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Huy Phung

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🔎 Research (SLA/TBLT) 💬 Teach (Languages) 🪄 Design (HCD+)

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Huy Phung @huyphung.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Three infographics. One is mine from 2013*. Two were made by AI**. Can you tell which is which? Mine was crafted 12 years ago as a conf poster. AI-generated visuals look cool, but with 'default' taste. Visual literacy isn't a design skill. It's a critical thinking skill.
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Huy Phung @huyphung.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
A fascinating plenary talk on perception-production link by Prof. Chang at the 5th international conference on heritage/community languages at UCLA @cbchang.bsky.social
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Huy Phung @huyphung.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I decided to review and reflect on my 2025, not by drafting and GenAI-polishing a long passage, but crafting an infographic. Designing it allowed me to think and reflect while doing. Design to me is a kind of thinking in doing, thinking in action. Design IS thinking, not just a modifier of thinking.
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Huy Phung @huyphung.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
The 5th edition of Educational Measurement (EM) is now available, and it’s OPEN ACCESS. fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem
Nature Machine Intelligence - LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/12/2025
Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
screenshot of my post
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 09/12/2025
Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...
Will you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course in the future?
No.

Why won’t you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course?
These tools are useful for coding (see this for my personal take on this).

However, they’re only useful if you know what you’re doing first. If you skip the learning-the-process-of-writing-code step and just copy/paste output from ChatGPT, you will not learn. You cannot learn. You cannot improve. You will not understand the code.In that post, it warns that you cannot use it as a beginner:

…to use Databot effectively and safely, you still need the skills of a data scientist: background and domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability.

There is no LLM-based shortcut to those skills. You cannot LLM your way into domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, or coding ability.

The only way to gain domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability is to struggle. To get errors. To google those errors. To look over the documentation. To copy/paste your own code and adapt it for different purposes. To explore messy datasets. To struggle to clean those datasets. To spend an hour looking for a missing comma.

This isn’t a form of programming hazing, like “I had to walk to school uphill both ways in the snow and now you must too.” It’s the actual process of learning and growing and developing and improving. You’ve gotta struggle.This Tumblr post puts it well (it’s about art specifically, but it applies to coding and data analysis too):

Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner’s roadblock to art isn’t even technical skill it’s frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach’s capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That’s how you build on the technical skill. Throw that “won’t even start because I’m afraid it won’t be perfect” shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck. (The original post has disappeared, but here’s a reblog.)

It’s hard, but struggling is the only way to learn anything.You might not enjoy code as much as Williams does (or I do), but there’s still value in maintaining codings skills as you improve and learn more. You don’t want your skills to atrophy.

As I discuss here, when I do use LLMs for coding-related tasks, I purposely throw as much friction into the process as possible:

To avoid falling into over-reliance on LLM-assisted code help, I add as much friction into my workflow as possible. I only use GitHub Copilot and Claude in the browser, not through the chat sidebar in Positron or Visual Studio Code. I treat the code it generates like random answers from StackOverflow or blog posts and generally rewrite it completely. I disable the inline LLM-based auto complete in text editors. For routine tasks like generating {roxygen2} documentation scaffolding for functions, I use the {chores} package, which requires a bunch of pointing and clicking to use.

Even though I use Positron, I purposely do not use either Positron Assistant or Databot. I have them disabled.

So in the end, for pedagogical reasons, I don’t foresee me incorporating LLMs into this class. I’m pedagogically opposed to it. I’m facing all sorts of external pressure to do it, but I’m resisting.

You’ve got to learn first.
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Dan Isbell @danielrisbell.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The head of the Korean agency that develops the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT or 수능), a national college entrance exam, resigned due to the recent English language section being too difficult. www.koreaherald.com/article/1063...
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Suneung agency chief resigns over too-difficult English exam
The chief official in charge of the administration of the country's annual national college entrance exam stepped down Wednesday to take responsibility for the
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Jim McKinley @jimmckinley.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
New, OPEN ACCESS, Cambridge Elements in Language Teaching series... Please download your free copy today! doi.org/10.1017/9781... "Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)" by Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe (University of the Basque Country)
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Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 21/10/2025
The recording is now available so that you can confirm that I indeed have a German accent and color-match my outfits with my Zoom background. youtu.be/YL0co26ng-g?...
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CIIG Seminar: Julia Rohrer | Making Rigorous Causal Inference More Mainstream | 20 Oct 2025
YouTube video by the Causal Inference Interest Group (CIIG)
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Dan Isbell @danielrisbell.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Just throwing AI at education doesn't seem to work. "<thing>, but with AI" is in policy and attracting investments everywhere these days. I hope other countries can learn from Korea's unfortunate experience. restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
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AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea
South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 06/10/2025
Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈 You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...
Causal inference interest group, supported by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies

