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Ali Fuad Selvi @afselvi

Associate Professor of TESOL & Applied Linguistics | Department of English @UofAlabama | Formerly @METU_ODTU & @UofMaryland | Tweets in English & Turkish

Joined January 2010
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15 yaşındaki evladı Irmak'ın elini bırak(a)mayan Mesut Hançer'i, İSİAS Oteldeki masum çocukları, aileleri ve öğretmenlerini, 11 ilde yitip giden on binlerce canı, yetim, öksüz, eşsiz, işsiz, evsiz-barksız, yurtsuz kalan yüzbinleri...
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...tüm bunlara sebep olanları, sebep olanlar için adalet getirmeyenleri, depreme "asrın felaketi" diyip ondan ders çıkarmayanları, olası Marmara depremine hazırlanmayanları, unutma, unutturma! 6 Şubat 2023 | Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye
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🤖 From glossy .ai domain names to grand promises of “personalized learning,” AI-powered language platforms are everywhere. But what’s really behind the hype? My new paper takes a critical look at 48 platforms that brand themselves as AI-driven.
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Thru CDA and platformization, I show how these platforms commodify education and reshape ELT into the “platformized ELT ecosystem.” It contributes to the growing scholarship on AI discourses, showing how AI in education isn’t just a tool, but also a powerful commercial strategy.
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I’m truly grateful to special issue editors Nathaniel Ming Curran and Christopher Jenks for affording me the space to share this work! 🙏 Read the article: degruyterbrill.com/document/… Listen as a podcast: dropbox.com/scl/fi/ihbjt4dgi…
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Why did #Turkey (or Türkiye) get the works? That’s nobody’s business but President #Erdoğan’s! 🇹🇷 My new article dives into the story behind the country’s recent rebranding — from 🦃 bird jokes to bad puns, from political spin to the fight for a new global image.
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➡️ Read here (open access): ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/artic… ➡️ Listen as a podcast: dropbox.com/scl/fi/9b1poejtn…
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What an absolute honor to deliver one of the plenary speeches at the 6th EMI Symposium/3rd Annual ELINET Conference 2025, held at the beautiful Wolfson College, Oxford.
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To be in the presence of so many brilliant minds and to speak to such a thoughtful and engaged community was both humbling and energizing. I am still reflecting on the depth of thought, dialogue and connection that filled the room and beyond.
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Heartfelt thanks to Heath Rose, Mona Nishizaki, Nicola Galloway, and Jim McKinley for curating such a rich, diverse and critically engaged intellectual space. I am deeply grateful to share this space with such an inspiring community!
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What does it mean when teachers also become brands? How do language ideologies get packaged multimodally and circulated in a 30-second Reel? What are the implications at the nexus of ELT professionals and linguistic hierarchies?
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In this new publication in Applied Linguistics, I connect the dots between influencer culture, self-branding, and language ideologies and raising important questions about the future of language education in the platformized ELT ecosystem.
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Read the Article: doi.org/10.1093/applin/amaf0… Listen to the podcast (by NotebookLM): notebooklm.google.com/notebo…

Teachers as influencers and personal brands on Instagram: double-tapping language ideologies in the...

Abstract. Informed by the platformization and (micro)celebrification of language teachers as social media influencers, this study examines the underexplore

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🎉Big personal news: I have officially received tenure and have been promoted to Associate Professor at @UofAlabama ! Apparently, they liked my research, my teaching, and the way I alphabetized my references enough to keep me around permanently. #RollTide! 🐘
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To @bengucs and Defne, my constant anchors and greatest joys…Thank you for your infinite patience, love, and all the time I selfishly stole for deadlines, drafts, and chaos. Thank you for riding this academic rollercoaster with me. This milestone is as much yours as it is mine.
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Here’s to resisting the pull of the Academic Olympics, and instead, to being kind, curious, and humble scholars: asking big questions, sparking ideas, building community, and yes, launching more caffeinated projects… #Peace!
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Ali Fuad Selvi@afselvi
11 Feb 2025
After 25 years, I will be visiting beautiful Uzbekistan this spring to deliver a plenary at the 15th FLTAL Conference!
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30 Jan 2025
NEW in #TESOLJournal! "Native" or "Non-Native": Who's Worth More? Ali Fuad Selvi revisits Medgyes' "worthiness" question 30 years later. Where do we stand today? A must-read for all ELT professionals! #LinguisticEquity #ELT #LanguageTeaching onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

“Native” or “Non‐Native”: Who's Worth More? Where Do We Stand on Medgyes' “Worthiness” Question...

Different from critical literature reviews offering macro-level perspectives on non-native speakerhood/teacherhood traditionally characterized by such terms as native English-speaking teachers and...

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