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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I cannot wait for October to arrive so I can start my doctorate 😱 but first, Japan ! #education #languages

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

So I got into Portsmouth Ed.D program ✨ and accepted the offer ✨ #education #tesol

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I realize that I don’t post here as much as I should … The past few weeks have been busy since a paper got accepted at the World Conference of Foreign Language Education in London this July ✨ #tesol #tefl

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

It broke my heart to withdraw my application to MSU but it was clearly for the best 🫠😳 #education

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

But on the other hand, I have started working on another article, this time on #accentism 🤩 #tesol #tefl

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

My article on language and identity is done but tbh I don’t know where to send it 🤣 it’s not an academic article, it’s pretty mainstream so I am puzzled and open to suggestions #article #sociolinguistics

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

What’s the best way to start #languageweek ? To have a conference about deaf sign language ! #diversity #multilingualism

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I have an interview at the university of Portsmouth to do an Ed.D 🔥 #keepthemotivation

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Literally the whole point of the new certificate I have done with #futurelearn : Understanding Multilingual Children’s language development ✨ #multilingualism

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I won’t pay €280 a language assessment test to prove that my English level is good enough to be a doctorate student in a British university while I have been a British university student for the past 6 years. This is purely and simply discrimination. #tesol

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I hold a MA in Applied linguistics and TESOL from a British university. I attended Yale and Harvardas a postgrad. I have published papers in English about English teaching. I have been asked to provide a proof of my English level from Ed.D program. #whatonearth

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

This is 2025 and we need, more than ever, to remind people that women are human beings. Women’s rights are human’s rights. #internationalwomensday

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Oh, and I enrolled back to Harvard. I was debating for months, if not years, if I were to do a Certificate in School management and Leadership at Harvard Business School, since I got in, actually. Well, today is the day 💁‍♀️ #professionaldevelopment

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Promoting native speakerism is a slap on the face to all the learners of the world. It’s saying “you will never be enough.” I am raging mad that this is something qualified and competent teachers have to fight against #tesol #accentism

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

My daughter (3 y/o) explained to me, very calmly, that she wanted to go to Japan with me next Spring so while I work, she can “admire the flowers”. I think she particularly liked building that Lego set with me 🤣 #japaneseflowers #thingsmykidsays

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I am halfway through my second #futurelearn certificate this month (this time about language and culture), fairly sure I will be done by next week 😱 #cpd

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I said to myself “I don’t need another tattoo” for months. I was convinced. No new projects. Until my favorite tattoo artist released new sketches and I am like TAKE MY MONEYYYYY #tattoo

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Busy weekend since I completed a new certificate with #futurelearn ✨ introduction to Intercultural Studies : Intercultural contact. I really liked it and completed it way faster than I thought 🤣 #cpd #interculturalism

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Just realized that my cat, who is 18 years old and a half, would be 90 years old if she were human .. no wonder she is tired lately 😰 #leeloo

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I am honestly considering signing up for Japanese classes 🫠 why am I like this? #languages #japanese

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Vijay Ramjattan @vijayramjattan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

“Accent reduction” is more of a marketing gimmick than an actual service.

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I have to stop myself from buying a new book on #languagerevitalization this time about #breton 😭 #brittany

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Like, my colleague brought celebratory breakfast because I got into the Ed.D program ? How nice is that ?! #doctorate

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I am honestly extremely lucky to have such supportive colleagues. When I compare with my former school, it really changes everything. #grateful

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

My current position will evolve pretty soon because the workload is just too much for me BUT I am quite dubious about what will happen. I don’t deal well with uncertainty 🤷‍♀️ #work

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I GOT IN ✨ I got into the Ed.D program at the University of Sheffield !! #education #plurilingualism #teachertraining

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I survived my interview ! I don’t know what will happen next, apparently I should have the answer pretty soon. I am not sure at all how it went. I guess we’ll see 🤞 #doctorate

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Today is hard (exhausted after traveling a lot and working on several difficult cases) BUT I am going to work again with my former uni roommate and that’s the bright side of my day ✨

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

What a day ! It was lovely to meet again with my former #tesol France colleagues and to discuss language assessment strategies with #etsglobal and #7speaking at #learningtechnologies in #paris

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Brynn Quick @brynnquick.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

“Language is more than grammar and vocabulary; it’s a bridge through time. Even when fractured and messy, it connects us to those who came before and to those yet to come.” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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My ‘Chinglish’ has a cringe-inducing ocker accent – but I’m determined to pass it on to my child | Monica Tan

As a second-generation parent, my Mandarin is more zombie than living language. But the language we pass down is more than grammar and vocabulary – it’s a bridge through time

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

New (work related) challenge for 2025 ✨ yes I am traveling again, this time to Paris 🚆 #tesol #tefl #englishforspecificpurposes

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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Bilingualism is associated with a bigger brain. Similar to other cognitively demanding skills, it leads to dynamic subcortical structural adaptations which can be nonlinear, in line with expansion-renormalisation models of experience-dependent neuroplasticity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dynamic effects of bilingualism on brain structure map onto general principles of experience-based neuroplasticity - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Dynamic effects of bilingualism on brain structure map onto general principles of experience-based neuroplasticity

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Presented the languages strategy to the #uhfp this morning here at #cannes ! #toeic #ets

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Helen Pattio Combe @helencombe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I saw the « if you went to college 1. what was your career goal when you started? 2. your initial major? 3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? 4. what do you do now, professionally? » and thought, hell, let’s talk about what a ride that was for me.

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