Author Archives: roycross

1. Now that Lucy Letby has been found guilty of another murder, the UK press are free to report the doubts over her conviction first raised by The New Yorker which were censored by the UK government when first published … Continue reading →

Blog version: https://roycross.blog/ 1. The first of two heterodox pieces of research, free-to-read from Language and Intercultural Communication, Working with/beyond ‘language’: insights from a listening walk with young men from asylum-seeking backgrounds in a rural treescape by Khawla Badwan, Caitlin … Continue reading →

1. We need to give small companies the chance to be heard from time to time, so here’s a) Generative AI Misuse: A Taxonomy of Tactics and Insights from Real-World Data from Google DeepMind https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.13843 b) Khan Academy Founder Sal … Continue reading →

1. Transcendence to start with today, transcendence in the AI context, where it means that the machines are taking over. Transcendence: Generative Models Can Outperform The Experts That Train Them https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.11741 PDF below. Abstract: Generative models are trained with the … Continue reading →

1. From the National Centre for Writing (NCW), Meet the ILX 10: Rising Stars of UK Writing https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/writing-hub/ilx10/ “This selection is intended to represent to our international community just how pluralistic, diverse, and globally engaged the UK literature scene is.” … Continue reading →

1. ELLRA https://ellra.org/ is the Early Language Learning Research Association and it’s holding its ‘1st Anniversary Web Festival’ at 12:30 UK time each day next week, starting Monday 1st July. Programme and registration here https://ellra.org/event/ellra-first-anniversary-web-festival 2. Here’s the first of … Continue reading →

1. Short notice, this one: from Aqueduto at 14:00 UK time tomorrow, Wednesday 26th June, Elevate Your Online Language Teaching Training with AQUEDUTO’s Quality Framework, will be of value to everyone involved in the delivery of online language teacher education … Continue reading →

Blog version: https://roycross.blog/ A day early again today, as I’m off back to school tomorrow to meet some people for the first time since 1973 … !. Macmillan’s Advancing Learning Fast-forward 2024 is repeated at 10:00, 14:00 and 22:30 UK … Continue reading →

Earlier than usual this week, to give you chance to catch the first item below at 09:00 UK time tomorrow, Tuesday morning … 1. Scroll down (a fair way) to June in the ‘Live Webinars’ section of the LanguageCert webinars … Continue reading →

1. Thanks to Artur Taevere for this one: I mentioned to him that I wasn’t quite sure what instructional coaching was last week, and he suggested this introduction, A Beginner’s Guide to Instructional Coaching by Peps Mccrea https://steplab.co/resources/papers/BP6w3bcs/A-Beginners-Guide-to-Instructional-Coaching PDF below. … Continue reading →