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Grace Yue Qi @qiyuegrace.bsky.social · Jul 21

The Taiwan Centre for Mandarin Learning offers an alternative to
Confucius Institutes. How could it be used to support Chinese language education in Australia? Check out this article in @melbasiareview by @Dr Jeffrey Gil, Dr Minglei Wang & me www.melbourneasiareview.edu.au/the-taiwan-c...

The Taiwan Centre for Mandarin Learning in Australia: Policy Recommendations | Melbourne Asia Review

TCMLs could help Chinese language learning in Australia, but there are significant political sensititivies.

www.melbourneasiareview.edu.au

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ALANZ: Applied Linguistics in Aotearoa New Zealand @alanzofficial.bsky.social · Jul 10

📢 VUW is hiring an Ian Gordon Fellow (3 months, 2026) in linguistics/applied linguistics.
Propose your own project. Must have NZ work rights.
🗓️ Apply by 17 Oct 2025 🔗https://ejye.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/1007965
#AcademicJobs #Linguistics #Postdoc

Post Doctoral Fellow

Support research in Te Kura Tātari Reo - School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies.

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Grace Yue Qi @qiyuegrace.bsky.social · Jun 6

Thanks for this wonderful collaboration @karenashton.bsky.social

Karen Ashton @karenashton.bsky.social · Jun 6

Hot off the press! Pleased to share that this article with
@qiyuegrace.bsky.social is now available online (and open access!).
'Teacher positioning of their practice for linguistically and culturally diverse learners'
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Teacher positioning of their practice for linguistically and culturally diverse learners

This article draws on open-response survey data (n = 86) to qualitatively explore New Zealand language teachers’ positioning of their pedagogical practice for linguistically and culturally diverse ...

www.tandfonline.com

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ALANZ: Applied Linguistics in Aotearoa New Zealand @alanzofficial.bsky.social · May 28

📣 Call for Papers: ALANZ Symposium 2025
🗓️ 22 Nov | 📍Univ. of Waikato
Theme: Voices of Change
Explore applied linguistics' impact on identity, policy, and justice.
Abstracts due: 15 Aug
🔗 Details: www.ivvy.com.au/event/NSB63P/
#ALANZ2025 #AppliedLinguistics

ALANZ SYMPOSIUM 2025

www.ivvy.com.au

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ALANZ: Applied Linguistics in Aotearoa New Zealand @alanzofficial.bsky.social · May 21

Very delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 ALANZ Best PhD Thesis Competition, Dr Dana Taylor, whose thesis is entitled: Professional identity positioning of internationally qualified nurses during workplace interactions with colleagues in New Zealand healthcare settings. youtu.be/zzTXOxtD4F8

Best PhD Thesis 2024: Dana Taylor

YouTube video by ALANZ Applied Linguistics Association of NZ

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ALANZ: Applied Linguistics in Aotearoa New Zealand @alanzofficial.bsky.social · May 9

Please see the link below to a podcast on language policy made by Sharon Harvey, Lanuola Moe and Susan Warren. It is part of Language Teaching Matters Aotearoa New Zealand - a new series being created for language teachers. open.spotify.com/show/3IPGCZz...
Please share widely!

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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ALANZ: Applied Linguistics in Aotearoa New Zealand @alanzofficial.bsky.social · May 8

2nd Writing SIG Symposium - Call for Proposals
We invite abstracts for presentations at the 2nd ALANZ Writing SIG symposium. The conference will be held in person at: Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University’s Manawatū Campus
Friday 29 August, 2025 – 9.00am to 5.00pm

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ALANZ: Applied Linguistics in Aotearoa New Zealand @alanzofficial.bsky.social · Apr 28

NZSAL has published its second article of 2025.
'The perceptions of undergraduate mainland Chinese students of the effect of English instruction on their ability to write academic English' by Yinghan Zhu and Pat Strauss www.alanz.org.nz/journals/vol...

31(1) 2025 Archives - ALANZ

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Grace Yue Qi @qiyuegrace.bsky.social · Mar 25

Our co-authored paper is now published in Language Learning & Technology (LLT).
"Fostering intercultural sensitivity in language learning: Quality talk in telecollaboration." hdl.handle.net/10125/73624

Fostering intercultural sensitivity in language learning: Quality talk in telecollaboration

Telecollaboration has received growing interest in language education as a way of fostering intercultural learning. While the body of literature primarily focuses on the impact of telecollaborative pr...

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Susy Macqueen @susymacqueen.bsky.social · Feb 5

Thank you ALANZ - We look forward to hearing more about ALANZ 2025. The ALTAANZ separate conference this year will be held online 11-13 November 2025, so no need to travel!

