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aonghusoha.bsky.social
Clúdach Mágh Ealta Éadair Duthaigh Átha Cliath
May 24, 2025 at 6:06 AM
oliviarujoy.bsky.social
Are you interested in the #assessment and #testing of #language for #AcademicPurposes or the assessment of #writing? If yes, do come to this year's #EALTA annual #conference in Salzburg and join us for the joint pre-conference SIG meeting on the 28th of May! ealta-annual-conference.org CfP attached!
February 26, 2025 at 8:43 AM
dylanburton.bsky.social
Join Karen Dunn and me for a pre-conference workshop at EALTA (in beautiful Salzburg!) where we will discuss linear mixed-models and generalized linear mixed models for the analysis of language testing data. ealta-annual-conference.org/registration/
Registration - EALTA Annual Conference
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March 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
limlom.bsky.social
Spásáil phréachán / spás sóisialta.
Ealta préacháin ar díon i bhfad i gcéin
July 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
cathal.bsky.social
Chonaiceamar inniu iad thíos ar an abhainn i Mionloch ar an turas a luaigh Fintan. Bíonn ealta móra acu amuigh ar an loch. Iontach an glór a bhíonn acu nuair a ardaíonn an ealta ar fad san aer le chéile.
March 9, 2024 at 8:38 PM
seamusofearghaill.bsky.social
"Ealta crothach" nó "ealta crothaigh"? Ceist dáríre.
March 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
aonghusoha.bsky.social
Shíl mé gur ainm a bhí in Éadair! Tá Magh ealta Éadair mar theideal ar leabhar dinnseanchais a fuair mé uair éigin
May 24, 2025 at 5:32 AM
jlschissel.bsky.social
Humanizing assessment: decolonizing, historicizing, and communing with language-minoritized communities

Started at EALTA 2023 & published in Critical Inquiry in Language Studies April 2024

Hoping this work resonates

Preprint available online:

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#academicsky
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November 13, 2024 at 9:12 PM
selahattinyilmaz.bsky.social
Super excited to attend the 21st #EALTA Conference this week in Salzburg, Austria! @ayselsaricaoglu.bsky.social and I will be presenting our study on interactive language use in a large-scale online written interaction task Friday morning. Hope to see (at least) some of you there!
May 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
crella-beds.bsky.social
Heading to EALTA next week? Come check out CRELLA’s presentations! 👇
🎤 Integrated Listening-into-Speaking tasks–Nahal, Fumi, Chihiro & Johnathan
📏 Linking the Japanese proficiency test to the CEFR–Fumi & Japan Foundation colleagues
🤝 Ratability of non-verbal behaviour–our brilliant PhD student Katy!
May 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
darylfeehely.com
#DailyPhoto #PictiúrAnLae
Flock / Ealta
A flock of ringer plover flying over the shore.
April 30, 2026 at 8:03 AM
dylanburton.bsky.social
Also, I will be speaking with Nivja de Jong and @jvbanerjee.bsky.social at the Assessing Speaking SIG about Listening as part of the construct of Speaking. Come join us!

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March 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
faclair.bsky.social
Slighean seimeantach - chaidh ealta agus ealtainn o ‘chòmhlan eun’ gu ‘eòin sa choitcheannas’ gu ‘saoghal nan eun’ fiù ’s gu ruige ‘an t-adhar’, is ciallan eile eadar ‘dròbh sprèidh’ no ‘sgian-bearraidh’.

Eisimpleirean eile: miotagach, meatagach
www.faclair.ac.uk/entries/53

#gaidhlig #semantics
Dealbh dubh is geal air eòin a’ sgèith. Tùs na deilbh: "Flock of Birds" le Picture Perfect Pose tro CC BY 2.0.
February 6, 2026 at 10:39 AM
davidstifter.bsky.social
Tá an ceart agat. Bhí ealta mór na n-éan seo ann (níl an pictiúir thíos ach ag taispeánt píosa beag den gcrann).
November 16, 2024 at 7:03 AM
kingdonncha1.bsky.social
monto 'sliabh' > montaro ‘sliabhra'
birdo 'éan' > birdaro 'ealta'
arbo 'crann' > arbaro 'foraois'
ŝipo 'long' > ŝiparo 'loingeas'
manĝilo 'spúnog/scian/forc' > manĝilaro 'sceanra'
An aithníonn tú an teanga?
@macgiobuin.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
cathal.bsky.social
Dhá ealta éagsúla a bhíonn deas le breathnú orthu, idir cleasaíocht aonair na bhfáinleog agus eagar-eitilt na ndruideanna.
August 29, 2023 at 8:05 PM
apostasynow.bsky.social
I released E'alta in 2021—a lifetime ago.

