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Dr Zhiwen Song

@zwsong.bsky.social
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Linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, critical applied linguistics, sociology of language and education 怀疑怀疑的怀疑 批判批判的批判

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Yu Kanazawa @knzw783.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🌍🗣️⚖️ Song, Z. (2026). Politics of representation, legitimacy, and multilingual subjects: Review of translanguaging in internationalized higher education. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1080/0143...
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Not sure about the global number, but agree that US university is being destroyed
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I have spent years encouraging students to get beyond their fears about Philadelphia and become part of the communities around them. That has gotten much harder. My latest post examines why the power of universities to build community matters more than ever. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Universities Can Bring Us Together. That May Be Why They’re Under Attack
What the growing climate of fear facing Chinese international students reveals about the role of education in building relationships beyond campus
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Full article: Politics of representation, legitimacy, and multilingual subjects: review of translanguaging in internationalized higher education www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Politics of representation, legitimacy, and multilingual subjects: review of translanguaging in internationalized higher education
This review examines 68 empirical studies on translanguaging within internationalised higher education to explore how translanguaging is conceptualised, represented, and recontextualized across edu...
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“were reluctant to spend time on other academic activities, including teaching …considerable work time devoted to writing, which resulted in fatigue and negatively affected family relations… they had to rush to publish …less likely to produce papers of better quality or those with novel discoveries”
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Comments from Former and Current Harvard Writing Tutors
Comments from Former and Current Harvard Writing Tutors I am flabbergasted by the decision to close the Writing Center, which for more than twenty years has been an immeasurably valuable resource for...
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Netizens tell what doing research and being an academic would be like if she returned… I find this reassuring 🫢
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
If you teach or research in rhetoric, writing, composition, or applied language studies this is a good petition to sign. www.change.org/p/halt-disso...
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Halt Dissolution of CCCC and Call for Transparency from NCTE #SaveCCCC
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈 全网都在热议中国的各种制度
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
An (extremely) exam-focused environment like China's Gaokao often **stifles** intellectual growth by prioritizing strict rules over curiosity, imagination, and creativity - qualities crucial for generating new knowledge. Scores are like fast food. Good play needs time and change of mindset.
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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China's animal lovers take fight against abuse offline and overseas
The killing of a dog and her puppies in Guangdong has sparked outrage inside and outside the country.
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Rule Limiting International Students’ Time in U.S. Finalized
International students previously could stay as long as their program lasted. The Trump administration is ending that 1978 policy.
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Sweltering heat
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Always curious about those cuties’ POVs
Cute cat hiding in the bottom of the car and looking 👀 Two dogs looking through the glass door
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I'm very happy to share that my new article is now online! ------- Full article: Translanguaging, visibility, and translingual (dis)investment in English-Dominant higher education www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Translanguaging, visibility, and translingual (dis)investment in English-Dominant higher education
English-dominant universities are structured by monolingual ideologies that obscure how multilingual students actually learn, participate, and sustain academic work. This qualitative study examines...
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
What happens when education becomes organized primarily around test scores and measurable outcomes? I wrote a piece reflecting on the narrowing of educational imagination and what earlier experiments in liberatory schooling might still teach us. open.substack.com/pub/educatio...
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Narrowing of Educational Imagination
Remembering when schools aspired to liberation rather than measurable performance
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Gold rush town is my favorite song of his 2026 album. While I may be biased, Jay Chou’s Mandopop is the best! ❤️‍🔥 youtu.be/UaOP4eoxY3M
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Taiwanese mega star puts Aussie gold rush town back on the map | A Current Affair
YouTube video by A Current Affair
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Ess Creek 🌻🌻🌈🏳️‍🌈💙 @esscreek.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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The Asian Feminist @theasianfeminist.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Taipei promotes gender equality in funeral ceremonies Kuo Hsien-hung, head of the Taipei Funeral Service Industry Association, described the publication of new guidelines as a step toward a more gender-equal funeral culture in Taiwan.
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Taipei promotes gender equality in funeral ceremonies - Focus Taiwan
The Taipei City government is extending its push for gender equality into the often-overlooked area of funeral arrangements, following the publication in February of guidelines promoting gender-equal ...
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k☭wagata @kuwagata.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Whenever I read about the hostile armrests and the disappearance of the public bench I think of the opposite of that I encountered in Japan in Shikoku on the pilgrimage; where there is not only benches, but shelters, sometimes even with simple bedding or supplies left inside for pilgrims
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「四国八十八ヶ所ヘンロ小屋プロジェクト」を支援する会トップページ 2019.03.28
「四国八十八ヶ所ヘンロ小屋プロジェクト」を支援する会
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This couldn't have come at a better time! I was just about to splurge on a stadium bag at xxx, preparing myself for a month of sacrifice by eating dirt (吃土, just kidding), when I stumbled upon this deal at an unbeatable price at Target. Thrilled that I found it 😁
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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 20/04/2026
A new book on sociolinguistics comes out tomorrow! This is really nice to see, because there aren’t many books on this topic for a general audience.
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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 17/04/2026
🦭 Everybody has an accent. 📸 Marti Phillips #accent #linguistics #language
Two seals that look like they’re laughing hysterically, with the text, “And then he said he doesn’t have an accent!”
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
And anybody who thinks that any academic field lacks “viewpoint diversity” has clearly never attended any academic conference where scholars are constantly disagreeing with one another on a range of different debates in our respective fields
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Dissertation defense: passed without correction. And highlights: - A conference room that didn’t exist (Harry Potter style) - Grammarly appearing at the exact moment I discussed language regulation - A committee that turned the defense into a real intellectual conversation
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Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I'll be back @unileiden.bsky.social tomorrow to talk about Chinese feminists and the language reform committee of the 1924 Congress for the Advancement of Education in Nanjing, if anyone is around! (so much to unpack re: gender & language!) www.student.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
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National language and feminist activism in Republican China: the 1924 Congress for the Advancement of Education - Leiden University
How can we re-envision the construction of a national language from below, taking into account the diversity of voices involved in these reforms? Starting from the visit of a delegation of feminist te...