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ALANZ: Applied Linguistics in Aotearoa New Zealand @alanzofficial.bsky.social · Feb 5

We hope 2025 is going well for you so far! This year’s symposium will be hosted by Waikato University, Sat 22 Nov 2025. We hope this helps with your planning, and we will update you further as planning progresses. Future joint ALAA/ALANZ/ALTAANZ conferences are seen attached.

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Grace Yue Qi @qiyuegrace.bsky.social · Nov 15

Publication day!
Our coauthored paper, Becoming and being language teacher educators: a collaborative reflexive account, is out!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Becoming and being language teacher educators: a collaborative reflexive account

In this study we employed reflexivity as a typology and a means to foster our own becoming and being as language teacher educators (LTEs). Specifically, drawing on reflexivity as mutual collaborati...

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Grace Yue Qi @qiyuegrace.bsky.social · Jun 5

My co-authored paper on telecollaboration for internationalisation at home in tertiary education is now published in @DistEdJournal - this link brings you to 50 free online copies of our article. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SEPSJ...

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Grace Yue Qi @qiyuegrace.bsky.social · May 31

Pleased to see this fantastic volume (eds: Laura Gurney & Lakshman Wedikkarage) published! link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… My chapter explores teachers' perspectives of culturally responsive pedagogy in Aotearoa NZ language classrooms https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-57484-9_7

Exploring Culturally Responsive Pedagogy for Multilingual Education in Aotearoa New Zealand Language Classrooms: Perspectives of Teachers

Linguistic and cultural diversity and the dominance of English have shaped educational responses to languages and language-in-education policies in Aotearoa New Zealand (Qi GY (2021) Early Mandarin Ch...

link.springer.com

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ALANZ: Applied Linguistics in Aotearoa New Zealand @alanzofficial.bsky.social · May 27

Here are the programmes for the LL15 conference that starts on 20th June and the Winter School linguisticlandscape15.weebly.com/ll15.html linguisticlandscape15.weebly.com/nz-ll-winter... It's not too late to register for these exciting events! linguisticlandscape15.weebly.com/registration...

LL15

Full draft programme available here ! Abstracts available here !

linguisticlandscape15.weebly.com

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · May 6

"Children have only one brain but we treat them as if they had different ones for different languages, each administered by a different school."- Joe Lo Bianco on the latest Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
www.languageonthemove.com/community-la...

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ALANZ: Applied Linguistics in Aotearoa New Zealand @alanzofficial.bsky.social · Feb 19

The ALAA/ALANZ/ALTAANZ conference 2024 call for abstracts will open 14 March and close 31 May. For further details, visit alaa2024.com If you have any questions about the upcoming conference, please contact the organisers at [email protected]

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ALANZ: Applied Linguistics in Aotearoa New Zealand @alanzofficial.bsky.social · Feb 19

Keynote speakers of the ALAA/ALANZ/ALTAANZ Conference 25-27 Nov 2024: Judit Kormos (Lancaster Uni), Noriko Iwashita (Uni of Queensland), Maria Cioè-Peña (Uni of Pennsylvania), Sophie Tauwehe Tamati (Uni of Auckland), & Theresa Sainty (Uni of Tasmania). alaa2024.com

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lauraskh.bsky.social · Feb 3

Great new research by @agib.bsky.social on universities' complex and sometimes contradictory discourses on international students' English proficiency
#Langsky #Linguistics
doi.org/10.1080/0729...

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Grace Yue Qi @qiyuegrace.bsky.social · Nov 27

Call for bilingual/multilingual Aotearoa NZ families! Pls help fill out and/or circulate the survey (20-30 mins) about bilingual/multilingual home language practices and circumstances of language maintenance/transmission survey.kau.se/Survey/20328

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Grace Yue Qi @qiyuegrace.bsky.social · Nov 27

Our paper is now available in International Journal of Chinese Language Teaching. doi.org/10.46451/ijc... We look forward to the online seminar to discuss 'TELL in Chinese language education' on 16 Dec 2023. All welcome! Huge thanks to the SI editor A/Prof Xiaoping Gao!

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Grace Yue Qi @qiyuegrace.bsky.social · Nov 27

Call for bilingual/multilingual Aotearoa NZ families! Pls help fill out and/or circulate the survey (20-30 mins) about bilingual/multilingual home language practices and circumstances of language maintenance/transmission survey.kau.se/Survey/20328

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Grace Yue Qi @qiyuegrace.bsky.social · Nov 22

Welcome 😊

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Nov 21

Universities are chopping languages programs because we now have AI and auto-translate. Should you believe the hype?

theconversation.com/your-united-...

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · Nov 15

Students using AI as a way of “correcting” their writing is a direct consequence of instructors prioritizing prescriptivist conventions over supporting students in developing unique authorial voices. How about we use this as a chance to shift our priorities?

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