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...
What is the possibility of encountering our neighbours in places that are historically, spatially, and morally configured to avoid them? And what, if anything, can language education research do to inhabit such a possibility? In this CLER Conversation, we share our experience and outcomes of collaborative working to explore this question. The project was supported...
Translanguaging for Transformative Learning: Teachers’ Stance in a Migration Context in Southern Brazil - Anamaria Welp, PhD, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Please click here to register for this CLER Conversation. Abstract: Translanguaging theory offers a fresh perspective on language education by prioritizing students and their language repertoires, aiming for social justice...
Bojana Petrić from Birkbeck, University of London presents CLER Conversation: Development of source use and citing in MA student writing: A longitudinal approach on 9th June at 4pm to 5.30pm in the Hillary Place Coach House Seminar Room. Please click here to register for this event Abstract: Students’ difficulties mastering source use and citation when...
Please click here to register Abstract This presentation analyses four cases, two in education and two in transport, that demonstrate everyday forms of profiling. This profiling is based on an overdetermination of personhood in relation to how Muslims are perceived in relation to security concerns. This also reflects how surveillance has permeated various aspects...
This event is open to all colleagues, as well as postgraduate students, who are interested in using ethnography as a methodology for their research. Please click here to register. From an ethnography and critical youth studies perspective, how do we study identities, especially those of young people? This interactive session has two objectives. The first is...
The transition from primary school to secondary school is known to be problematic for some students for a number of reasons: social, academic, and linguistic. We researched the third of these issues, the linguistic challenge, using data gathered in the north of England. We worked with five secondary schools and eight primary schools to build...
Registration is required - please click here to register for this event. Please email Louise Williams-Lewis at CLER.leeds.ac.uk to provide any dietary and access requirements. Developing ‘good’ practice in multilingual research ‘Researching multilingually’ refers to how researchers draw on their own, and others’ linguistic resources in the researching, reporting, and representation of all aspects...
Please click here to book your place at this forthcoming event via Eventbrite. Silence and Silencing in the classroom: Rwandan girls’ epistemic exclusion in English Medium basic education Abstract In the research literature on the use of an unfamiliar language of learning and teaching (LoLT), such as English, in basic education, there is persistent evidence...
