Dr Anna Tristram

Daphne Jackson Trust Research Fellow @MMLL_Cambridge
&
Equality Charters Project Manager @Cambridge_Uni

Tweeting in a personal capacity

[Emma Cayley 谷曦 @emmacayley.bsky.social @emmacayley]

‘Language is not an ancillary service. It is crucial for expanding understanding of key issues of our age beyond anglophone perspectives and assumptions.’ A response by @ILCS_SAS @UCFLangs and @StAModLangs

[billy clark @billylinguist]

Dick Hudson on what he calls the ‘Knowledge About Language desert’ in UK schools and universities

Language at school: literature or linguistics? | Journal of the British Academy
https://t.co/kpnZPHCG1u

[Dr Anna Tristram @AnnaTristram]

Looking forward to starting my new role today @Cambridge_Uni as Equality Charters Project Manager.

[Dr Anna Tristram @AnnaTristram]

Wonderful to see this volume out celebrating the work of @WendyBennett21 Many thanks to the editors Olivia Walsh, Mairi McLaughlin and Janice Carruthers. Chapter 15 is my contribution, with a project I started way back in 2017.

[Dr Anna Tristram @AnnaTristram]

@DrStevenWilson @ModLangs_QUB Many congratulations Steven! 🎊 well deserved 👏

[Tony Thorne @tonythorne007]

Here it is if you missed it…English just 'badly pronounced French', Paris academic says https://t.co/J98EdDxSWy

[Dr Anna Tristram @AnnaTristram]

Very cool study! ❄️

[Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social @charlesforsdick]

'Your United States was normal': has translation tech really made language learning redundant? https://t.co/SZhst976RA via @ConversationEDU

[Rob Drummond @RobDrummond]

“But really it’s not the way people speak that needs adjusting. It’s the way we as a society listen that has to shift.” Rob Drummond decodes accent prejudice
https://t.co/yj52SZk7ye

[Dr Anna Tristram @AnnaTristram]

@grbails Like=not like
Train strike for my commute tomorrow, literally no other public transport options 🙄

[Dr Anna Tristram @AnnaTristram]

@dquirkylinguist Intrigued..

[Dr Anna Tristram @AnnaTristram]

😳

[Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru]

Population in Europe that can't speak any foreign language.

[Dr Anna Tristram @AnnaTristram]

'By speaking a second language, we can even become more rational, more open-minded and better equipped to deal with uncertainty. This phenomenon is known as the “foreign language effect”' https://t.co/fYWvRgsylU

[Dr Anna Tristram @AnnaTristram]

Well said George!

[George Wⓐlkden @gwalkden]

Linguistics is pretty sidelined disciplinarily everywhere, but it’s interesting to see *how* it’s sidelined. It differs quite a lot between the two countries I know best, Germany and the UK. (1/)

[Médéric Gasquet-Cyrus @MedericGC]

Langue ? Dialecte ? Patois ?
(petit fil de… Manche)
Éternelle question qui revient au sujet des langues dites «  régionales » de France… Et ce sont souvent les locuteurs eux-mêmes qui appellent leur langue « du patois »… comme j’ai pu le constater encore en Normandie.
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[Wendy Bennett @WendyBennett21]

Calling all UK secondary schools! @GCHQ is running an online National Language Competition in Nov. for Y9 pupils in England/Wales, Y10 in NI, and S3 in Scotland. For more information on #GCHQNationalLanguageCompetition and to be added to the mailing list contact [email protected]!

[Dr Anna Tristram @AnnaTristram]

Super interesting talk from @dquirkylinguist on Caribbean TikTokers @BritishAcademy_

[Dr Anna Tristram @AnnaTristram]

... whereas, 'pour réussir, il est indispensable que les individus croient en eux, en leur libre arbitre et à la capacité de l’institution de les aider à développer le don de réussir (et non le don des langues) selon le moi idéal de chacun.' @TractLinguistes

[Dr Anna Tristram @AnnaTristram]

Thought-provoking article - I definitely battled against the perception that some people are just 'naturally better' at languages, which encourages some (many?) students to just switch off re languages because they think they are not in that group.

[Tract Linguistes 🐘🦋 @TractLinguistes]

Réussite scolaire : faut-il croire au don pour les langues étrangères ?
Pourquoi l’idéologie du don des langues étrangères est-elle plus néfaste que bénéfique quand il s’agit de penser le rôle de l’école ?

Par Grégory Miras @MirasGre , univ de Lorraine

https://t.co/AVnqnr8YEy