We are pleased to invite you to the launch of 'Re-imagining language and communication in collaborative projects: ethnographic perspectives on the future' (@routledgebooks.bsky.social), edited by @mariarosagarrido.bsky.social & @mpmilans.bsky.social.

🗓️ 30 October, 4pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/O3iOKMJ

📝 NEW blog entry by Ana María Relaño Pastor, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha:
IN MEMORIAM
TO MY DAD (who spoke his best English late in life)

This is a very special entry and I hope that you will enjoy it as much as I did.

🌐 Read it here: anglescatalunya1980.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/i...

📣 Acabo de publicar un nou article a Treballs de Sociolingüística Catalana 35 sobre els discursos de les famílies amb criatures a primària sobre l'aprenentatge "immersiu" de l'anglès en un espai lúdic, fonamentats en les ideologies d’ "aprendre fent" i adquisició "natural".

🌐 shorturl.at/Wl0lz

📣 NEW Blog post on (Hi)Stories of foreign language learning: "Biografies lingüístiques i narratives historiogràfiques del canvi social: Les altres veus de la transició espanyola", per Narcís Iglésias (Universitat de Girona).

🌐 Us animeu a llegir l'entrada completa? shorturl.at/RQn8v

🚨Panel al VII Simposi #EDiSo (3 juliol, 9-11): "Una mirada historicitzadora i biogràfica a l’evolució discursiva de l’ensenyament de llengües estrangeres a #Catalunya" als anys 1980.

🌐 Web projecte: anglescatalunya1980.wordpress.com

⬇️ Introduction + 3 papers (vegeu més avall), CAT+ENG.

📖
@mpmilans.bsky.social
& I will be presenting our new edited volume "Reimagining language and communication in collaborative projects" at VII EDiSo Symposium on 2 July 3-5 pm
🗣️ Daniel Silva, @vpajaro.bsky.social &
@peterbrowning.bsky.social
will present their chapters there
🌐 shorturl.at/5yo58

📝 NEW blog entry by David Block (UPF): TEACHING ENGLISH IN BARCELONA IN THE 1980S: A VERY PERSONAL STORY, PT 1
🗣️ What were the language teaching & language learning opportunities open to a young English speaker in Barcelona in 1979?

anglescatalunya1980.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/t...

🚨Journée d'Études "Langues et histoire
Un dialogue interdisciplinaire", Université de Fribourg, 26 et 27 août 2025.

🌐 Plus d'infos: institut-plurilinguisme.ch/sites/defaul...

Trop hâte d'échanger sur la place de l'histoire en sociolinguistique.

Our new book can now be ordered in hardback. Colleagues based in universities please request it via your institutional libraries if you’re interested. Hopefully the volume will be available in paperback version very soon. Check out contents and a preview in the first comment, below!

🚨 Our volume "Re-imagining language and communication in collaborative projects" with @mpmilans.bsky.social is in press!
We are thrilled to see the result of many years of collaboration & dialogue about the commons, utopias, inequality and imaginaries with superb scholars.
🌐 shorturl.at/eV3FJ

After 7 years as #JSLX Book Reviews and Social Media Editor I am stepping down and Andrea Sunyol (UCL) will take over this role in 2025. I wish her all the best 💫

➡️ We have just published the last 2024 episode of #JSLX Conversations with Penny Eckert & Emma Moore:

🌐 shorturl.at/dELrU

➡️ NEW blog entry: "Back to the future: Intergenerational narratives of #English language learning in contemporary #Catalonia" by Adriana Patiño-Santos & Maria Rosa Garrido.

🌐 Read it here: anglescatalunya1980.wordpress.com/2024/08/01/b...

🎉🎉🎉

The Journal of Sociolinguistics #JSLX is now on Bluesky @jslx.bsky.social, helmed by our new Reviews and Social Media Editor, Dr. Andrea Sunyol!!

profiles.ucl.ac.uk/64572-andrea...

#sociolinguistics #linguistics #journals

🔶International Seminar: "A sociolinguistic historicisation of foreign language teaching"

🗓️ 8th January 2025, 09:30-16:00, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

🌐 More info about the research project and seminar: anglescatalunya1980.wordpress.com