Stephen Bax @BaxStephen

Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the Open University. Tweeting in a personal capacity... Joined July 2017

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Kevin Maguire @Kevin_Maguire

8 years ago

Big Qs for Theresa May who as Home Sec shut the Forensic Science Service in 2012 to privatise tests to firms such as Randox now accused of dodgy evidence in criminal cases

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Debbie Cameron @wordspinster

8 years ago

LT: want to give a separate shout-out to this BBC world service programme which was broadcast yesterday--if you teach/study language and gender it's well worth a listen. bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

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We're going to @TLANGProject's conference on Communication in the Multilingual City with our colloquium on mobilising resources across media and urban spaces! @terezaspilioti @anthrostream @FrankMonaghan Register here: shop.bham.ac.uk/conferences-an…

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Pileus Media @thepileus

8 years ago

In 1989 people were saying Water Privatisation was a scam but they were just ignored and mocked by the newspapers. Well 28 years later, we see they were right all along.

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EL Gazette (English Language Gazette) @ELGazette

8 years ago

Do bilingual schools become middle class ghettos? International studies make uncomfortable reading for the Spanish digital.elgazette.com/november-2017/… #bilingual #English #Spain #ELLs #Englishlanguage #ELT #Tefl

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Stephen Bax @BaxStephen

8 years ago

There’s even a maze on the back to “help Jeremy get to Number 10.”

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Stephen Bax @BaxStephen

8 years ago

Hard to resist this "Jerry Christmas" item, though sadly it is "for the few rather than the many" as it has a limited run of 250. Plus it has a capitalist price tag of £19!

The Independent @Independent

8 years ago

Hard to resist this "Jerry Christmas" item, though sadly it is "for the few rather than the many" as it has a limited run of 250. Plus it has a capitalist price tag of £19!

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Stephen Bax @BaxStephen

8 years ago

Great #openaccess publication on English around the world, edited by my former #OpenUniversity colleague Beth Erling, with a contribution by another OU colleague @philipseargeant

Richard Smith - legacy account @RichardSmithELT

8 years ago

Great #openaccess publication on English around the world, edited by my former #OpenUniversity colleague Beth Erling, with a contribution by another OU colleague @philipseargeant

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Stephen Bax @BaxStephen

8 years ago

Good piece about pompous parliamentary language #sociolinguistics

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Stephen Bax @BaxStephen

8 years ago

Readable and thought provoking discussion of being 'half Japanese' in Japan. Argues that "nobody living on the archipelago is 'Japanese Japanese' " #sociolinguistics #languageidentity

Mark Makino 【公式】 @Futurealisreal

8 years ago

Readable and thought provoking discussion of being 'half Japanese' in Japan. Argues that "nobody living on the archipelago is 'Japanese Japanese' " #sociolinguistics #languageidentity

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Stephen Bax @BaxStephen

8 years ago

What is happening in Yemen is a shocking disgrace, and Britain has part of the blame: "Yemen: a catastrophe that shames Britain" theguardian.com/world/commenti…

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Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform

8 years ago

In our new report we compared voting records and expenses for 2016/17 in the House of Lords electoral-reform.org.uk/latest-news-an…

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Stephen Bax @BaxStephen

8 years ago

One of the authors being my former colleague Fumi Nakatsuhara at @crella_beds so it must be good :-)

ELT Researchers @ELTResearchers

8 years ago

One of the authors being my former colleague Fumi Nakatsuhara at @crella_beds so it must be good :-)

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Catherine West @CatherineWest1

8 years ago

Proud to be supporting #InternationalStudentsDay - here is my cross-party letter to the Prime Minister, signed by Shadow Home Secretary @HackneyAbbott and 111 MPs, calling on her to take international students out of the Home Office's net migration targets

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The King's Fund @TheKingsFund

8 years ago

@Pestononsunday @Peston @PhilipHammondUK During the election campaign, Theresa May committed to £10 billion extra capital spending for the NHS over the parliament. Are you still committed to that? #AskHammond

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Stephen Bax @BaxStephen

8 years ago

So what? theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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Stephen Bax @BaxStephen

8 years ago

Useful stuff on Sketch Engine, the corpus tool. Correct URL link here: ow.ly/grxa30giEeK

Prof Pascual Pérez-Paredes 🇪🇺 @perezparedes

8 years ago

Useful stuff on Sketch Engine, the corpus tool. Correct URL link here: ow.ly/grxa30giEeK

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Higher Education Policy Institute @HEPI_news

8 years ago

Today we are hosting a major new report from @PeterHorrocks and @OpenUniversity, which explains the collapse in part-time learning and lists ways to tackle the crisis: hepi.ac.uk/2017/11/16/tim…

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Stephen Bax @BaxStephen

8 years ago

One of the reasons I love Japan! Punctuality! "Apology after Japanese train departs 20 seconds early" bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

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ICTRev Project @IctrevOu

8 years ago

It's great to see that impact from the DOTS and #ICTREV projects (2008-2017) was presented at @OpenUniversity today! :) And the story continues... with workshops in six different countries in 2018 and the @ECMLCELV inventory: ecml.at/ECML-Programme…