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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...
This one-day symposium is an opportunity to discuss and critically reflect on existing beliefs and norms in language pedagogy in higher education and how normativity and biases that underpin language (in) education may be challenged. We are delighted Dr Martin Dewey, Kings College London, will deliver the keynote presentation. This symposium, held in person at the University...
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 and transformative education...
What did we learn during the enforced move to online teaching and learning during the pandemic? What skills did we develop? What worked well and what didn’t work so well? What might the future of digital/hybrid language education look like? This one-day symposium will bring together staff working in HE language departments to reflect on...
Prof. Arlene Archer, University of Cape Town, South Africa A multimodal approach to English for academic purposes in contexts of diversity To attend the talk, please register here MULTIMODALITY TALKS Series is a joint initiative for researchers across the world who are interested in multimodality. It aims to provide a platform for dialogue for advancing multimodal research...