Linguist at @UniofNewcastle, live-tweeter and lover of the linguistic! If you like me, you'll love @InMFL @NCL_Langling
Joined November 2015
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Michelle Sheehan retweeted
🏆Congratulations to @MiShee54 and the entire project team for winning the 'Inclusive Education, Lifelong Learning & CPD' Award!
This brilliant project is making the case for the place of linguistics in school-based language teaching. #EngageAwards2025
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Michelle Sheehan retweeted
3 Dec 2024
🌟 As you know, our special collection: Languages in UK Education co-edited by @WendyBennett21 & @charlesforsdick is now out! We’re excited to share that new policy papers will be released weekly. Stay tuned for updates! lspjournal.com/
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Michelle Sheehan retweeted
16 Dec 2024
More opportunities to join us in Oxford! We have an open-rank position in Phonetics, to coincide with our move into the amazing Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. The new Phonetics Lab sits above a concert hall - both acoustically shielded! ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2024…
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Michelle Sheehan retweeted
3 Dec 2024
📖 How can linguistics transform the way we teach languages in UK schools? A new paper in our special collection by Anna Havinga et al. explores how linguistics can revitalise the curriculum, boost motivation, & address the UK’s 'languages crisis.' 🧵👇lspjournal.com/post/addressi…
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Michelle Sheehan retweeted
19 Nov 2024
The Express Yourself: North East Festival of Languages is open for registrations for FREE events, activities and resources available January to March 2025 to inspire children and young people in schools, community schools and groups. internationalnewcastle.org.u…
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Michelle Sheehan retweeted
8 Nov 2024
Is this MFL’s ‘moment’ or will reforms hasten its decline? tes.com/magazine/news/genera…
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6 Nov 2024
RT @TractLinguistes: « La société française entretient une forme d’insécurité linguistique peu propice aux apprentissages. La peur de la f…
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2 Nov 2024
RT @TractLinguistes: Vous avez peut-être vu passer une vidéo intitulée "nos étudiants ne savent plus écrire" publiée il y a quelques jours.…
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Michelle Sheehan retweeted
22 Oct 2024
Relaunched groups supporting primary and secondary language teachers in Newcastle (primary) and the North East (secondary). Find out more, sign up and get involved. Termly online meetings (next Primary session 25 Nov 3.45pm): internationalnewcastle.org.u…
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Michelle Sheehan retweeted
22 Oct 2024
🚨The special needs system is on the brink of collapse. The government's spending watchdog will publish its own likely damning investigation this week
But we’ve been chronicling the collapse for years. And I just want to set out how seriously bad things are … (mega 🧵)
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19 Oct 2024
Devastating
18 Oct 2024
BREAKING: Major overhaul at @LeidenHum: African & Latin American Studies to be axed; Chinese, Japanese, Korean merged into Asian Studies; French, German & Italian also merged into European Languages & Cultures. ‘People are definitely panicking about this.’
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Michelle Sheehan retweeted
16 Oct 2024
Ets parlant de català central o nord-occidental? Estem fent un estudi sobre un aspecte de la gramàtica del català i, si tens 10 minuts, et convidem a respondre aquest qüestionari: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
MOLTES GRÀCIES! (S'agraeix RT.)
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Michelle Sheehan retweeted
13 Sep 2024
Secondary languages teachers in Newcastle/NE register for the first meeting of the new secondary Newcastle Network at 6.30pm on 8th October with @HelenMyers (ALL) on the new GCSE curriculum and A Level curriculum: Registration link and information internationalnewcastle.org.u…
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Michelle Sheehan retweeted
10 Sep 2024
Not long now to the Day of Languages! Don't forget the annual Writing competition from @ALL4language open to schools all over the UK! all-languages.org.uk/events/…
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Michelle Sheehan retweeted
30 Aug 2024
This was a really insightful and inspiring event - thank you to everyone! #MFLTwitterati
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Michelle Sheehan retweeted
30 Aug 2024
I'm really looking forward to reading a journal submission from one of our current #LangsLeadScot participants who joined this event remotely 🏴 #CriticalWriting #BuildingCapacity #ResearchInformed #LanguagesMatter #LeadershipMatters
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