Seminar series
20th October 2025, 3pm BST (UTC+1)

"Making rigorous causal inference more mainstream"
Julia Rohrer, Leipzig University

Sign up to attend at tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRohrer
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Huy Phung @huyphung.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Reading Circle = Literature x TBLT
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 29/09/2025
Looks like my favorite paper on the age trajectory of happiness is finally out!!! So happy for the authors. Go check it out, it’s great.
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a close up of a man 's face with the words `` it 's done '' written on the bottom .
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words `` it 's done '' written on the bottom .
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Dan Isbell @danielrisbell.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
*please share widely* My department (Second Language Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) is hiring a corpus linguist who conducts research on second languages. Great place to teach (2/2 load) and do research! See link for more details: go.hawaii.edu/mGc
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Assistant Professor (Second Language Corpus Linguistics)
Title: Assistant Professor (Second Language Corpus Linguistics)Hiring Unit: College of Arts, Languages & Letters/Department of Second Language StudiesLocation: University of Hawaii at ManoaDate Posted...
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 19/09/2025
Fun article about “outsider” scientists and their breakthroughs. “Academia filters most funding, publishing, and hiring decisions through senior insiders, which favors ideas within existing paradigms.” worksinprogress.co/issue/why-sc...
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Why science needs outsiders - Works in Progress Magazine
Science has forgotten that the greatest breakthroughs often come from outsiders who are able to take a fresh perspective.
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Charlene Polio @charlenep.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
A reminder that abstracts for the hybrid symposium on the quantitative/qualitative divide in applied linguistics are due August 30. corpus.cal.msu.edu/1052-2/
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Hybrid symposium on the quantitative/qualitative divide in applied linguistics: Call for papers – Second Language Studies Corpus Lab
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W. Joel Schneider @w-joel-schneider.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Now on CRAN, ggdiagram is a #ggplot2 extension that draws diagrams programmatically in #Rstats. Allows for precise control in how objects, labels, and equations are placed in relation to each other. wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/ar...
An arrow with a LaTeX equationTrigonometric functions and a unit circleA bivariate change model with structured residualsA hierarchical model of cognitive abilities
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Dan Isbell @danielrisbell.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I'm enjoying this new article by Christopher Jenks that highlights some positives of English as a global language. One neat thread Jenks discusses is the role of English in the spread of the Korean Wave. I'd add that Korean-American KOR/ENG bilinguals have played a huge role in K-pop's spread
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World Englishes, heterodoxy, and applied linguistics
It is understandable that many people find it challenging to adopt a positive moral position with regard to English and its role in the world. The language is used in many contexts and situations to ...
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Kevin McManus @kmcmanus.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
New paper: Comparing #lab-based and #remote data collection methods in second #language acquisition research. A close #replication study (McManus et al., in Research Methods in Applied #Linguistics) authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYuB9sT3h... #langsky #lingsky #researchmethods #online
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Charlene Polio @charlenep.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Please consider submitting a proposal to our hybrid symposium in October on the quant/qual divide in applied linguistics. corpus.cal.msu.edu/1052-2/
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Huy Phung @huyphung.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
A Text-Driven TBLT Approach to Materials Development go.viettblt.com/hitomi
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Dan Isbell @danielrisbell.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Over the last year, I've been investigating Duolingo English Test preparation and washback with a multilingual team of researchers at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. This guest blog post on DET's Test Center blog shares some of our findings and general advice for test takers.
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The washback effect: How tests shape the way we study English
New research explores what test prep looks like around the world—and how thoughtful test design can support meaningful learning.
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Huy Phung @huyphung.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
This workshop series explores the intersection of theory and practice in Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT), with a special focus on materials development as a space for productive and meaningful knowledge exchange.
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Huy Phung @huyphung.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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Panos Athanasopoulos @panosathanas.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
A computational analysis of lexical elaboration across languages | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"Of course there's an R package to make academic posters in Markdown". *chuckles, shakes head* #rstats github.com/brentthorne/...
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Use RMarkdown to generate PDF Conference Posters via HTML - brentthorne/posterdown
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Prof Andy Field @profandyfield.com · 07/04/2025
Jasp textbook site is now live: discoverjasp.com. @sagepub.com
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DSuJ
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Mery Díez-Ortega, PhD @meryenda.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Starting #tblt2025 conference with Marta Gonzalez-Lloret and our talk on the effects of collaborative gaming in WTC and task engagement - ending the talk with a shout out to #CALICO2025 in San Diego 🌴☀️👩🏻‍💻 calico.org/calico-2025/
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Mery Díez-Ortega, PhD @meryenda.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
We can’t wait to see you at the 2025 CALICO conference this May! 🕊️Register by April 25 to get the early bird rate 🏨 Hotel rooms are filling fast—book ASAP! On-campus dorms are also available. 📅Check out the preliminary agenda & lodging details here: calico.org/calico-2025/. See you in San Diego!
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
