Paweł Szudarski

Welcome to CRAL! We research how language is used, taught, and learnt in a whole range of authentic contexts in the world around us. 🌏

Stay tuned to find out more about exciting projects and events!

#uoncral #languagelearning #researchcentre #appliedlinguistics #nottinghamuniversity #linguistics

Teaching Literature in the Language Classroom

Join us in Nottingham or online, 30 March 2026

"Teaching Literature in the Language Classroom" Symposium, 30 March 2026, University of Nottingham

Come join us, either in person and online, and enjoy this rich, varied and promising programme. For full details, see below

BAAL Vocabulary Special Interest Group BAAL Vocab SIG

baalvocabsig.wordpress.com

Call for Papers: BAAL Vocabulary SIG Conference, Bangor University, UK
28-29 May 2026

Vocabulary & Bilingualism: Cognitive, Pedagogical, and Social Perspectives

We invite abstracts for papers, posters, and project in progress (MA & PhD students). For full details, please see the link below.

How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science Preprint repositories and conference organizers are having to counter a tide of ‘AI slop’ submissions.

Another story where you realise that absolutely no one has any idea how to deal with all the AI papers being cranked out.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Final reminder about our Nottingham symposium on Teaching Literature in the Language Classroom, 30 March 2026 (fully hybrid event)

Submission deadline is tomorrow, so there's still time to prepare your abstract.

For full details, see the CfP below. We hope many of you will be able to join us!

📢CFP: Teaching Literature in the Language Classroom, Uni. of Nottingham, 30th March 2026 (arr. @stockwell.bsky.social and @jessnorledge.bsky.social ). Send max. 200 word abstract with 5 keywords by 16th Feb. 2026 to: stylistics@nottingham.ac.uk 📢

Come and talk Lit in the Lang classroom with us in Nottingham!

@baal-linguistics.bsky.social
@palapoeticsling.bsky.social
@lagbling.bsky.social
@iatefl.bsky.social

Who Listens to Linguistics Podcasting? A Survey of Lingthusiasm Listeners Podcasting is now an established entertainment medium, and is a useful platform for content that can find a niche global audience outside of traditional broadcast media. Linguistics is one topic that...

New article in Language and Linguistics Compass:

Who Listens to Linguistics Podcasting? A Survey of Lingthusiasm Listeners

It was so great to work with some of the prod team: Martha Tsutsui Billins, Sarah M. Dopierala, Leah Velleman and (of course) @gretchenmcculloch.com

doi.org/10.1111/lnc3...

"This work is hopefully a trailblazer of more to come in the form of resources for educators and ordinary people to bring multilingualism out of the closet."

buff.ly/KNPuZhU

Today is International Day of Education. A day to celebrate educators and the power of education.

#Teaching #Teachers #Education

Writing is thinking

Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.

Check out our newly-published books this month!

📖 "Languages We Live By" (Open Access)

📖 "The Cross-Cultural Parenting Playbook"

📖 "Insights into Disciplinary Literacies"

📖 "The Public Pedagogy of the Master Narrative"

📖 "Insecurities in Language Policy and Planning"

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UK to re-join Erasmus+ – here are six benefits of the European exchange scheme Erasmus+ an accessible and well-supported programme.

theconversation.com/uk-to-re-joi...

Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students meet an AI competency requirement starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026.

It’s been fun while it lasted: “Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students demonstrate basic competency in artificial intelligence starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026.”

www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities? www.wired.com/story/in-a-f...

Universities blame ‘societal shift’ for axing foreign language degrees Numbers taking languages at A-level and beyond has been falling for decades, although Duolingo says its app is most popular with young people

'Michael Lynas, the UK country director for the Duolingo language app, who argues there is no good substitute for the hard graft of learning a language as a way of seeing another country’s culture from the inside.' 1/3

www.podbean.com/ew/pb-dvscn-...
Delighted to share this podcast that I recorded with Prof. Susan Hunston, expert in #corpuslinguistics, English grammar, and former senior grammarian. We talked about the paper “Coming to Terms with Success” (1/3)

lancasteruniversity: Corpus linguistics and new technologies: data, language and society | edX In an era of AI and big data, understanding language through data is essential. This hands-on course from Lancaster University—a global leader in corpus linguistics—teaches you to build, query, and an...

Check it out - the corpus MOOC is back (15th September) on a new platform (edX) exploring new topics, including AI. One thing has not changed - it is still free to access 😁 Find out more here: www.edx.org/learn/social...

Missed out on #CL2025? Four of our wonderful plenary talks are now available to watch on demand!

YouTube links on conference website and in replies:

www.cl2025.co.uk/home

Bill Labov: Looking Back, Looking Forward Bill Labov passed away peacefully at home on December 17, 2024, with his wife and fellow Penn linguist Gillian Sankoff by his side. He leaves behind a legacy so large that it is hard to put into word...

@jslx.bsky.social are proud to publish an obituary for William Labov, written by three of Bill’s students @betsysneller.bsky.social, @laurelmack.bsky.social & M Tamminga. We are grateful to Bill’s colleagues and family for the OA costs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @lhlew.bsky.social

Position Statement on Generative AI in teaching... Position Statement on Generative AI in teaching and research   The Linguistics Discipline in the Department of Languages and Cultures at La Trobe University have developed a discipline-specific posi...

The Linguistics Discipline at La Trobe University have developed a discipline-specific position statement on the role of generative AI in our classrooms.

www.superlinguo.com/post/7908973...

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We are hiring 2 full professors in DH

Join our team @dhssfau.bsky.social @fau.de

2 full professorships in #DigitalHumanities

‼️ Professor in #DH with focus on #HCI

‼️ Professor in #DH with focus on #Place&Space

⏰ Deadline: 2 June 2025

www.fau.eu/people/worki...
@fauphil.bsky.social

Is the UK failing its graduates? Young people are bearing the brunt of a long-term slowdown in the labour market, data shows

'The evidence suggests a degree does still pay off over time, but that the path into well-paid work may be longer and bumpier than in the past.' Low number of graduate jobs, influx of AI cvs and online recruitment processes and shrinking graduate premium (esp. for young women) at issue.

For anybody interested in this topic, the review can be accessed via this link (it's open access):
academic.oup.com/eltj/advance...

This kind of wider discussion and engagement is exactly what I was hoping for when I was writing this review. I think it's important that as a field we consider the ethical and pedagogical uses of AI, calling all stakeholders, including reviewers and publishers, for more attention to this topic.

Benjamin Moorhouse and Hassan Nejadghanbar have just published a great response to my review of 'Vocabulary, corpus and language teaching, an AI-based book.

Thank you both for this response and for all the nice words.

academic.oup.com/eltj/advance...

Record number of universities in deficit Worsening cash crisis presents a ‘grave risk’ to the future of some institutions and courses, say MPs

Now approaching half of all Britain's universities in deficit. Still nothing is done. Every day without a plan will make the eventual reset even more expensive.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...