Julia Snell
@snelljulia.bsky.social
Professor of Sociolinguists at the Uni. of Leeds, UK. Researching language, identity, education & inequality.
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Julia Snell
@snelljulia.bsky.social
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New research published in @languageeducation.bsky.social, available open access here (tinyurl.com/bdf262jp) and a short thread on the work below. Many thanks to the reviewers & editors for their feedback and to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding support.
Are you a primary teacher/leader interesting in applying oracy education in a socially just and inclusive way? Join me for a workshop in January. Attendance is free & you will receive £30 as recognition of the expertise you bring. See link for more info & booking: forms.office.com/e/TBLZHgkWfn...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Are you a primary teacher/leader interesting in applying oracy education in a socially just and inclusive way? Join me for a workshop in January. Attendance is free & you will receive £30 as recognition of the expertise you bring. See link for more info & booking: forms.office.com/e/TBLZHgkWfn...
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“Pupils who experience dialogic teaching and learning will develop their oral language skills, gain confidence and build relationships (by becoming more patient and attuned to others’ perspectives)".
Read more on dialogic teaching and learning here 👇
eu1.hubs.ly/H0pZBNx0
@snelljulia.bsky.social
Read more on dialogic teaching and learning here 👇
eu1.hubs.ly/H0pZBNx0
@snelljulia.bsky.social
An introduction to dialogic teaching and learning - Voice 21
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November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“Pupils who experience dialogic teaching and learning will develop their oral language skills, gain confidence and build relationships (by becoming more patient and attuned to others’ perspectives)".
Read more on dialogic teaching and learning here 👇
eu1.hubs.ly/H0pZBNx0
@snelljulia.bsky.social
Read more on dialogic teaching and learning here 👇
eu1.hubs.ly/H0pZBNx0
@snelljulia.bsky.social
Lots of talk about oracy since the Curriculum & Assessment review, so I’m resharing the Oracy Commission's Speaking Volumes publication. There’s a piece from me that outlines 3 ideas schools might want to think about in their discussions around oracy oracyeducationcommission.co.uk/wp-content/u...
oracyeducationcommission.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Lots of talk about oracy since the Curriculum & Assessment review, so I’m resharing the Oracy Commission's Speaking Volumes publication. There’s a piece from me that outlines 3 ideas schools might want to think about in their discussions around oracy oracyeducationcommission.co.uk/wp-content/u...
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⭐We can’t wait for the inspiring @snelljulia.bsky.social's inaugural lecture “Language Diversity and Social (In)justice” taking place today.
An event to both learn from and undoubtedly to acknowledge Julia’s thought-leadership 👇
www.ticketsource.co.uk/university-o...
An event to both learn from and undoubtedly to acknowledge Julia’s thought-leadership 👇
www.ticketsource.co.uk/university-o...
www.ticketsource.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
⭐We can’t wait for the inspiring @snelljulia.bsky.social's inaugural lecture “Language Diversity and Social (In)justice” taking place today.
An event to both learn from and undoubtedly to acknowledge Julia’s thought-leadership 👇
www.ticketsource.co.uk/university-o...
An event to both learn from and undoubtedly to acknowledge Julia’s thought-leadership 👇
www.ticketsource.co.uk/university-o...
One week today! Join me for my inaugural lecture on 12th Nov. If you won’t be in Leeds, you can join online (dm me for Teams link)
Please join me on 12th November at my @universityofleeds.bsky.social professorial inaugural lecture on ‘Language Diversity and Social (In)justice’. More info here, including a link at the bottom to book a ticket (which is free but we need to track numbers): ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/even...
Professor Julia Snell's Inaugural Lecture: 'Language diversity and social (in)justice'
Drawing on research conducted over 20 years, Prof. Julia Snell interrogates the assumption that modifying children's speech will lead to educational success and social mobility.
ahc.leeds.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
One week today! Join me for my inaugural lecture on 12th Nov. If you won’t be in Leeds, you can join online (dm me for Teams link)
Please join me on 12th November at my @universityofleeds.bsky.social professorial inaugural lecture on ‘Language Diversity and Social (In)justice’. More info here, including a link at the bottom to book a ticket (which is free but we need to track numbers): ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/even...
Professor Julia Snell's Inaugural Lecture: 'Language diversity and social (in)justice'
Drawing on research conducted over 20 years, Prof. Julia Snell interrogates the assumption that modifying children's speech will lead to educational success and social mobility.
ahc.leeds.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Please join me on 12th November at my @universityofleeds.bsky.social professorial inaugural lecture on ‘Language Diversity and Social (In)justice’. More info here, including a link at the bottom to book a ticket (which is free but we need to track numbers): ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/even...
