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CLER Conversation - Understanding tertiary EFL teacher learning & identity development: A cultural-historical activity theory perspective
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...
CLER Conversation: Demystifying the Predictive Power of IELTS Scores - The predictive power of IELTS scores for postgraduate (PGT) academic achievement is an ongoing debate among practitioners and researchers
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...
CLER Conversation: Encountering the Other in Places of Stigma - Extending the Boundaries of Collaborative Language Education Research
"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...
CLER conversation: Translanguaging for Transformative Learning: Teachers' Stance in a Migration Context in Southern Brazil
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...
CLER Conversation: Raciolinguistic profiling and securitisation: Studying and travelling while Muslim
Please click here to register Abstract This presentation analyses four cases, two in education and two in transport, that demonstrate everyday forms of profiling. This profiling is based on an overdetermination of personhood in relation to how Muslims are perceived in relation to security concerns. This also reflects how surveillance has permeated various aspects of ordinary...
CLER Researcher Development Workshop: From (Critical Ethnographic) Data Collection to Data Publication: How to Publish an Article in Twelve (12) Weeks?
This free practical workshop is open to all and particularly suitable to early/mid-career researchers. Please click here to register. Abstract: From an ethnography and critical youth studies perspective, how do we study identities, especially those of young people? This interactive session has two objectives. The first is to answer this question of how to study...
CLER Conversation: The challenge of the primary-secondary school transition: The language of mathematics and science
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...
CLER Conversation: Developing ‘good’ practice in multilingual research - Dr Sara Ganassin
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...
CLER conversation: A new approach to understanding the rise of English as a Medium of Instruction in European higher education
Professor Kristina Hultgren Since the turn of the millennium, most of Europe’s non-English-dominant nation states have seen a remarkable rise in English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI). To date, this rise has been attributed mainly to supranational drivers, such as internationalization, the Bologna Process and increased cross-border competition and collaboration. What has received less...