Stephen Bax

Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the Open University. Tweeting in a personal capacity...

[Kevin Maguire @Kevin_Maguire]

Big Qs for Theresa May who as Home Sec shut the Forensic Science Service in 2012 to privatise tests to firms such as Randox now accused of dodgy evidence in criminal cases

[Debbie Cameron @wordspinster]

LT: want to give a separate shout-out to this BBC world service programme which was broadcast yesterday--if you teach/study language and gender it's well worth a listen. https://t.co/iqr6vBh0YT

[Caroline Tagg @Carotagg]

We're going to @TLANGProject's conference on Communication in the Multilingual City with our colloquium on mobilising resources across media and urban spaces! @terezaspilioti @anthrostream @FrankMonaghan Register here: https://t.co/UgnQeMtkD6

[Pileus Media @thepileus]

In 1989 people were saying Water Privatisation was a scam but they were just ignored and mocked by the newspapers. Well 28 years later, we see they were right all along.

[Stephen Bax @BaxStephen]

@perezparedes Work by my #OpenUniversity colleague @FRosellAguilar on Twitter and apps. See his profile and pubs here: https://t.co/zcPv9JXtLa

[EL Gazette (English Language Gazette) @ELGazette]

Do bilingual schools become middle class ghettos? International studies make uncomfortable reading for the Spanish
https://t.co/nmfJYnQ4Le #bilingual #English #Spain #ELLs #Englishlanguage #ELT #Tefl

[Stephen Bax @BaxStephen]

There’s even a maze on the back to “help Jeremy get to Number 10.”

[Stephen Bax @BaxStephen]

Hard to resist this "Jerry Christmas" item, though sadly it is "for the few rather than the many" as it has a limited run of 250. Plus it has a capitalist price tag of £19! https://t.co/1kkN4lzmzD

[The Independent @Independent]

You can now get a Jeremy Corbyn Advent calendar https://t.co/bR4Jg7doup

[Stephen Bax @BaxStephen]

Great #openaccess publication on English around the world, edited by my former #OpenUniversity colleague Beth Erling, with a contribution by another OU colleague @philipseargeant https://t.co/KX2VxapYfX

[Richard Smith - legacy account @RichardSmithELT]

Open access - This seems a magnificent publication - just published I think https://t.co/NTnoBUklp2

[Stephen Bax @BaxStephen]

Good piece about pompous parliamentary language #sociolinguistics https://t.co/dFh05BmeW7

[Stephen Bax @BaxStephen]

Readable and thought provoking discussion of being 'half Japanese' in Japan. Argues that "nobody living on the archipelago is 'Japanese Japanese' " #sociolinguistics #languageidentity https://t.co/CeG5144hDC

[Mark Makino 【公式】 @Futurealisreal]

Excellent article on this topic, finally, after dozens of terrible ones https://t.co/QTjpH3Fc4v

[Stephen Bax @BaxStephen]

What is happening in Yemen is a shocking disgrace, and Britain has part of the blame: "Yemen: a catastrophe that shames Britain" https://t.co/774pzhq4Y3

[Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform]

In our new report we compared voting records and expenses for 2016/17 in the House of Lords https://t.co/tYRKJiIZjg

[Stephen Bax @BaxStephen]

One of the authors being my former colleague Fumi Nakatsuhara at @crella_beds so it must be good :-) https://t.co/6iKByi1BKO

[ELT Researchers @ELTResearchers]

Scoring Validity of the Aptis Speaking test: Investigating Fluency across Tasks and Levels of Proficiency: Tavakoli, Nakatsuhara and @anniem_hunter
Interesting and insightful. A must-read!
https://t.co/wtDEKOvLJU

[Catherine West @CatherineWest1]

Proud to be supporting #InternationalStudentsDay - here is my cross-party letter to the Prime Minister, signed by Shadow Home Secretary @HackneyAbbott and 111 MPs, calling on her to take international students out of the Home Office's net migration targets

[The King's Fund @TheKingsFund]

@pestononsunday @Peston @PhilipHammondUK During the election campaign, Theresa May committed to £10 billion extra capital spending for the NHS over the parliament. Are you still committed to that? #AskHammond

[Stephen Bax @BaxStephen]

So what? https://t.co/Ch0Ns6OxgQ

[Stephen Bax @BaxStephen]

Useful stuff on Sketch Engine, the corpus tool. Correct URL link here: https://t.co/paOkNxpHJE https://t.co/7QhW4knLjz

[Prof Pascual Pérez-Paredes 🇪🇺 🇭🇰 @perezparedes]

Learn more about Sketch Engine CQL – Corpus Query Languagehttp://ow.ly/grxa30giEeK

[Higher Education Policy Institute @HEPI_news]

Today we are hosting a major new report from @PeterHorrocks and @OpenUniversity, which explains the collapse in part-time learning and lists ways to tackle the crisis: https://t.co/XbQldALujk

[Stephen Bax @BaxStephen]

One of the reasons I love Japan! Punctuality! "Apology after Japanese train departs 20 seconds early" https://t.co/gcv4OcoWCZ