Looking forward to connecting with teachers & colleagues today at this conference. @iancushing.bsky.social and I will be imagining futures of linguistic justice (tho I’ll be the Debby Downer talking about deficit perspectives first…)
We can't wait for the UKLA/NEU Conference this weekend, and you still have time to get a ticket! With fantastic keynotes and a series of enlightening workshops, the event will no doubt be the best thing you can do for £10 this weekend. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/literacy-i...
September 13, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Looking forward to connecting with teachers & colleagues today at this conference. @iancushing.bsky.social and I will be imagining futures of linguistic justice (tho I’ll be the Debby Downer talking about deficit perspectives first…)
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📣 2 years ago, Sir Keir Starmer pledged to embed #oracy in the curriculum. Today, a coalition of parliamentarians, education experts & schools are calling on him to deliver on that pledge.
Read the letter here: voice21.org/open-letter/
Read the letter here: voice21.org/open-letter/
Open Letter to the Prime Minister - Voice 21
voice21.org
July 23, 2025 at 4:21 AM
📣 2 years ago, Sir Keir Starmer pledged to embed #oracy in the curriculum. Today, a coalition of parliamentarians, education experts & schools are calling on him to deliver on that pledge.
Read the letter here: voice21.org/open-letter/
Read the letter here: voice21.org/open-letter/
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According to @snelljulia.bsky.social:
“Pupils who experience dialogic teaching and learning will develop their oral language skills, gain confidence and build relationships (by becoming more patient and attuned to others’ perspectives)."
Read full article here 👇
voice21.org/voice-21-lau...
“Pupils who experience dialogic teaching and learning will develop their oral language skills, gain confidence and build relationships (by becoming more patient and attuned to others’ perspectives)."
Read full article here 👇
voice21.org/voice-21-lau...
July 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
According to @snelljulia.bsky.social:
“Pupils who experience dialogic teaching and learning will develop their oral language skills, gain confidence and build relationships (by becoming more patient and attuned to others’ perspectives)."
Read full article here 👇
voice21.org/voice-21-lau...
“Pupils who experience dialogic teaching and learning will develop their oral language skills, gain confidence and build relationships (by becoming more patient and attuned to others’ perspectives)."
Read full article here 👇
voice21.org/voice-21-lau...
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me and @snelljulia.bsky.social are doing a joint keynote at this UKLA/NEU conference, talking about futures of linguistic justice and designing linguistically just schools 💜
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/literacy-i...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/literacy-i...
Literacy in Primary Classrooms Conference
Join the NEU and UKLA for our Literacy in Primary Classrooms Conference!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
July 3, 2025 at 4:42 AM
me and @snelljulia.bsky.social are doing a joint keynote at this UKLA/NEU conference, talking about futures of linguistic justice and designing linguistically just schools 💜
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/literacy-i...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/literacy-i...
New research published in @languageeducation.bsky.social, available open access here (tinyurl.com/bdf262jp) and a short thread on the work below. Many thanks to the reviewers & editors for their feedback and to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding support.
July 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
New research published in @languageeducation.bsky.social, available open access here (tinyurl.com/bdf262jp) and a short thread on the work below. Many thanks to the reviewers & editors for their feedback and to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding support.
Fantastic resource providing a series of ‘talking points’ to support schools on their oracy journeys. Happy to have contributed a piece on why dialogic classrooms are so important for learning. I’d love to here what you think 👇
🚨 Today we are releasing our annual journal, The Talking Point 🚨
Whether you’re a classroom teacher, a school leader, or someone involved in shaping school-wide strategy, we hope this journal offers valuable insights to support your oracy journey.
Read it here 👇
voice21.org/voice-21-lau...
Whether you’re a classroom teacher, a school leader, or someone involved in shaping school-wide strategy, we hope this journal offers valuable insights to support your oracy journey.
Read it here 👇
voice21.org/voice-21-lau...
July 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Fantastic resource providing a series of ‘talking points’ to support schools on their oracy journeys. Happy to have contributed a piece on why dialogic classrooms are so important for learning. I’d love to here what you think 👇
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I’ve just read a very significant, utterly compelling article by @snelljulia.bsky.social on her research on classroom dialogue. If you read just one piece of research on Oracy between now and the summer, make it this! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Using linguistic ethnography to uncover the mechanisms through which underprivileged students are denied access to classroom dialogue
This article opens up the ‘black box’ of classroom interaction to investigate why opportunities to participate in academically productive (or ‘dialogic’) classroom discussion may be more readily av...
www.tandfonline.com
July 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I’ve just read a very significant, utterly compelling article by @snelljulia.bsky.social on her research on classroom dialogue. If you read just one piece of research on Oracy between now and the summer, make it this! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We were very lucky to have an inspiring talk from @lucyjones.bsky.social at @universityofleeds.bsky.social yesterday. If you want to know how to conduct effective intersectional analysis, read her book when it’s released later this year. Mine is on preorder! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/language-...
