Applied Linguistics & Communication at Newcastle

Social Interaction and Dramatic Performance: Staging Conversations is out today: Bloomsbury.com/9781350038332/ If you'll be at #BAAL2025, catch author Spencer Hazel's plenary talk on Friday 5th Sept at 11:30, then head over to the Bloomsbury book exhibit for a closer look! @__BAAL

An Around the World Club yesterday learnt Chinese while making red envelopes for new year! hundred.org/en/innovations… @EnactEuropa

We are pleased to introduce Research Synthesis in Applied Linguistics, a new journal published by Taylor & Francis📣📣 Soft launch: 4th Dec 2024 (at the @__BAAL RSAL SIG AGM - online) Online official launch: 13th Jan 2025 In-person official launch: late Mar 2025 (at @AAALinks)

Webinar delivered by Newcastle University and Hong Kong University on Cultural Artefact Creation using digital tools. hku.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Check out this special issue co-edited by two Applied Linguistics superstars in our team!

Less than a year since the hardback version came out …so, we are chuffed with the news that the paperback format is on its way already!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🥳💙 @RoutledgeLing @LinguisticsEd routledge.com/Reflexivity-in…

Some insights from the @BritishAcademy_ funded project ESRI that explored the barriers faced by highly-skilled refugee women as they look for employment in the UK

@profzhuhua @drdavidweidai (3/3) The ALR special issue closes with an open forum, with implications of #AI for ICC being considered by a range of experts, including @profzhuhua, @drjohnoregan, @drdavidweidai, @shungosuzuki, Rodney Jones, Chris Jenks, and others (open access): degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

@profzhuhua @drdavidweidai (2/3) Within the special issue, our own Adam Brandt & Spencer Hazel consider if #generativeAI might lead to interculturally adaptive #ConversationalAI (open access): degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

What are the implications of #ArtificialIntelligence for #InterculturalCommunication? 🤖🌎💬 A forthcoming special issue of Applied Linguistics Review, edited by @profzhuhua & @drdavidweidai, explores this. (1/3)

The UK Council for International Student Affairs (UKCISA) awarded the Paul Webley Award for Innovation in International Education to Alina Schartner for the project ‘Beyond cultural differences: Critical intercultural orientation workshops for newly arrived students’.

We use 2 separate complex adaptive systems in combination when we talk – the interaction engine and language(s). edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-human-spo… #CA #conversationanalysis @AAALinks @MLAnews @AILAmatters @alanz_nz

We use 2 separate complex adaptive systems in combination when we talk - the interaction engine and language(s). @_BAAL @_langlearning @ISCAupdates #EMCA #interaction #discourse edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-human-spo…

"We need to create places where people can bravely and proudly share their stories." – Shelly C.Lowe @NEHchair @federation_hss #congressh @tyos_project @ResearchArtsUL @SorchaPollak

Following the success of our event on Higher Ed’s "Language Problem", I'm excited to announce the launch of the ‘Multilingual University Network’ within the Society for Research into Higher Education (@SRHE73), convened by myself, Sal Consoli, Dylan Williams, and Jennie Li [李蓁]

After a week of @NCL_ALC researchers giving a range of talks at the 4th @icopl2 conference in Kolding, Denmark, it's our turn to host it next. We're looking forward to welcoming interactional researchers to Newcastle in 2026. #ICOPL2 #interactionalcompetence #practices #EMCA

Second language testing among the areas of expertise considered for this lectureship in #AppliedLinguistics & #TESOL (equivalent to Assistant Professor) @UniofNewcastle, UK. jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastle-…