E'alta is a record of "apocalypses and revelations, of individual and collective loss and grief [...] climate change, plagues, the gnosis of gender, the noise becoming the signal, and capitalism's cascading collapse."

pigeonradio.bandcamp.com/album/ealta
E'alta, by Pigeon Radio
11 track album
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August 22, 2023 at 10:02 AM
slashaug.bsky.social
Save the date: SIG for SIGN webinar on November 4th, 2025, 14.00-16.30h CET: "Assessing integrated skills: from understanding a (pre-recorded) signed text to signed productions".
Registration is already available: eu01web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: EALTA SIG4SIGN Webinar 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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March 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
cuileannach.bsky.social
Tugtar an fiach mara ar an broigheall freisin. Mharaigh Cú Chulainn ealta mhór díobh mar rinne siad gáire air nuair a chaill sé a chuid gruaige agus a chailín
In a story from the place-name lore or dindshenchus about a place called Srub Brain (‘Raven’s Point’), Cúchulainn is depicted as slaying demonic otherworld ravens. According to the tale, Cúchulainn was on the ramparts of Dún Dealgan (Dundalk) when he saw a flock of ‘thrice three fifties’ of the birds on the sea in front of him. Their hoarse calling and cries brought grief to any who heard them, and they were huge in size, with sail-like wings and a loathsome appearance. Cúchulainn pursued them in a frenzy, killing them one by one with his sling until there was only one left. He killed the last one by cutting off its head, and then he bathed his hands in its blood and put the severed head on a rock. This rock Cúchulainn named Srub Brain or ‘Raven’s Point’. The story is curious in that the ravens appear to be seabirds, swimming in the sea with strong feet. The likelihood is that the birds are an exaggerated version of the cormorant or fiach mara – ‘sea raven’ – as it is also known. Ireland's Birds, Niall Mac Coitir p. 450. 54. SRUB BRAIN. Cúchulainn pursued the black bird-flock from Dundalk, and in every country (he crossed) he killed one of the birds, down to the last raven. It was destroyed by him at Redg and at Ramann, and he cut off its head from it and bathed his hands in its blood, and said, when putting the head on the crag: ‘Srub brain and’ “a raven’s stream there”. Thrice fifty was their number. Seven handlengths, now, were in each bird’s bill and seven royal (?) cubits round their necks: thick bodies they had, and thick feet with which they swam the sea. Of whom Srub Brain is said. The Prose Tales in the Rennes Dindshenchas, Whitley Stokes https://www.ucd.ie/tlh/trans/ws.rc.15.002.t.text.html Srúibh Brain ‘headland of (the) raven’ or ‘the headland of Bran’ In Irish literary tradition the hero Cú Chulainn hunted a flock of birds in the vicinity of Srúibh Brain, and placed on an old rock the beak of the last raven killed. Bran was used as a man’s name but was originally a common noun meaning ‘raven’; srúbh means ‘a point of land’ in a figurative usage of its original sense ‘a beak, bill’. Thus the tale explains the placename Srúibh Brain as ‘raven’s bill’. In some versions of the tale, the place is specified as being in West Munster, i.e. Srón Bhroin in Co. Kerry. https://www.logainm.ie/en/111204 pp. 223-227 It was thus that the death of Curaoi came about. The champions of the Craobh Ruadh went [on an expedition] to pillage an island in the ocean near Alba called Manainn, where where was much gold and silver and wealth of various kinds, and many precious valuables besides; and the lord of the island had a comely, marriageable daughter who surpased the women of her time in form and beauty. Her name was Blanaid. And when Curaoi heard that the champions were setting out on that expedition, he put on a disguise by magic, and went with the party; and when they were about to plunder the island in the guise of jugglers they apprehended great difficulty in seizing on the dun which was in the island in which was Blanaid, and all the precious valuables of the island, both on account of its strength and of the great skill in magic of those who were defending it. Then Curaoi, who was disguised as a man with a grey cloak, said that if he got his choice of the valuables in the dun he would capture it for them. Cuchulainn promised him this; and thereupon they attacked the dun with the man in the grey cloak at their head. He stopped the magic wheel that was in motion at the door of the fortress, and enabled all to enter; and they plundered the dun, and took from it Blanaid and all the precious valuables it contained. They thence set out for Ireland and reached Eamhain, and as they were dividing the valuables, the man in the grey cloak asked for the valuable he should choose as was promise to him. ‘Thou shalt have it,’ said Cuchulainn. ‘Well, then,’ said he, ‘Blanaid is my choice of the valuables.’ ‘Thou mayst have thy choice of the other valuables excepting only Blanaid.’ ‘I will not accept any but her,’ said the man of the grey coat. Thereupon Curaoi sought an opportunity of carring off Blanaid, and, seizing her unperceived, he bore her off in an enchanted mask. When Cuchulainn noticed that the lady was missing, he concluded that it was Curaoi who carried her off, and he…
February 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
julesbk.bsky.social
Very excited that EALTA EDI SIG's Annual Online meeting has TWO talks about neurodiversity in language assessment! (Joined EALTA specifically to attend this!)
January 17, 2024 at 2:33 PM
fintanmallory.com
Dubh le Nuala Ní Domhnaill
Dubh Is lá dubh é seo. Tá an spéir dubh. Tá an fharraige dubh. Tá na gairdini dubh. Tá na crainn dubh. Tá na cnoic dubh. Tá na busanna dubh. Tá na carranna a thugann na páisti ar scoil ar maidin dubh. Tá na siopai dubh. Tá a bhfuinneoga dubh. Tá na sráideanna dubh (is ní le daoine é). Tá na nuachtáin a dhiolann an cailin dubh go bhfuil an folt laidir dubh uirthi dubh dubh dubh. Tá an damh dubh. Tá an gadhar dubh. Tá capall úd Uibh Ráthaigh dubh. Tá gach corréan a scinneann amach as an ealta dubh. An chaora dhubh a sheasann amach de ghnáth i lár an tréada, ní heisceacht i níos mó mar tá na caoirigh ar fad dubh. Tá na prátai dubh. Tá na turnapai dubh. Tá gach bileog cabáiste a chuirfeá síos i dtóin corcáin dubh. Tá an sáspan dubh. Tá an ciotal dubh. Tá gach tóin corcáin as seo go Poll Ti Liabáin dubh. Tá na Caitlicigh dubh. Tá na Protastúnaigh dubh. Tá na Seirbigh is na Croataigh dubh. Tá gach uile chine a shiulann ar dhromchla na cruinne an mhaidin dhubh seo samhraidh, dubh. Tá na polaiticeoiri ar sciobaidh is iad ag baint na gcos is na n-eireaball dá chéile ag iarraidh a chur ina lui orainn nach fada go mbeidh gach dubh ina gheal. Is an té a leomhfadh a mhisneach dó nó a chreidfeadh an méid a deireann siad nior mhiste dó b'fhéidir an cheist a chur ab ann ab amhlaidh a chiallaionn sé seo anois nach mbeidh ins gach dubhthréimhse ach seal? Ach ní dhéanfadsa. Mar táimse dubh. Tá mo chroi dubh is m'intinn dubh. Tá m'amhare ar feadh raon mo radhairce dubh. Tá an dubh istigh is amuigh agam dibh. Mar gach píosa guail nó sméar nó airne, gach deamhan nó diabhal nó daradaol, gach cleite fiaigh mhara nó iochtar bhonn broige, gach uaimh nó cabha nó poll tóine, gach duibheagán doimhin a shlogann ár ndóchas, táim dubh dubh dubh. Mar tá Srebrenice, cathair an airgid, 'Argentaria' na Laidine, bán.
July 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM
faclair.bsky.social
The study of a word can show semantic development, e.g ealta and ealtainn meanings have expanded from Bird-flock > birds in general > bird-kingdom > sky — as well as ‘blade (of a sword)’, ‘razor-blade’ or ‘blade-edge’ meanings.

More examples here: miotagach, meatagach
#faclair #gaidhlig #semantics
Black and white photo of a flock of flying birds. Image credit: "Flock of Birds" by Picture Perfect Pose is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
February 6, 2026 at 10:49 AM
dima403.bsky.social
Absolutely brilliant kick-off of 20th #EALTA Conference: Barry O’Sullivan's keynote Days of Future Passed: Language Testing in Europe
Go raibh míle maith agaibh
June 7, 2024 at 9:08 AM
ddlangproject.bsky.social
We have also presented in numerous conferences throughout the world, including #AAAL2023 #AAAL2024 #EALTA2024 #LTRC2024, #AIRiAL2024, and #SCT-SLL on #mediation in #DA, #assessment #fairness #constructss, and #AI

You can find our conference slides on the project page:
www.jyu.fi/en/projects/...
Dmitri presenting at EALTA 2024 DD-LANG project's presentation on Vygotskian praxis and assessment fairness at AAAL 2024 by Ari, Dmitri, and Matt
February 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
fetchfeeds.bsky.social
Estelle and Behram discuss IPL & international cricket, including Pakistan's T20I series in England & USA's historic T20I games. 🌍🏏 #CricketWorld https://fefd.link/ealTA
February 7, 2026 at 6:48 AM