Michelle Sheehan

Linguist at @UniofNewcastle, live-tweeter and lover of the linguistic! If you like me, you'll love @InMFL @NCL_Langling

[Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences @HaSSFacultyNCL]

🏆Congratulations to @MiShee54 and the entire project team for winning the 'Inclusive Education, Lifelong Learning & CPD' Award!

This brilliant project is making the case for the place of linguistics in school-based language teaching. #EngageAwards2025

[LSP Policy Journal @LSPjournal]

🌟 As you know, our special collection: Languages in UK Education co-edited by @WendyBennett21 & @charlesforsdick is now out! We’re excited to share that new policy papers will be released weekly. Stay tuned for updates! https://t.co/2AYQFnvQUM

[Colin Phillips @ColinPhillips2]

More opportunities to join us in Oxford! We have an open-rank position in Phonetics, to coincide with our move into the amazing Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. The new Phonetics Lab sits above a concert hall - both acoustically shielded! https://t.co/iwdZMbbPKF

[LSP Policy Journal @LSPjournal]

📖 How can linguistics transform the way we teach languages in UK schools? A new paper in our special collection by Anna Havinga et al. explores how linguistics can revitalise the curriculum, boost motivation, & address the UK’s 'languages crisis.' 🧵👇https://t.co/Y2Tae2jMXX

[International Newcastle @InterNewcastle]

The Express Yourself: North East Festival of Languages is open for registrations for FREE events, activities and resources available January to March 2025 to inspire children and young people in schools, community schools and groups. https://t.co/6OEkzKSVlj

[Wendy Bennett @WendyBennett21]

Is this MFL’s ‘moment’ or will reforms hasten its decline? https://t.co/4ek2vfGfe5

[Tract Linguistes 🐘🦋 @TractLinguistes]

« La société française entretient une forme d’insécurité linguistique peu propice aux apprentissages. La peur de la faute empêche l’écriture plus qu’elle ne la stimule. »
https://t.co/tjywPeb5m6

[Michelle Sheehan @MiShee54]

So cool, as always!

[Tract Linguistes 🐘🦋 @TractLinguistes]

Vous avez peut-être vu passer une vidéo intitulée "nos étudiants ne savent plus écrire" publiée il y a quelques jours. Ci-dessous, l'extrait d'un article du journal La Croix datant du 15 février 1951. On y retrouve les mêmes idées. Ce n'est pas pire aujourd'hui.

[International Newcastle @InterNewcastle]

Relaunched groups supporting primary and secondary language teachers in Newcastle (primary) and the North East (secondary). Find out more, sign up and get involved. Termly online meetings (next Primary session 25 Nov 3.45pm): https://t.co/mB4jG1mwjU

[John Dickens @JohndickensSW]

🚨The special needs system is on the brink of collapse. The government's spending watchdog will publish its own likely damning investigation this week

But we’ve been chronicling the collapse for years. And I just want to set out how seriously bad things are … (mega 🧵)

[Michelle Sheehan @MiShee54]

Devastating

[Mare @WeekbladMare]

BREAKING: Major overhaul at @LeidenHum: African & Latin American Studies to be axed; Chinese, Japanese, Korean merged into Asian Studies; French, German & Italian also merged into European Languages & Cultures. ‘People are definitely panicking about this.’
https://t.co/fXHHmwBGxs

[Anna Pineda @AnnaPinedaC]

Ets parlant de català central o nord-occidental? Estem fent un estudi sobre un aspecte de la gramàtica del català i, si tens 10 minuts, et convidem a respondre aquest qüestionari: https://t.co/gp1YlFj8xk
MOLTES GRÀCIES! (S'agraeix RT.)

[International Newcastle @InterNewcastle]

Secondary languages teachers in Newcastle/NE register for the first meeting of the new secondary Newcastle Network at 6.30pm on 8th October with @HelenMyers (ALL) on the new GCSE curriculum and A Level curriculum: Registration link and information https://t.co/wpn80jz5ht

[Steven Fawkes @StevenFawkes]

Not long now to the Day of Languages! Don't forget the annual Writing competition from @ALL4language open to schools all over the UK! https://t.co/rZsyMQGAJ1

[Sascha Stollhans @SaschaStollhans]

This was a really insightful and inspiring event - thank you to everyone! #MFLTwitterati

[Lynne SCILT @Lynne_SCILT]

I'm really looking forward to reading a journal submission from one of our current #LangsLeadScot participants who joined this event remotely 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #CriticalWriting #BuildingCapacity #ResearchInformed #LanguagesMatter #LeadershipMatters