Distinguished Speaker 2024: Prof Judy Clegg, University of Sheffield Recording Children’s communication and their life chances In this talk, we will focus on the most vulnerable children to understand how developmental differences in children’s speech, language and communication impact on their life chances. Research focusing on children growing up in social disadvantage, looked after care...
Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that emphasizes empathy, creativity, and collaboration to generate innovative solutions. In this workshop, we will explore the practical application of design thinking principles to language research, scholarship and impact projects through a combination of theoretical frameworks, hands-on exercises, and discussions. The workshop will equip you with valuable skills...
You are warmly invited to the upcoming LIDA and Language@Leeds event, aiming to bring together researchers across the University to foster interdisciplinary conversations and identify areas of potential collaboration. Language@Leeds is a University-wide interdisciplinary network for language research. Our work tackles key societal questions through the rigorous study of language, using diverse methods and approaches, e.g.,...
This workshop will teach you the basics of Bayesian inference using Bayesian linear models fitted with brms in R. The workshop assumes familiarity with R and linear modelling with lme4, but it does not assume previous experience with Bayesian statistics. At the end of the workshop you will be able to fit and interpret basic...
We take 'impact' to refer to any change that academic activity generates in the world beyond academia. Objectives to showcase and share good practice of the impact of language research and scholarship to provide an overview of the support that is available for impact work at the University of Leeds to provide an opportunity to ask...
Are you working on or interested in language or a language-related topic? Would you like to connect with other PGRs in the language research field across the university? Are there any tailored academic and/or social activities for PGRs you would like to get involved in? With the support from faculties and academic staff, the Language@Leeds...
The event is open to anyone with an interest in German language education and/or cultural and linguistic diversity in language teaching and learning. The event will be held in German and English.
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 learning. Data...
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 bridge these dimensions 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...