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I hope liberal and left-wing Americans defeat Trump and all he stands for, but if they want to put America's relationship with the world on a more sustainably realistic basis they need to stop viewing every geopolitical crisis or conflict as a mere externalisation of domestic American culture wars
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
What might raciolinguistics look like if we decenter Western-centric understandings of race? What can international Asian English teachers’ experiences show us about agency and raciolinguistic beliefs across contexts? I’m very pleased to share my publication: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Decentering the Western-Centric Racial Conceptualization: International Asian English Teachers’ Agency and Raciolinguistic Beliefs
Recent scholarship has elevated the issue of race, transcending the native/non-native speaker dichotomy to challenge the deficit perspective regarding language-minoritized students. Anti-racist pedagogy is not just for our students but also for teachers who should be...
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Zongzi (sticky rice dumplings) made from scratch My dad shared the photo ☺️ #端午节 #dragonboatfestival #food #Culture
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Society for Linguistic Anthropology @soclinganth.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Reminder: The Society for Linguistic Anthropology Conference "Imagination, Creation, Critique" is next week! Join us! Learn more and register here: www.2025slaconference.org
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Day 3 “Accented Knowledge” “representation in citation” “Global South”
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Day 2 at the workshop
Day 2
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Such a wonderful event!
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
My apparently unpopular opinion is that when we focus on the supposed grammar mistakes of those we disagree with we reinforce longstanding prescriptivist ideologies that are most heavily used to police poor people of color. It may seem cute but is actually oppressive. apple.news/A6sySH6IGTYe...
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US Education Secretary Dragged For Embarrassing Grammatical Errors In Letter To Harvard — Black Enterprise
As the letter went on and was made public on social media, critics jumped at the opportunity to denounce McMahon's comments.
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Who (race/ethnicity, class, knowledge etc) are “standard”? Oh, ELL are not “standard”. Why? How? “To give you a sense of the context, we started with over 420 applicants and invited the top 7 standard and 2 ELL to campus.” —— rejection email to finalists. #raciolinguistics #languageideology
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
During the interview: "What do your students think about you as a nonnative speaker teacher?" "But you are not teaching English." "International students are quiet." "... hot dishes, not cold dishes" ... Value statement: We view multilingual students' language as an asset.
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Day2 at aaal25. I went to an interesting, insightful, and eye-opening special session about translanguaging. I have a lot to think about.🤔
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Day 1 at aaal25
Conference
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ACLU @aclu.org · 15/03/2025
As co-founder of our Women's Rights Project and a Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's legal work left our country forever changed. Today, on what would've been her 92nd birthday, we the people honor her legacy by voicing our dissent.
Image of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a former Supreme Court Justice and founder of the ACLU Women's Rights Project, with a quote attributed to her reading "We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, We, the people."
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Li Wei 李嵬 @professorliwei.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Technofascism: when AI tools can fabricate stories about people with views opposed to the official party position that cannot be fact checked since there is nobody to ask for the evidence they have to support such claims. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...
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Yale Scholar Banned After A.I. News Site Accuses Her of Terrorist Link
The deputy director of a liberal project at Yale Law School was put on leave over allegations that she is linked to Samidoun, a group the U.S. government has said funds terrorists.
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I like the Cantonese equivalent! The Mandarin equivalent is 样样通,样样松, consisting of only three characters. It functions more as a proverb and is thus used in a colloquial and informal manner. (1/2)
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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A bag from Salted Books in Lisbon. www.famouscampaigns.com/2025/01/this...
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David Hulloween 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Lovely interview with Sabina Knight The Power of Chinese Narrative – interview with Sabina Knight
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163. The Power of Chinese Narrative – interview with Sabina Knight
When reading and translating, I've often wondered about Chinese narrative. I knew from reading with my own children how important storytelling is for credibility and engagement, even at a very young a...
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Julie Cruse @academicabuse.com · 03/02/2025
We need a "rate my boss in higher ed" version of "rate my professor." So I built one! Kickstart the project with your story: buff.ly/4aMRayz 🪜 🎓 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾‍🔬 👩🏼‍🔬 👩🏾‍🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd
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Academic Abuse | Data and Resources to Disrupt College Harassment, Bullying, and Misconduct
At Academic Abuse, learn to identify, prevent, and conquer academic injustice, including: power imbalances, discrimination, plagiarism, harassment, bullying, retaliation, sexual misconduct, and more.
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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Not to put too fine a point on it, but a week ago, the CSU closed 6 departments (among them, philosophy, women's and gender studies, and economics) and fired 46 tenure-line faculty at Sonoma State. One of those faculty studies AI ethics. They fired the AI ethics professor. Then, this.
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Emma Cayley 谷曦 @emmacayley.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Please help support our colleagues in languages at Cardiff by challenging the decision to exclude them from the category of ‘global humanities’ @ucflangs.bsky.social @artsandhums.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...
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Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities
The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level, say Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Charles Burdett and Emma Cayley
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I remember this article from 2020. "Nearly a third of the 3,000 adjuncts surveyed for the report earn less than $25,000 a year. That puts them below the federal poverty guideline for a family of four. Another third of respondents make less than $50,000." www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/04...
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New report says many adjuncts make less than $3,500 per course and $25,000 per year
New report on adjuncts says many make less than $3,500 per course and live in poverty.
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Dr Zhiwen Song @zwsong.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Accepted!!
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ALT: a cartoon girl with a tiara on her head is surrounded by minions and says " so excited "
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