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Karen Ashton

@karenashton.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Applied Linguistics: Teacher agency, Language education, policy, curriculum, assessment. Forensic Linguistics. ❤️☕ Applied Linguistics in Aotearoa New Zealand Executive.

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Karen Ashton @karenashton.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Hot off the press! Pleased to share that this article with @qiyuegrace.bsky.social is now available online (and open access!). 'Teacher positioning of their practice for linguistically and culturally diverse learners' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Teacher positioning of their practice for linguistically and culturally diverse learners
This article draws on open-response survey data (n = 86) to qualitatively explore New Zealand language teachers’ positioning of their pedagogical practice for linguistically and culturally diverse ...
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ALANZ: Applied Linguistics in Aotearoa New Zealand @alanzofficial.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Very delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 ALANZ Best PhD Thesis Competition, Dr Dana Taylor, whose thesis is entitled: Professional identity positioning of internationally qualified nurses during workplace interactions with colleagues in New Zealand healthcare settings. youtu.be/zzTXOxtD4F8
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Best PhD Thesis 2024: Dana Taylor
YouTube video by ALANZ Applied Linguistics Association of NZ
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Karen Ashton @karenashton.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Ministry of Education (NZ) TESSOL scholarships now open for 2025 study! www.education.govt.nz/education-pr...
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Teaching English in Schools to Speakers of Other Languages scholarships
The Teaching English in Schools to Speakers of Other Languages (TESSOL) scholarship supports study for employed teachers.
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Karen Ashton @karenashton.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/05/a...
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Anne Salmond: Govt de-funding the mind
Comment: The Government's decision to cut humanities and social science research from its major funding stream is both bad policy and scientifically illiterate, writes Dame Anne Salmond
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Grace Yue Qi @qiyuegrace.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Publication day! Our coauthored paper, Becoming and being language teacher educators: a collaborative reflexive account, is out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Becoming and being language teacher educators: a collaborative reflexive account
In this study we employed reflexivity as a typology and a means to foster our own becoming and being as language teacher educators (LTEs). Specifically, drawing on reflexivity as mutual collaborati...
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Karen Ashton @karenashton.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
Pleased to see this now out online: 'Continuing Professional Development for Teaching English as an Additional Language in New Zealand Primary Schools' link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Karen Ashton @karenashton.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Lots of fun at our Applied Linguistics conference #ALANZ2023 in Auckland over the weekend- our students enjoyed the symposium - for some of them their first time presenting their PhD research 😀
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Karen Ashton @karenashton.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Pleased to see this now out online 'Pre-service teachers’ belief changes in an English for specific purposes teacher education context'. Particular thanks and congrats to Van Anh :) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Pre-service teachers’ belief changes in an English for specific purposes teacher education context
While pre-service teachers’ beliefs about different dimensions of English language teaching have been widely researched, little is known about their b…
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Karen Ashton @karenashton.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
Finally made it over to blue sky - thank you @beckeleven.bsky.social 😺😽
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