‘oracy’ is a hot topic in England’s education system. in this article i critique the deficit thinking which lies at the core of how oracy was first theorised, how those ideologies continue today, and the flawed theory of social justice which often accompanies it.🔓 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Hello new non-Twitter-but-kind-of-like-Twitter world. The main thing I've been doing recently is writing a book, which is finally coming out early 2025. More detail here: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

At University of Tokyo we are hosting Ryuko Kubota for an invited talk on language education and social justice on December 14. Online hybrid event and non UTokyo educators/scholars are welcome to join!

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Webinar on “History of language policy and planning, and... trends”. 19/12/2024, 15:30 UTC on MS Teams.

Speakers: David Cassels Johnson, US; Jeroen Darquennes, Belgium, moderator Michele Gazzola, Ulster Univ.

Free registration here tinyurl.com/mw8anzey

Starter pack for sociolinguistics.
Let me know if you’d like to be added!
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Dr. Ryuko Kubota’s plenary.

フードトラックのオプションが、（ビールも売る）ケバブと、（ビールも売る）タイ料理と、ビール専門の屋台というのもなかなかのカルチャーショック。そして昼間からビールに興じる参加者。

6年前、同じ場所での開催の時は、ビールではなくコーヒーだった…。ビールもあったのかな…？

インスタの「英語教えます系」コンテンツに、ネイティブスピーカリズムがどう現れているかの発表。すごく面白かった。

しかしなんと表現したら良いか、この「バズれば良い」メカニズムにどう対抗していったら良いのか分からず、怒りのような、無力感のような気持ちに支配された。

#CriticalRealism has a lot of tools for researchers interested in making truth claims. But Deirdre Kelly and I struggled to find methodological advice on what CR research interviewing might look like. Here we share five principles to guide practice! #OpenAccess! doi.org/10.1177/1609...

Hot off the press! My author's copy of Race, Racism, and Antiracism in Language Education, edited by Ryuko Kubota and Su Motha. Grateful to reprint and share more widely my chapter that explores both the challenge and promise of thinking at the intersection of race, sexual identity, and nationality!

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