See lakens.github.io/statistical_...
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Improving Your Statistical Inferences - 12  Bias detection
This open educational resource contains information to improve statistical inferences, design better experiments, and report scientific research more transparently.
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Huy Phung @huyphung.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Mount Laguna
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LingComm @lingcomm.org · 06/03/2025
How do you use social media to embiggen your work? A #LingComm25 panel discussion with Ingrid Piller @languageonthemove.bsky.social Danny Hieber @linguisticdiscovery.com Jana Viscardi @janaviscardi.bsky.social Daniel Midgley @becauselanguage.com Register now! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-intern...
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The International Conference on Linguistics Communication 2025
The International Conference on Linguistics Communication (LingComm25) brings together lingcommers from a variety of backgrounds.
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UMassLinguistics @umasslinguistics.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Languages matter: global guidance on multilingual education www.unesco.org/en/ar...
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Languages matter: global guidance on multilingual education | UNESCO
This guide presents up-to-date principles for language-in-education policies that recognize multilingualism as both a fundamental human characteristic and an essential educational approach.
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Huy Phung @huyphung.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Amazing teacher meeting in San Diego! So happy to hear it was well received. It’s so rewarding to see educators excited about these concepts!
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Huy Phung @huyphung.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Bridging research-practice gap in action
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 16/02/2025
The Institute of Education Sciences, which identifies what works in education, may be on #DOGE’s chopping block. Its $1B budget is less than 1% of the Dept. of Education's, but it’s vital for efforts to pursue research-based improvements, educational researchers explain. buff.ly/42Yvcae
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Helping teachers learn what works in the classroom − and what doesn’t − will get a lot harder without the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences
The nonpartisan arm of the Education Department supports research and shares data on student progress. It identifies what works and what doesn’t.
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Action Research Resources @action-research.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
A Handbook for Exploratory Action Research - bit.ly/handbook-EAR - for teachers in challenging situations
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 04/02/2025
A new investigation from The Conversation and @retractionwatch.com sheds light on a troubling phenomenon: Fake research papers are contaminating scientific literature at an alarming rate, with hundreds of thousands of bogus studies circulating.
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Huy Phung @huyphung.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
'Apply with Caution' by Hatch (1979) is still relevant to current discourse on research-practice gap in AL,SLA and beyond. Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Juliet Falce-Robinson @jfalce.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Please join us in Los Angeles on April 5. Presentation submission deadline is February 28. Please share with anyone interested in language education. humtech.ucla.edu/event/confer...
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Conference: Creating Communities through Language - HumTech - UCLA
This spring, the Southwest Association for Language Learning and Technology (SWALLT) and Humanities Technology, are hosting an in-person conference on foreign language instruction focusing on creating...
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 21/01/2025
A psychology journal has retracted an article on IQ tests nearly 50 years after publication — and more than 35 years after an investigation found the lead author had fabricated data in several other studies.
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More than three decades after misconduct ruling, researcher’s IQ test paper is retracted
A psychology journal has retracted an article on IQ tests nearly 50 years after publication — and more than 35 years after an investigation found the lead author had fabricated data in several othe…
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Huy Phung @huyphung.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
When TBLT meets OER. The beauty of open materials is that they can be updated, improved, adapted, remixed in a way original creators may not envision. Incremental improvements matter! sites.google.com/view/vietoer...
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 08/01/2025
The course websites for my Spring 2025 causal inference and data visualization classes (both with #rstats) are live! evalsp25.classes.andrewheiss.com datavizsp25.classes.andrewheiss.com
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Program Evaluation for Public Service – Program Evaluation
Combine research design, causal inference, and econometric tools to measure the effects of social programs
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Dan Isbell @danielrisbell.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
#SLRF is back! To be hosted at Northern Arizona University later this year. Call for proposals open: sites.google.com/nau.edu/slrf...
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SLRF 2025 - Call for Proposals
Call for Proposals is open from January 1, 2025, to March 31, 2025.
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Huy Phung @huyphung.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
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Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Very interesting and accessible take on probability worth a read! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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UMassLinguistics @umasslinguistics.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Mothers' language choices have double the impact in bilingual families www.sciencedaily.com...
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Mothers' language choices have double the impact in bilingual families
New research shows that mothers have twice the impact on language exposure, challenging traditional parenting advice. In a new study, researchers found that there wasn't a single strategy that could be singled out as 'best' to raise a child bilingually. But when they looked at parents' language use individually rather than the family's overall strategy, they had an unexpected and striking finding: mothers had up to twice the impact on language exposure compared to fathers. They believe these findings will have real-world impact for policymakers, health-care workers and professionals who closely work with and give advice to bilingual families.
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