“Language learning and international mobility go hand in hand in fostering essential qualities such as curiosity, empathy and effective communication. (…) It is time to shift our mindset towards valuing language skills and international experiences, ensuring that future generations won’t lose out.”, argues Sascha Stollhans from School of Languages, Cultures and Societies in his new piece The UK is...
Congratulations to Dr Clare Wright for hosting a very successful Northern Second Language Acquisition (SLA) Roundtable at the University of Leeds last week, co-organised by Prof. Monika Schmid from the University of York. The Northern SLA Roundtable brings together researchers from across the north of England to share their work related to second language acquisition, network and create joint...
New open-access Special Issue is out of the International Journal of Chinese Language Teaching, based on the successful Fourth International Symposium on Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISOCTAL-4) conference held in June 2022 at the University of Leeds (https://www.isoctal.com/) with speakers and attendees from around the world, joining in person and online. Articles feature our colleagues...
Would you like to co-lead the L@L PGR Group? Do you have a supervisee who would? The L@L PGR Group brings together PGRs working on language-related topics across the University and provides them with opportunities to discuss their needs and challenges and receive tailored support, e.g., specialised training, writing sessions, practice talks. As a L@L...
Prof Serge Sharoff and Dr Carlo Eugeni have been awarded EU Horizon funding to take part in the project "iDEM: Innovative and Inclusive Democratic Spaces for Deliberation and Participation (2024-2026)". Project aims iDEM aims at addressing the barriers in deliberative and participatory democratic practices through a thorough intersectional analysis of conditions under which the existing...
The more time pre-schoolers spent in childcare during the first year of the pandemic, the more their vocabulary grew, a new study has found.
This is a call for expressions of interest from members of BAAL to join BAAL Language Learning and Teaching Special Interest Group (SIG), re-launched at BAAL Conference 2023 in York. See attached slides. The SIG’s key aims are: To facilitate networking between people who are interested in language teaching and learning To bring together colleagues...
The first Language@Leeds PGR event took place last Thursday 12 October 2023 and it was a huge success! Around 40 PGRs from 7 different Schools met over lunch to connect and discuss interests, challenges and opportunities. The L@L PGR Reps, Kelly and Nathalie, are already planning the next event: a writing retreat. Hope to see...
We're delighted to share with you a call for submissions to a special issue of The Language Scholar in 2024: ‘Developing Contexts of Scholarship’. We welcome submission under all journal categories; Narratives of Scholarship, Works in Progress, Scholarbits, Papers and Reviews. The descriptions of the different TLS submission categories can be found at https://languagescholar.leeds.ac.uk/categories/ We...
Findings from the DART project have demonstrated the potential of computerised dynamic tasks of decoding and vocabulary learning to improve screening for reading difficulties especially in children with English as an Additional Language. https://dart.leeds.ac.uk/findings/
