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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Seing our MA Applied Linguistics and MA Language Education students today work with secondary school students on global citizenship 💜💜💜 #education #languagelearning #teachers #multilingualism

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

An opportunity has opened at my research group for a curious and driven candidate to do their PhD on multiling and edu on the Dutch/German borderlands. Dutch and/or Ger are desired, and Eng a must. Upon approval, the position would be excellently funded and supported. Email me with questions

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Blown away by our MA students at today’s Applied Linguistics Graduate Symposium! So much heart, insight, and variety in their research. What a privilege to witness their work and learn from them 💜 #appliedlinguistics #proud #professor

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Conversation with my dad during his visit in the Netherlands: Dad - ¿Qué es esto, hijo? ¿Leche? Me - Sí...leche [reads the label and translates from Dutch and English into Spanish]...evaporada...que le han quitado la mitad de la crema... Dad - Semidesnatada. Me - 😒 Sí. Dad - Pobrecito, mi hijo...

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Children don’t “get confused” by multiple languages. They get confused when adults (not just teachers!) treat the ways they use their languages as problems. Support multilingual kids by honouring all the ways they make meaning #Translanguaging #EducationForAll

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Just finished teaching at the #appliedlinguistics Summer School offered by Lviv Technological National University in #Ukraine. I'm always delighted to connect with Ukrainian scholars.Very thankful to be included in their programme 💛💙 #translanguaging #multilingualism #education

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Matthew R. Deroo @deroomat.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

So much of data analysis is actually data organization

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Still some days left to apply for our PhD program in Multilingualism and Migration. Fully-funded, well-supported and excellently located in Groningen. Excited to read so many wonderful proposals already. I'll consider supporting other strong candidates for competitive funding w/in the school.

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Back to teaching next week."Pathways for Diversity in #Education" is my only undergraduate class, and takes place in the last quarter. It brings together students from three BA programs. Relatively large group w/ service learning component. Hard to plan but a joy to facilitate. #multilingualism

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Tomorrow, Tuesday 8, I'll be giving a (free, open) guest lecture titled "Centering Repertoires, not Target Languages in the Heritage Language Classroom" as part of the Spanish Heritage Language Education Series organised by my very dear Jenny Leeman 💜 out of George Mason University. Join us :)

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Happy to share this article (open access, System), hot off the press, on how teachers articulate critical sociocultural theory into praxis when working with multilingual learners. Co-authored w my colleagues from Indiana University-Indy, Teemant and Sherman 💜 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Teachers as the nexus of theory and practice with multilingual learners: A teacher's journey of becoming

In the U.S., the growing population of multilingual learners of English requires that general education teachers develop specialized knowledge and pra…

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Excited to deliver this keynote tomorrow at the Association of Ukrainian Heritage Language Schools in The Hague 💜

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Im (still) coPI of a $3mill US Dept of Education Grant 2022-2027). We serve underresourced schools in the US Midwest. Our research documents how to get great positive lasting + sustainable outcomes, and explains what to do to support teachers. We do the kind of work fascists dread #multilingualism

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Job alert at the University of Groningen. Come do your PhD with us under my and Dr Hadi Mirvahedi's supervision at the Centre for Language+Cognition. Focus on Multilingualism, Identity and Well-Being in Migratory contexts. Fully funded. Email me your questions :) www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

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Vacatures bij de RUG

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Reviewer 1 of the paper I'm revising today, whoever you are: thank you, I owe you dinner and a drink at the next conference we attend.

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Language is not a system of communication. It's much more. It is how culture is articulated, shared, transmitted. How identities are forged, performed. How knowledge is disseminated, maintained, developed. Ultimately, language is how individuals, communities and societies take shape over time.

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Fully funded (NWO) PhD position opening soon on Multilingualism, Identity and Emotions in Post-migratory Settings. Co-supervised by myself and Hadi Mirvehedi. Come join us at the @unigroningen.bsky.social's Centre for Language and Cognition 💜 email me if you have preliminary questions

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Thus far 2025 has felt like 3 years worth of events packed in three weeks of time.

