dr tom avery

doctor of education
#language #ideology #migration #inclusion #place #community @swanseauni @UniofBath

[dr tom avery @Toms_elt]

"we do not 'have' or 'possess' language, [...] we learn to use it and to 'live in it'" (van Lier, 2000, p253) #ecology #keltchat #efl

[Rebecca Madgin @imadgination03]

New! The second @ahrcpress Place Programme report is now online.

Outlines how we can deliver, evidence, catalyse, and imagine people-centred, place-based approaches in ways that can secure positive social-economic outcomes for people, place and economy. ⬇️

https://t.co/Gf0gboX3se

[Rob Drummond @RobDrummond]

I thought I’d check out some of the 350+ comments kindly left by @thetimes readers on this article featuring my thoughts on ‘like’ and standard English. They didn’t disappoint, and yet somehow at the same time they disappointed immensely 🧵 1/16
https://t.co/2v1Clc3HMJ

[Dr Fadoua Govaerts @FGov309]

My university is joining the movement
For all my colleagues and alumni of @UniofBath fill in the form
Divest from Israel!

https://t.co/SYMWKPhedY

[Ian Cushing @ian_cushing]

when so many children living in poverty are literally malnourished, it strikes me as particularly problematic to describe them as 'word poor', as 'hungry for words', as having 'stunted vocabularies', as requiring a 'rich diet of words', or as 'linguistically impoverished'.

[Aaron Winter @aaronzwinter]

British people = decent hardworking people

Everyone else = not decent, hardworking, rule followers, people or housed

Where the mainstreaming of racism and the far right, undermining the welfare state, exacerbating inequality, and making immigrants scapegoats for it meet.

[dr tom avery @Toms_elt]

@OrtegaYecid @baalsjsig misread this at Pulverizing Applied Linguistics! That's be a slightly different type of workshop 😂

[Karen Forbes @karen_forbes]

Very excited to see our article is out in @BERJ_Editors (open access). In it we analysed publicly available webpages and policy documents relating to language(s) across almost 1000 secondary schools in England. Key findings⬇️@Nic_Morea @CamEdFac

https://t.co/Z7Ay1Japu9

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

If you missed this over the weekend, this might be one of the most important interviews I ever gave.

We need to check this spiral to the extreme right in how we discuss migration. There will always be migration.

If we respond with humanity or not is our only choice. #r4today

[Carol Taylor @Taylor_C_A]

Looking forward to hosting the fantastic @KalwantBhopal at the University of Bath. Hybrid event in person and online. Please join us! @EdAntiRacism @FEducationbath @EducationBATH @kehinde_andrews @DavidOlusoga Please repost!

[Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon]

The process of normalisation of reactionary politics often works this way:

- place someone in position of power willing to make extreme statements, helping their brand
- sack them once they've crossed many lines
- replace them with a more human face without reversing the trend

[Yumna @yumna_patel]

They’re not even pretending it’s about Hamas anymore. Is and always was about expulsion & colonization.

[dr tom avery @Toms_elt]

"Nothing can justify what is happening" in Gaza.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Another great Israeli hero: the astonishing Amira Hass of @haaretzcom breaking down on television as she calls for "an end to this terrible slaughter... how can they stand on the side and do nothing... Nothing can justify what is happening" in Gaza.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Today an unelected head of state will read out policies from an unelected prime minister which will deprive the British people of their liberties.

These two un-elected multi-millionaires will take the people's right to strike and their right to protest.

We must fight this.

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

Surgeon in Gaza.

Read that again:

FIVE HUNDRED people held in a concentration camp massacred in a single night of bombings by one of the most powerful armies in the world and with the support of every major ‘democratic’ country in the world

[Li Wei 李嵬 @professorliwei1]

A raciolinguistic perspective from the United Kingdom - Cushing - Journal of Sociolinguistics - Wiley Online Library https://t.co/DH9tk8IXYG Important critique of UK sociolinguistics!

[dr tom avery @Toms_elt]

@AshleyRMoore3 If nothing else, it can create a track record of how your work in one area has developed. It's a way of developing your ideas across publications and helping people follow your logic across time. I find it helpful when people cite themselves!

[Rebecca Madgin @imadgination03]

2 weeks to @ahrcpress Place event in Glasgow/online. Join us to discuss how to advance people-centred, place-led work. Looking forward to hearing fantastic speakers from universities, creative practice, local authorities & national organisations. Limited tickets & agenda ⬇️(1/7)

[suresh canagarajah @sureshcanax]

Resisting the #coloniality of #AcademicWriting for #MultilingualStudents and #TransnationalScholars
https://t.co/eB6PeiAVwv

[Rob Drummond @RobDrummond]

'A language attitude is, after all, not really an attitude to a language feature; it is an awakening of a set of beliefs about individuals or sorts of individuals through the filter of a linguistic performance'. Niedzielski & Preston (2000)

It's always about more than language.