destroyed and 100,000 civilians killed and over a million made homeless. Napalm cluster bombs were used on wooden houses, and the guns on the B-29s removed to reduce the weight of the aircraft so they could carry more napalm. Humans did this. To other humans.
March 10, 2025 at 4:33 AM
marcelva.bsky.social
No. "...language apps have a role to play, but it's ... a complementary, supplementing role"
February 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
marcelva.bsky.social
Koreans and Taiwanese are at double and triple rates respectively. Do young people really "have less drive to succeed overseas compared with [other] Asian countries?"
asia.nikkei.com Nikkei Asia (Official) @asia.nikkei.com · Feb 20
Only 17.5% of Japanese nationals held passports at the end of 2024, a much lower rate than in other advanced economies, amid rising costs overseas and a weakening appetite for travel among younger generations. asia.nikkei.com/Business/Trav...
Just 1 in 6 Japanese hold world's second-strongest passport
Weak yen and shift to domestic tourism seen behind sluggish issuance
asia.nikkei.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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nikpeachey.bsky.social
How easy is it for your students to cheat with AI? https://buff.ly/4ed7gC6 When children set themselves the specific aim of avoiding detection: 50 per cent of the 12-year-olds bypassed detection. 38 per cent of the 13-year-olds bypassed detection. 100 per cent of the 17-year-olds bypassed detection.
February 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
marcelva.bsky.social
Wow!

4th grade reading

Top 10 percent: Down 1 point

Bottom 10 percent: Down 15 points

8th grade math

Top 10 percent: Down 2 points

Bottom 10 percent: Down 18 points
douglemov.bsky.social douglemov.bsky.social @douglemov.bsky.social · Feb 2
Good Analysis:
@chadaldeman.bsky.social on NAEP winners and losers. The Mississippi Miracle, the Louisiana Soon-to-be Miracle and the 'flock of dead birds in the coal mine.'

www.chadaldeman.com/p/naep-winne...
NAEP Winners and Losers
Breaking down the scores
www.chadaldeman.com
February 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
marcelva.bsky.social
Well...the future is here for some parts of language teaching...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmhC...
VUEVO Display | リアルタイム字幕・翻訳でグローバルなお客様に対応する窓口を実現
YouTube video by Pixie Dust Technologies, Inc.
www.youtube.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM