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...
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...