Language and LGBTQ+ Youth
This book takes a queer linguistic and intersectional approach to the analysis of young LGBTQ+ people's identity constructions, showing how their language use r…
www.bloomsbury.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:25 AM
We were very lucky to have an inspiring talk from @lucyjones.bsky.social at @universityofleeds.bsky.social yesterday. If you want to know how to conduct effective intersectional analysis, read her book when it’s released later this year. Mine is on preorder! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/language-...
It was a privilege to be at the inaugural lecture of my colleague
@cgregoriou.bsky.social this evening, which included a theatrical adaptation of the memoirs of a Greek Cypriot sergeant in the British Army during WWII. Fantastic stuff!
@cgregoriou.bsky.social this evening, which included a theatrical adaptation of the memoirs of a Greek Cypriot sergeant in the British Army during WWII. Fantastic stuff!
Christiana Gregoriou & George Rodosthenous Present:
Memoirs of a P.O.W.
Featuring Stylianos Thomadakis
Timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of VE Day, we bring to life - and the stage - the true story of a Cypriot sergeant in the British Army during WWII.
All welcome!
Memoirs of a P.O.W.
Featuring Stylianos Thomadakis
Timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of VE Day, we bring to life - and the stage - the true story of a Cypriot sergeant in the British Army during WWII.
All welcome!
May 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It was a privilege to be at the inaugural lecture of my colleague
@cgregoriou.bsky.social this evening, which included a theatrical adaptation of the memoirs of a Greek Cypriot sergeant in the British Army during WWII. Fantastic stuff!
@cgregoriou.bsky.social this evening, which included a theatrical adaptation of the memoirs of a Greek Cypriot sergeant in the British Army during WWII. Fantastic stuff!
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New blog with Julia Snell @snelljulia.bsky.social published by the Higher Education Policy Institute @hepi-news.bsky.social
💡We encourage Higher Education senior leaders to take proactive steps to tackle accent bias to foster a more inclusive and equitable Higher Education system.
💡We encourage Higher Education senior leaders to take proactive steps to tackle accent bias to foster a more inclusive and equitable Higher Education system.
New Post: Tackling accent bias in Higher Education could improve students’ success, sense of belonging, and wellbeing www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/04/17/t...
April 17, 2025 at 8:32 AM
New blog with Julia Snell @snelljulia.bsky.social published by the Higher Education Policy Institute @hepi-news.bsky.social
💡We encourage Higher Education senior leaders to take proactive steps to tackle accent bias to foster a more inclusive and equitable Higher Education system.
💡We encourage Higher Education senior leaders to take proactive steps to tackle accent bias to foster a more inclusive and equitable Higher Education system.
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KNOWLEDGE FOR ORACY
A full-day teacher conference to help schools get to grips with the language knowledge that teachers need to make oracy a success @barbarableiman.bsky.social @englangblog.bsky.social @robdrummond.bsky.social @lucystrike7.bsky.social englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/632d...
A full-day teacher conference to help schools get to grips with the language knowledge that teachers need to make oracy a success @barbarableiman.bsky.social @englangblog.bsky.social @robdrummond.bsky.social @lucystrike7.bsky.social englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/632d...
January 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
KNOWLEDGE FOR ORACY
A full-day teacher conference to help schools get to grips with the language knowledge that teachers need to make oracy a success @barbarableiman.bsky.social @englangblog.bsky.social @robdrummond.bsky.social @lucystrike7.bsky.social englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/632d...
A full-day teacher conference to help schools get to grips with the language knowledge that teachers need to make oracy a success @barbarableiman.bsky.social @englangblog.bsky.social @robdrummond.bsky.social @lucystrike7.bsky.social englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/632d...
My lovely UG student is investigating differences between GCSE & A-level English Lang curriculums & reasons for the decrease in numbers of students studying Eng Lang A-level. If you teach A Level students (of any subject) could you ask them to complete this survey? shorturl.at/ghgXI
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February 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
My lovely UG student is investigating differences between GCSE & A-level English Lang curriculums & reasons for the decrease in numbers of students studying Eng Lang A-level. If you teach A Level students (of any subject) could you ask them to complete this survey? shorturl.at/ghgXI
Happy birthday EMC! Excited to be part of this event!
Celebrate EMC's birthday!
To mark our 50th anniversary we're scheduling a series of hybrid conference/ CPD events for teachers. First up is Linguistically-Informed Oracy @robdrummond.bsky.social @snelljulia.bsky.social @barbarableiman.bsky.social englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/632d...
To mark our 50th anniversary we're scheduling a series of hybrid conference/ CPD events for teachers. First up is Linguistically-Informed Oracy @robdrummond.bsky.social @snelljulia.bsky.social @barbarableiman.bsky.social englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/632d...
January 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Happy birthday EMC! Excited to be part of this event!