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Tomorrow, I'll be visiting the University of Amsterdam to give a talk about #translanguaging and emotions in #heritagelanguage #education -- looking forward to connecting with colleagues -- My first time at the @uvahumanities.bsky.social 💜

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Today's university in crisis is Kingston, which is cutting all the departments and subjects below, a savage retrenchment that won't even make them half of the £20m savings they need. Every day will be like this until something is done.

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University of Glasgow English Language & Linguistics @uog-ell.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Job announcement! ELL is hiring a permanent Lecturer in Communications to join a new area of growth in our subject area. Take a look at the job announcement and let us know if you have any questions! www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

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Lecturer in Communications (R&T)

The School of Critical Studies in the College of Arts and Humanities seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Communications (Research & Teaching Track). Job Purpose To undertake research of internationa...

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Happy to see this SI, Synergies in SLA/T, co-guest edited by Dwight Atkinson Marije Michel and Amable Ribeiro just fresh off the press on MLJ. Much of it is open access, including my commentary 'A Translanguager's take on a Synergy-Driven SLA/T' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 💜

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<em>The Modern Language Journal</em> | NFMLTA Journal | Wiley Online Library

Click on the article title to read more.

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Changing institutions as an #academic means adapting to a new system, and relearning/remapping organisational dynamics and your role in them. It's hard work. Now, changing institutions internationally is a whole different beast with #language and #culture entering the chat. Year 2 and still learning

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

If only students knew how OBVIOUS it is when they have use ChatGPT to write their papers...

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Here's cool little video, should you or your BA students be looking for a great MA in Applied Linguistics :) we also offer a track in Multilingualism -- I teach and direct theses in both 💜 come study with us in beautiful Groningen youtu.be/ocPuG5GTt6U?...

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MA Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen

YouTube video by Faculty of Arts - University of Groningen

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Visiting the University of Jena, in Germany, this afternoon, to discuss my work on #translanguaging in heritage language #education and its implications for #multilingualism research 💜 I always look forward to connecting with grad students and hearing their impression on critical perspectives

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Posting so that I don't forget: prioritising my family, my health, and balancing work as part of life helped me turn a terrible 2023/early 2024 into a lovely late 2024. I look forward to this new year in ways I haven't for a while. Wishing everyone fulfillment and health ❤️ #academicsky #academia

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Today, after our last Second Language Acquisition, Teaching & Assessment module lecture, with some of my wonderful MA Applied Linguistics students. They're sharp, talented, hardworking and humble. They also happen to be funny, chatty and friendly. A great (and a little tired) cohort.

Me and my Applied Linguistics MA students today after after our last class of the semester.

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Last week of lecturing -- activated.

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Excited to share this recent publication on translanguaging awareness, teacher education, and arts-based approaches. The chapter is part of a lovely open access book wonderfully co-edited by Paula Kalaja and Silvia Melo-Pfeifer ❤️ www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

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10 Visualizing Translanguaging Awareness in Language Teacher Education: A Case Study

10 Visualizing Translanguaging Awareness in Language Teacher Education: A Case Study was published in Visualising Language Students and Teachers as Multilinguals on page 218.

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Today, we're closing our annual Winter/Summer school at the University of Oldenburg as part of our Internationalising Teacher Education project developed between schools in Germany, the Netherlands and South Africa. Missed the in-person part, but really enjoyed organising it. More next year!

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Spending the day writing recomm letters for former students applying for PhD programmes far and wide. I'm proud of them for willing to contribute their talent to a world that seems less and less comfortable with thinkers able to offer grounded criticism. There is some fulfillment in hope.

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I've created a starter pack with scholars and groups working on different areas related to Multilingualism --- please, share. Happy to add more. go.bsky.app/KSQ5zm

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

My colleagues here in Groningen are organising next year's International Conference on #Multimodality -- se below and submit your abstract!

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

My Sunday looks like papers to review, editorial work to do, and catching up on late work while enjoying some kidney stones activity every so often. In the meantime, Olie's Sunday...

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Leaving X at some point. Hoping to reconnect with friends and colleagues here.

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