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Alex Ding

Alex Ding

@alexanderding

Not active here anymore. Prof of English for Academic Purposes Interests: scholarship, social theory, practitioners, agency, EAP, politics of HE, Bourdieu.

เข้าร่วม Şubat 2010
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Alex Ding
Alex Ding@alexanderding·
It appears its finally out now. Working with all the chapter authors has been a great pleasure, especially my co-editor @LaetitiaM19 - this volume should be of interest to #tleap @baleap
Alex Ding@alexanderding

bloomsbury.com/uk/practitione… I co-edited this volume with @LaetitiaM19. We wrote a chapter on socio-analysis of the field of EAP. Some excellent contributions from around the world by @BeeBond1 @Namali_T @tanzela @MichelleJoube18 @PhDgirlSA @IwonaPringle @sarahtee7

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Yanhua Liu, PhD
Yanhua Liu, PhD@yanhualiu_nie·
I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Lecturer (Teaching & Scholarship) in English for Academic Purposes at the Language Centre, @UniversityLeeds ! I’m excited to work with colleagues at this well-established language centre and Russell Group university.
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Alex Ding@alexanderding·
Bee Bond & I are giving a hybrid talk ‘Language & Legitimation in Higher Education’ Wednesday, November 20 5-7pm at the University of Leeds This is our joint inaugural public lecture to mark our promotion to Professor of EAP details in the link #tleap eventbrite.co.uk/e/profs-bee-bo…
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Ian Bruce
Ian Bruce@IanBruc19234684·
Some interesting thoughts in this article. Knowing Neoliberalism: Social Epistemology: Vol 33 , No 4 - Get Access tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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Alex Ding@alexanderding·
@ronald_hartz I have just finished reading it. I'll be recommending it to all colleagues. Its very lucid and the sections on university finances and accounting were brilliant. I wish all the authors well and thank you for having written it
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Alex Ding@alexanderding·
theguardian.com/education/2024… It would be interesting to know the socio-economic backgrounds of academic staff and how many had been educated in private schools. And whether there are disciplinary differences in staff privately educated
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Alex Ding@alexanderding·
4/4 It was a pleasure to write this with Laetitia and she was very much the architect of this book. I’m glad I could contribute to it. It was also uncomfortable to write as we came to arguments and conclusions that we think will provoke. Below is a tiny extract
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Alex Ding@alexanderding·
3/4 We have tried to discuss social justice and Higher Education by considering the role of language ontology, of ethics and social theory, and of pedagogy. We use social semiotics and Bourdieu's field theory to address these issues.
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Alex Ding@alexanderding·
1/4 @LaetitiaM19 and I have just submitted our manuscript to Palgrave and our book ' Recovering Language in Higher Education: Social Justice, Ethics and Practices' should be published in the next few months.
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Alex Ding@alexanderding·
@RobPlayfair It is dead here. I have opened an account on Bluesky but not done much there. If we want #tleap discussions I doubt it will happen here (never mind the ethics of X) and we might want to think about setting up a space elsewhere collectively. At the moment its very fragmented
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Rob Playfair
Rob Playfair@RobPlayfair·
Despite only tweeting and liking the niche topic of #tleap my timeline on this app shows me anything but... Where can online discussions happen now? Linkedin? BALEAP mailing list? Mastodon? Missed this at the time but reposting as it's a good question with good thread so far.
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@AL_BALEAP and other #tleap colleagues - what would you say are the major contributions of Ac Lits to EAP? and conversely, what are the contributions of EAP to Ac Lits (if any)?

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Alex Ding@alexanderding·
@ronald_hartz My copy will arrive tomorrow. Im not sure looking forward to reading it is the right expression. I'm sure it'll be insightful and useful though
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Alex Ding@alexanderding·
@AL_BALEAP perhaps cynically radical ideas allow for quite conventional rewards too
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Academic Literacies SIG@AL_BALEAP·
@alexanderding Having just now read the paper ( doi:10.1017/S0267190524000023 ), it is transformative justice (TJ), not linguistics, but which looks at language in TJ. Some of the claims in it do seem somewhat at odds by their appearing in a Cambridge journal and written in a formal register.
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Academic Literacies SIG@AL_BALEAP·
"social justice in linguistics is about the radical transformation of structures to uproot dominant language ideologies." By this definition, is social justice in linguistics possible? Is it even linguistics? What would this transformation actually look like in practice?
Ian Cushing@ian_cushing

building futures of social justice in linguistics is not about modifying individual minds to become more accepting of non-dominant language patterns. social justice in linguistics is about the radical transformation of structures to uproot dominant language ideologies.

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Alex Ding@alexanderding·
@AL_BALEAP or that linguistics would mean something quite different post-capitalism? Whatever the case, its a nice slogan but thats all
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Academic Literacies SIG@AL_BALEAP·
@alexanderding I assume so too, or something along those lines. But it's hard to see how linguistics would result in that unless it was some other practice else altogether going under the name of linguistics.
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Alex Ding@alexanderding·
@AL_BALEAP thanks for that! As an aside & not meant to question your response Joan Turner wrote 'At the risk of sounding a bit ruthless, I would argue that we should be less caring and more critical.' Would you say Ac lits acts then more as an ethical prompt to practitioners than anything?
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Academic Literacies SIG@AL_BALEAP·
@alexanderding Less biomechanical and more critical and humanist answers to the questions such as who is in the room, why are they in that room, how did they find themselves there and so on. Also a wider and broader appreciation and understanding of which contextual factors matter most.
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Alex Ding@alexanderding·
@AL_BALEAP and other #tleap colleagues - what would you say are the major contributions of Ac Lits to EAP? and conversely, what are the contributions of EAP to Ac Lits (if any)?
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