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Niall Curry

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Reader in Languages and Linguistics, Manchester Met • UKRI Metascience AI Fellow • Contrastive/Corpus Linguistics • Climate Discourse • ELT • Co-Editor Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics & Corpus Linguistics Guides • FRSA ➡️ https://linktr.ee/niallrcurry

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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · Jul 24

📝 📣New OA paper with @tonymcenery.bsky.social & @gavinbrookes.bsky.social, "A question of alignment – AI, GenAI and applied linguistics" You can find it in ARAL here: doi.org/10.1017/S026... & more details in the posts below ⬇️ @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

A question of alignment – AI, GenAI and applied linguistics | Annual Review of Applied Linguistics | Cambridge Core

A question of alignment – AI, GenAI and applied linguistics

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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 3h

You too, Danny! Your topic on epistemic trespassing looks super interesting and is so important! Exciting times ahead I think! 😁

Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks so much, Kat! 😀

Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks so much, Viola! I feel the same way!

Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks, Helen! 🥳

Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks, Tony! 😃

Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 6h

If you want to know more about what I'll be doing, you can find a summary here: www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve.... And I'll be posting project updates here: niallcurry.com/genai-in-the...

Future of AI in research to be explored in groundbreaking study

Implications for how public bodies use generative AI in social sciences research

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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 6h

Some exciting news ⤵️ to share: I have been awarded a UKRI Metascience AI Fellowship! This will enable me to spend the next few years working with research councils & policymakers to develop disciplinary guidelines & policy on responsible AI use in Social Science research. @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · 1d

We're pleased to be funding early career researchers to explore how AI is transforming science.

The UK Metascience Unit has announced a cohort of 29 researchers that will receive funding through the AI Metascience Fellowship Programme.

Read more: www.ukri.org/news/interna...

International fellowships to explore AI’s impact on science

New £4 million programme funds early career researchers in the UK, US and Canada to investigate how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming science.

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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 2d

Specifically, these findings underscore the value that corpus approaches bring to language learning and the need for explicit training in AI tools used in autonomous language learning. You can read more here: doi.org/10.1080/0958...

Integrating critical corpus and AI literacies in applied linguistics: a mixed-methods study

This study examines the integration of corpus literacy and critical AI literacy in language education. As part of a sequential mixed-methods design, undergraduate learners from a southern European ...

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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 2d

Overall, we argue that developing corpus literacies can act as a means of developing critical AI literacies, and that this in itself can enhance language learning for learners who choose to use AI.

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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 2d

We raise questions on the role of the product and the process in language learning, the differences between perceived personalised learning and its relationship with individualised learning, and the value of critical questions surrounding technology use for language learning.

Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 2d

We also found that the generative AI tools, while popular, present challenges related to over-reliance and a lack of truly personalised learning.

Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 2d

Conversely, we found that while ChatGPT was widely used by the learners, ultimately it elicited mixed evaluations regarding reliability. The overall findings suggest a few things, including that corpus literacy fosters critical engagement with language data.

Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 2d

Broadly, we wanted to study how undergraduate learners from a southern European university engage with corpus and AI tools and we found that while learners initially lacked familiarity with corpus tools, they came to recognise their value in developing corpus-mediated linguistic awareness.

Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 2d

This study was conducted to examine the potential for the integration of corpus and AI literacies in language education and we used a sequential mixed-methods design, incorporating training days, workshops, task outputs, and focus groups as data.

Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 2d

New OA 🔓 paper with @perez-paredes.bsky.social & @paguado.bsky.social in Computer Assisted Language Learning @tandfresearch.bsky.social. Read, 'Integrating critical corpus and AI literacies in applied linguistics: A mixed-methods study' here: doi.org/10.1080/0958... & see 🧵 below for some details ⬇️

Integrating critical corpus and AI literacies in applied linguistics: a mixed-methods study

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Glenn Hadikin @glennhadikin.bsky.social · 7d

www.cambridge.org/core/journal... For people interested in the links between AL and AI.

Latest volume | Annual Review of Applied Linguistics | Cambridge Core

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics

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Yen Dang @yendang101.bsky.social · 12d

Happy to share that the Academic Spoken Word List (Dang, Coxhead & Webb, 2017) is now on Lextutor for lexical profiling! 🎉 Check % of academic spoken words in texts here: www.lextutor.ca/vp/comp/. Huge thanks to Tom Cob! Please explore & share!

VOCABPROFILE COMPLEAT - INPUT

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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 16d

Honoured to give a keynote at the Data, Gender and Society summer school at @dhssfau.bsky.social this morning. Thanks so much for the invitation, and great audience engagement! @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 18d

One for the calendars 📅 #IVACS2026 will take place in Malta, July 1-3 2026! I'm honoured to be among the plenary speakers. More details on the conference and call for papers here: www.um.edu.mt/events/ivacs...

Details on conference call for papers, available at the link.

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Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social · 21d

new article published open access in Reading Research Quarterly 💫

Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept
doi.org/10.1002/rrq....

i trace how deficit ideologies associated with the 'word gap' get reproduced - and rejected - in teacher education and schools.

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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 22d

Had a nice opportunity today to reflect on all the brilliant linguistic research taking place at @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social over the last year or so! So many exciting things ahead and in store! @manmetuni.bsky.social

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Sten Hansson @stenhansson.bsky.social · 23d

A systematic approach to identifying communication-related challenges that should be addressed by policymakers of the host country to reduce the vulnerability of refugees

Sten Hansson @stenhansson.bsky.social · 23d

New article out now on how to reduce communication-related vulnerability of war refugees

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Communication-Related Vulnerability of War Refugees: The Case of Ukrainians Escaping Russia's Invasion. When war refugees arrive in a host country, they may find themselves in a vulnerable condition and struggle to cope in a foreign setting. This article presents a systematic approach to identifying important communication-related challenges that should be addressed by policymakers at the national level of the host country to reduce the vulnerability of refugees. Building upon the theoretical framework of “communication-related vulnerability to disasters,” a case study of Ukrainian refugees fleeing to Estonia to escape Russia's invasion in 2022 is used to map out the ways in which displaced individuals may become more vulnerable due to various individual, social-structural, and situational factors that impede access to, understanding of, or responding to risk and crisis information. The data from 15 semi-structured interviews with key crisis managers show how access to vital information may be disrupted by a digitized communication environment unfamiliar to the refugees and the authorities' lack of experience in dealing with mass immigration. It also reveals how barriers to understanding arise from limited language skills and exposure to disinformation, and how crisis managers cannot provide adequate support if they experience information overload and poor interagency cooperation.

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Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social · 24d

Like many other ECRs out there I'm currently looking for a job. If anyone is looking for an RA in linguistics, archival research, palaeography, textual editing etc, please let me know!

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 26d

***RESEARCH PAPER OUT NOW***

“I agree with this”: A multi-modal register analysis of lexical bundles in the ICNALE by Trevor Sitler (Kansai University) and Martin Spivey (Akita University)

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#learnercorpus #corpuslinguistics #JapanEFL #ICNALE

APJCR_2025_6_1_25 | 국립인천대학교 코퍼스연구소 / Institute for Corpus Research, Incheon National University

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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks so much Anna, so glad you like it!