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The place of linguistic and cultural diversity in teaching and learning: What do we mean and how might we go about it?

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This workshop is the second in a series of University of Leeds events on the theme of linguistic/cultural diversity in teaching and learning. In this workshop we will: Review findings from two recent surveys among staff and students at Leeds University linked to this topic. Work to develop a definition of what constitutes linguistic/cultural diversity...

Distinguished Speaker 2023: Prof Alison Phipps

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Languaged in Place: People; Pēpēhā and the resources of Peace Professor Alison Phipps As a second decolonial turn is taken in the wake of #BlackLivesMatters, the reappraisal of the histories of the British Empire languages and their propagations are called to account. In this lecture I will consider the myriad ways in which the challenges...

Museums and Communication in the 21st Century

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Prof. Louise Ravelli, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia                                     Museums and Communication in the 21st Century                                     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...

Translation Studies meets Social Semiotics. Recontextualization of images and changing multimodal depictions of agency, gender and diversity in translated picture books and media for children

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Dr. Sara van Meerbergen, Stockholm University, Sweden Translation Studies meets Social Semiotics. Recontextualization of images and changing multimodal depictions of agency, gender and diversity in translated picture books and media for children.                                     To attend the talk, please register here MULTIMODALITY TALKS Series is a joint initiative for researchers across the world who are interested in multimodality....

CLER Conversation: The challenge of the primary-secondary school transition: The language of mathematics and science

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CLER conversation with Prof Alice Deignan and Dr Duygu Candarli "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...

Talk by Fariha Salman on multimodality

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Fariha Salman                                     Title to be confirmed                                     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 across disciplines. Multimodality draws attention to how meaning is made through...

CLER Conversation: Developing ‘good’ practice in multilingual research - Dr Sara Ganassin

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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 of...

Variation in Brazilian Portuguese and its challenges for teaching, by Dr. Paul O’Neill

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Variation in Brazilian Portuguese and its challenges for teaching Dr. Paul O’Neill (University of Sheffield)  Abstract:  One of the most deeply entrenched linguistic ideologies of modern times is that languages have stable and focussed grammars, both in the minds of individuals and the community and that, over time, people’s linguistic behaviour tends to become homogenous (Milroy...

Vanished: Narrating Extinction from the Dodo to Extinction Rebellion

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Dr Sadiah Qureshi, University of Birmingham Please register at this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/onlinevanished-narrating-extinction-from-the-dodo-to-extinction-rebellion-tickets-545090870467 to receive the Zoom details. Abstract: We are so familiar with extinction that it is hard to imagine a world where nothing was believed to be extinct. Yet, the science of extinction is modern. Up until the eighteenth century, well-known losses, such as the...

Raciolinguistic ideologies and narratives of deficit: how the ‘word gap’ came to be normalised in England’s schools

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Dr Ian Cushing (Faculty of Education, Edge Hill University) Discussants: Prof. Cecile De Cat (Linguistics), Prof. Alice Deignan and Dr Paula Clarke (Education) Abstract: Educational linguists across England and the USA have long critiqued deficit-based language ideologies, yet since the early 2010s, these have seen a marked resurgence in England’s education policy in narratives and interventions related...