Seing our MA Applied Linguistics and MA Language Education students today work with secondary school students on global citizenship 💜💜💜 #education #languagelearning #teachers #multilingualism
An opportunity has opened at my research group for a curious and driven candidate to do their PhD on multiling and edu on the Dutch/German borderlands. Dutch and/or Ger are desired, and Eng a must. Upon approval, the position would be excellently funded and supported. Email me with questions
Wonderful scholar!
Blown away by our MA students at today’s Applied Linguistics Graduate Symposium! So much heart, insight, and variety in their research. What a privilege to witness their work and learn from them 💜 #appliedlinguistics #proud #professor
Conversation with my dad during his visit in the Netherlands:
Dad - ¿Qué es esto, hijo? ¿Leche?
Me - Sí...leche [reads the label and translates from Dutch and English into Spanish]...evaporada...que le han quitado la mitad de la crema...
Dad - Semidesnatada.
Me - 😒 Sí.
Dad - Pobrecito, mi hijo...
Children don’t “get confused” by multiple languages. They get confused when adults (not just teachers!) treat the ways they use their languages as problems. Support multilingual kids by honouring all the ways they make meaning #Translanguaging #EducationForAll
Hi. The position was filled last month.
Just finished teaching at the #appliedlinguistics Summer School offered by Lviv Technological National University in #Ukraine. I'm always delighted to connect with Ukrainian scholars.Very thankful to be included in their programme 💛💙 #translanguaging #multilingualism #education
So much of data analysis is actually data organization
Everything else that possibly exists.
Still some days left to apply for our PhD program in Multilingualism and Migration. Fully-funded, well-supported and excellently located in Groningen. Excited to read so many wonderful proposals already. I'll consider supporting other strong candidates for competitive funding w/in the school.
Congrats. This is an important contribution. Added to my reading list for the weekend.
Back to teaching next week."Pathways for Diversity in #Education" is my only undergraduate class, and takes place in the last quarter. It brings together students from three BA programs. Relatively large group w/ service learning component. Hard to plan but a joy to facilitate. #multilingualism
Tomorrow, Tuesday 8, I'll be giving a (free, open) guest lecture titled "Centering Repertoires, not Target Languages in the Heritage Language Classroom" as part of the Spanish Heritage Language Education Series organised by my very dear Jenny Leeman 💜 out of George Mason University. Join us :)
Happy to share this article (open access, System), hot off the press, on how teachers articulate critical sociocultural theory into praxis when working with multilingual learners. Co-authored w my colleagues from Indiana University-Indy, Teemant and Sherman 💜 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Excited to deliver this keynote tomorrow at the Association of Ukrainian Heritage Language Schools in The Hague 💜
Im (still) coPI of a $3mill US Dept of Education Grant 2022-2027). We serve underresourced schools in the US Midwest. Our research documents how to get great positive lasting + sustainable outcomes, and explains what to do to support teachers. We do the kind of work fascists dread #multilingualism
Job alert at the University of Groningen. Come do your PhD with us under my and Dr Hadi Mirvahedi's supervision at the Centre for Language+Cognition. Focus on Multilingualism, Identity and Well-Being in Migratory contexts. Fully funded. Email me your questions :) www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
They're very lucky to have you, and you'll find some wonderful scholars there. Congrats, Matt!
Reviewer 1 of the paper I'm revising today, whoever you are: thank you, I owe you dinner and a drink at the next conference we attend.
This is spot on
it's many things: It's paying lip service. It's pretending to have what we don't have. It's hoping to be able to hoard as many "top talent" individuals but then pull the rug. It's embarrassing, for sure.
Language is not a system of communication. It's much more. It is how culture is articulated, shared, transmitted. How identities are forged, performed. How knowledge is disseminated, maintained, developed. Ultimately, language is how individuals, communities and societies take shape over time.
Indeed
We're literally being defunded by his ministry and he's promising money to bring top international scientists and their teams to the Netherlands? Plus NWO has become impossibly competitive, but suddenly there's room for more? I don't get it.
I'm including this in my course starting in April!
Fully funded (NWO) PhD position opening soon on Multilingualism, Identity and Emotions in Post-migratory Settings. Co-supervised by myself and Hadi Mirvehedi. Come join us at the @unigroningen.bsky.social's Centre for Language and Cognition 💜 email me if you have preliminary questions
Thus far 2025 has felt like 3 years worth of events packed in three weeks of time.
On point!
