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Glenn Hadikin @glennhadikin.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thank you @baal2025.bsky.social for an exciting and inspiring few days including the @baal-linguistics.bsky.social EC meeting on Wednesday.

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BAAL Language and Education for Social Justice SIG @baal-lesj-sig.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thanks to everyone who joined our Social Justice Linguistic Walk in Glasgow—Merchant City → East End → Barras. We read the city like a text: cones, plaques, shopfronts, murals & more. Big love for your keen eyes & generous chat. Blog & map soon. #LanguageJustice #BAAL2025 @baal2025.bsky.social

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Yen Dang @yendang101.bsky.social · Sep 8

Excited to have presented our British Council project with @huahuizhao.bsky.social on how international students use ChatGPT to inform vocabulary choices in disciplinary writing at #BAAL2025 @baal2025.bsky.social @britishcouncil.bsky.social @educationatleeds.bsky.social

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TESOLAcademic @tesolacademic.bsky.social · 28d

Successful campaign for plaque in honour of #PitCorder - founding figure of & one of the most influential in C20th #AppliedLinguistics. #LanguageEducation #TESOL #BALL #IATEFL #BritishCouncil @baal2025.bsky.social @iatefl.bsky.social @britishcouncil.bsky.social
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Plaque Unveiled to York-born Linguist Pit Corder thanks to York St John University student research

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UofGTesol @uofgtesol.bsky.social · Sep 7

Great to see our MSc/MEd TESOL students volunteering at the @baal2025.bsky.social annual conference at UofG @uofglasgow.bsky.social Also, to have a former MSc TESOL student coming back giving poster presentations on their PhD!

Sally Zacharias @salzacharias.bsky.social · Sep 7

A sign of a good conference is when you come away afresh, with new ideas & feeling more hopeful about the world. And after #BAAL2025 I do!!

Organiser and volunteers at reception desk

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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · Sep 6

We're off! @louisstrange.bsky.social now presenting on the sexism underlying negative stances towards women football commentators: shrill voices are annoying, apparently! #BAAL2025

Louis in front of a ppt slide showing the title of the talk

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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · Sep 6

Next up, Jiaqi Tian shares her research into Chinese EFL teachers' views on teaching gender/sexuality. Here we see a mind map used in her research with novice teachers! #BAAL2025 @lgas-baal.bsky.social

Jiaqi in front of a ppt showing a mind map

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BAAL Language, Gender & Sexuality SIG @lgas-baal.bsky.social · Sep 6

For info on how to become the BAAL SIG new secretary see here ⤵️

#BAAL2025

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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thanks to the #BAAL2025 audience today - and please join us in the @lgas-baal.bsky.social SIG!

Front page of the SIG website https://baalgensex.wordpress.com/

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Stephen Pihlaja @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social · Sep 6

For all the people on Bluesky, you get this about fifteen minutes early: www.baal2026.com #baal2026 #baal2025

BAAL 2026

1- 3 September 2026

www.baal2026.com

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BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguistics) @baal-linguistics.bsky.social · Sep 6

The applied linguistics community came together in many ways at #BAAL2025, including AILA and BAAL at the start of the conference (just after first plenary). Picture shows L-R: Melanie van den Hoven, Caroline Tagg, Markus Bieswanger, Shameem Rafik-Galea, Alex Ho-Cheong Leung, Agnes He.

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BAAL Conference 2025 @baal2025.bsky.social · Sep 6

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us at BAAL 2025 this year! Your talks, posters and discussions made the conference a great success.
Looking forward to BAAL 2026!

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Liliia Bespala @liliiabespala.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thrilled to present at #BAAL2025, the biggest conference in Applied Linguistics!
I shared research on advice giving in primary care, co-authored with my brilliant mentors @charlottealbury.bsky.social and Miriam Meyerhoff. Grateful for the chance to contribute @baal2025.bsky.social

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Toru Yamagami @toruyamagami.bsky.social · Sep 6

My first time at BAAL and it was such a wonderful experience! Grateful for the chance to meet amazing new colleagues - truly a treasure! Huge thanks to @baal2025.bsky.social 😊

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Toru Yamagami @toruyamagami.bsky.social · Sep 6

The first day of the @baal2025.bsky.social conference was brilliant! More importantly, meeting in person two great ‘Senpai’ was special to me😃it’s a small world🥹

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Robbie Love @robbielove.org · Sep 6

After a brilliant week in Glasgow @baal2025.bsky.social, we’re already looking forward to next year’s conference at Aston University! #BAAL2025 ➡️ #BAAL2026 @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social

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Dobrochna Futro @dobrochnafutro.bsky.social · Sep 6

And now @janecatlin.bsky.social is taking us on a journey of art and languages for #inclusion and social justice #BAAL2025 @karen-scilt.bsky.social @laviniahirsu.bsky.social @scilt.bsky.social @strath-ioe.bsky.social @baal2025.bsky.social

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Sal Consoli @salconsoli.bsky.social · Sep 4

And the winner of this year BAAL Book Prize is…. 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 @baal2025.bsky.social

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Sal Consoli @salconsoli.bsky.social · Sep 4

And the runners-up of this year BAAL Book Prize are….🥳🥳🥳 @baal2025.bsky.social

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Sal Consoli @salconsoli.bsky.social · Sep 4

Huge thanks to the publishers who nominated numerous books for this year BAAL Book Prize!! Also - huge congratulations to the fabulous shortlist!!! 🥳🥳 @baal2025.bsky.social

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BAAL Conference 2025 @baal2025.bsky.social · Sep 2

Hello folks! We’ve updated the website to include the full Book of Abstracts for this year’s conference, along with details of a couple of events happening over the weekend that we’d love you to join and will allow you to see more of the great city of Glasgow!
baal2025.wordpress.com

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Bloomsbury Linguistics @bloomsburyling.bsky.social · Sep 1

BAAL 2025 delegates, come to our sponsored coffee break this Friday at 11am!

Chat to our Commissioning Editor Sarah MacDonald, plus two of our series editors who are also BAAL plenary speakers:

⭐️ @lucyjones.bsky.social
⭐️ Angel Lin

More info on their book series below 👇🧵 @baal2025.bsky.social

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BAAL English-Medium Instruction SIG @baal-emi.bsky.social · Aug 29

Join us for an informal EMI SIG get-together at next week’s @baal2025.bsky.social conference in Glasgow.

We’ll meet for a bite & drink after Thursday’s reception. RSVP via [email protected].

Looking forward to seeing many of you there!

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SustainLANG project @University of Turku @sustainlang.bsky.social · Aug 25

Sat 6.9: we are @baal2025.bsky.social hosted by @uofglasgow.bsky.social. "The role of language teaching in saving the world - how to address global challenges through local transformative pedagogical practices for sustainability?"presented by @skuusalu.bsky.social and @minnamaijala.bsky.social

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BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguistics) @baal-linguistics.bsky.social · Aug 29

Not long until the #BAAL2025 conference in Glasgow @baal2025.bsky.social

To celebrate we've shared some stand-out memories of past conference from members, over on LinkedIn:
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Please get involved: we'd love to have more memories and moments!

BAAL 2025 | British Association For Applied Linguistics (BAAL)

Next week, the BAAL annual conference takes place in Glasgow! There is an amazing programme of plenary speakers, SIG events, and panels and presentations. See https://lnkd.in/dZDuSHcb So, as we prepa...

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