@teacherlinguist
Former HS Spanish teacher, current SLA PhD candidate at UW Madison. Interested in language identity and ideologies in the classroom. When not chasing my kid, find me reading fantasy or stress baking.
There’s a church in Madison that specifically is tearing down their building and working with the city to build affordable housing; I think they’re going to use one part of it as a church/gatbering space still. It’s pretty cool!
Having a grad student newsletter talk about how summer is a “calendar white space” and good for micro credentials and skill building is really infuriating as a grad student parent. We’re not all 23 free of obligations and financial precariousness.
I emerge from my maternity leave to share that I’m going to ACTFL in New Orleans this coming November! This time I’m presenting some research from my dissertation. Feels good after getting a desk rejection for a paper a few weeks ago that made me feel like I don’t belong in academia.
It’s definitely not! And he’s way oversimplified the way it’s viewed in SLA.
It’s also a misunderstanding of UG (which I’m not a pronponent of coming from sociocultural theories of acquisition). It’s the universal capacity for language, not that there is something universal about all languages. Now I’m annoyed and want to read more from this guy.
Today in “weird researcher milestones”: I no longer cringe when I hear myself speaking when doing interview transcripts.
Please stop boosting these "alt" govt accounts. I know their content sounds good, but it is often unconfirmed rumors and things they could have no way to know. I know some of them have websites that make them seem real, but look close—no real info, buisness status, but ...hmm, weird they sell merch.
Being a PhD student in my mid-30s often feels frustrating because there is a lot about the system that feels infantalizing. I have a child with another on the way, a mortgage, and already had a career teaching. I’m not a kid fresh out of undergrad (heck, I’ve met faculty younger than me).
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Cool, but I’m just going to keep doing my thing. Don’t pre-comply!
American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12
I’m hoping it won’t amount to anything, but I this is a lot quicker than I thought anything would directly affect my day to day. Like my literal stipend.
Sooooo my PA appointment is part of a federally funded project. That specifically deals with equitable education. 😬
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I’ve been thinking and writing a lot about abolition, liberation, and curricular justice in the field of world language education. I’m honored and excited to share and reflect on this topic during my plenary at the upcoming AAAL conference. I hope you’ll join me!
www.aaal.org/events/aaal-...
ACTFL 2025 proposal submitted! Fingers crossed! Not just because I’ve enjoyed going to and presenting at ACTFL before, but I’ve never been to New Orleans and I’m already daydreaming about the food. I miiiiight use conference travel as an excuse to play tourist, just maybe
Oops ACTFL proposals are due this week and I haven’t started 🫣 going to do a research paper this time and present from my dissertation!
Been slow getting back into work mode after winter break but today I had what felt like a real, productive day!
Hate to admit but the combo of more excercise and getting back to therapy helps 😂
Very inconvenient that Nvivo likes to crash my computer in the middle of coding. Hope this isn’t a sign my computer needs an upgrade; wasn’t planning on that until I graduate!
What I want to do: bake all day and listen to Christmas music
What I’m going to likely do: code data and clean my floors. Maybe also with Christmas music but my kid has some STRONG opinions about what he’ll listen to 😂
Perro con bandera mexicana: me gustan las tortas (sánwiches). Perro con bandera argentina: me gustan las tortas (pasteles).
I’ve also been thinking a LOT about sociolinguistic variation in how kids say words, plus multilingual kids. Early reading isn’t my research area at all but I admit I’m tempted to go down a different rabbit hole just based on what my kid is bringing home.
Sofia Segovia and Ruta Sepetys write wonderful historical fiction! If you like a little mystery as well, I’m enjoying Sherry Thomas’s lady Sherlock series immensely. I also just read The Seventh Veil of Salome and it was brilliant (Silvia Moreno Garcia)
Oh, this was me going back and adding my husband as the “big human” and not changing the rest of the sentence 😂 unfortunately no interesting semantic shifts going on!
The small human, big human, and furry baby were both very excited to have me back! Done with conference travel until ACTFL in 2025; which means I should probably make time to get some papers to journals before this baby comes in spring!
Did similar, mine is Tuesday! Flying in the second trimester was less than comfortable 😅
@clemonsaris.bsky.social & @ujuanya.bsky.social present MI-BRIDGE an open source (FREE!!!!), task-based curriculum that centers Black identities
If you teach Spanish & have Black students (which is almost EVERY Spanish teacher), you need to know about this resource:
laccmibridge.fiu.edu
#actfl24
laccmibridge.fiu.edu gives info and in the menu you can get the resources; all open source!
Let me see if I can get a link to it!
Would have absolutely killed for the MI-BRIDGE curriculum that centers Black students and Black Spanish speakers worldwide when I was in the classroom. What an amazing resource! #actfl24
“Eligibility is ideological” is going to rattle around my head a lot! Awesome work by Tasha Austin and Amina Raysor #actfl24
ACTFL president LJ Randolph on stage at the opening session. A large screen featuring his photo and name are behind him as he stands with his arms spread welcoming attendees
Language learning and education should not be limited to capitalists pursuits.
@proferandolph.bsky.social #actfl24