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Talk by Mike Baynham (University of Leeds) and Tong King Lee (University of Hong Kong) Discussants: Li Wei, UCL; Elisabetta Adami, University of Leeds There is a persistent difficulty noted since Whorf onwards in conceiving language dynamically as languaging, when the metalanguage is a language like English with its preference for “thingification”. The approach to...
Juan delGado and Khaled Alesmael, Qisetna will share stories from the Qisetna living archive of Syrian heritage and culture, followed by a screening of one of their films produced in collaboration with Bidayyat Audiovisual Arts. Joined in conversation by Professor Mike Baynham, Centre for Language Education Research Professor Janet Watson, Centre for Endangered Languages, Cultures...
This conference brings together practitioners and researchers to explore ways of enhancing the support of EAL children. The main themes are: The Home Language as a source of transferable language competence The use of drama and poetry to enhance language and confidence in EAL pupils Barriers and opportunities to share and enhance best practice Ample...
Language@Leeds, the Centre for Excellence in Language Teaching and the Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence are organising a Pedagogical Linguistics workshop on Language Analysis to inform Language Teaching. The aim is to bring together linguists and language teachers (i) to demonstrate the pedagogical benefits of language analysis (in the context of language teaching), (ii) to provide guidance for...
This is an interactive symposium of language researchers, educators and users, to celebrate the launch of the CLER Distinguished Scholar in Residence Programme. The keynote lecture by Professor Lourdes Ortega will be followed by a series of creative multimodal reflections and conversations of CLER members and friends, as we reflect on future directions in ethical...
We are delighted to announce that Professor Stuart Davis from Indiana University will be coming once again to give a presentation with his student Abdullah Alfaifi, on "Some Preliminary Observations on a Variety of Faifi Arabic with a Focus on Emphatic Fricatives": In this talk we present some preliminary observations on a variety of Faifi...
Sign languages as ‘super languages’? Evidence from the use of space in British Sign Language
Dr Adam Schembri (University of Birmingham)
All are invited to register (free) to the following Language at Leeds Pedagogical Linguistics Event. This workshop asks what more we can do in SLA research which is of direct benefit to the language classroom, beyond intervention studies. The same question will be addressed from the two different theoretical orientations: Generative SLA and Instructed SLA. ...
In this workshop, we will use the R package ‘tidyverse' to pre-process and tidy sample datasets of different types (binary, categorical, continuous) and explore the data visually. Then we will discuss some basic principles underlying data analysis and learn how and when to apply these techniques, with a focus on linear regressions. The workshop will be taught by Dr Lauren...
The Workshop on Computational Approaches to Morphologically Rich Languages (#CAMRL2018) is organised by the Centre for Kartvelian and Caucasian Studies at the University of Leeds. This one-day workshop aims to bring together established specialists and postgraduate research students working in the field of computational morphology and morphosyntax. The Workshop will feature plenary talks by Dunstan Brown from the...