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Professor Annamaria Pinter, School of Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick Coach House, School of Education, 5-9 Hillary Place - Thursday 27th June 2024, 4:00-6:30pm (Refreshments provided) Full details tbc. To register for this event, please complete this form.
Dr Elina Stylianou, School of Education, University of Leeds Coach House, School of Education - Monday 13th May 2024 1:00-2:30pm (lunch from 12.30) There has been an increasing interest among TESOL teachers in the use of literary text as a resource in language learning (Lazar, 1993; Paran, 2008; Chalikendy, 2015). Existing research highlights that it enhances...
Thursday 25th April 2024, 12:30-2:30pm - 28 University Road LT (G.23) This mini-symposium brings together research interests of the Centre for Language Education Research (School of Education) and Multimodality (Language@Leeds satellite) to explore methodological, analytical and pedagogical opportunities of researching multimodally. The event puts into a conversation two research projects. One is concerned with capturing...
Dr Naoko Kojima, Visiting Scholar, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto Coach House, School of Education, 5-9 Hillary Place - Thursday 18th April 2024, 12:30-2:30pm (Refreshments provided) English-medium instruction (EMI) is a global trend, and a reason for implementing EMI in Japanese universities is to attract more international students and promote diversity on campuses. Thus, EMI programs rarely...
Prof Graham Hall, Professor of Applied Linguistics/TESOL, Northumbria University Newlyn SR (GR.02) - Thursday 21 March 2024, 1-2:30pm (lunch served from 12:30pm). In this talk, I will summarise a project which aimed to uncover the reported practices and attitudes towards published research of English language teachers who reported reading or being interested in research and...
Rasha Mohsen, Postgraduate Researcher, School of Education & Henry Troy, Postgraduate Researcher, School of Education Venue TBC Corpus linguistics has influenced the field of modern linguistics, as well as second language learning and teaching. Over the past decades, the use of corpora resources in language education, commonly referred to as data-driven learning (DDL) has emerged as an...
Professor Norbert Schmitt, Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Nottingham Moot Court Lecture Theatre (1.28), Liberty Building. Refreshments provided. CLER is excited to welcome Professor Norbert Schmitt to present his talk CIIP Models of Vocabulary Knowledge and Acquisition: 'I have been working on vocabulary issues since 1992, and in that time, I have always...
Dr Laura Grassick, Lecturer in TESOL, School of Education, University of Leeds & Dr Judith Hanks, Associate Professor in Language Education, School of Education, University of Leeds. G.18, 5-9 Hillary Place. Coffee and cake provided. In this talk we discuss a project in Viet Nam which encouraged English language high school teachers, in collaboration with...
Please click here to register Although current scholarship has conducted much research on teacher learning and teacher identity respectively, there are limited empirical studies examining the combination of these two constructs. This study, drawing upon cultural-historical activity theory, aims at exploring two tertiary EFL teachers’ specific learning processes and how they develop their identities through...
Please click here to register (informing Louise Williams-Lewis of any dietary or access requirements) Few studies have investigated how the predictive power of IELTS scores for academic outcomes could be affected by subject tutors’ expectations of disciplinary writing and the provision of language and learning support for PGTs. Consequently, few attempts have been made to...