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You are cordially invited to this talk (either in person or via Teams), which will be delivered by our guest speaker from CNRS-IKER (Bayonne, France): Kattalin Bidart. More than half of the world’s population is bilingual, and this proportion continues to grow. Bilingualism is particularly widespread in the Basque Country, which spans parts of France...
Abstract This talk examines how multimodal and affective resources shape health communication in medical education in Brazil, focusing on what happens when communication outpaces patients' health literacy. Data from the first multicenter, population-based survey of functional health literacy in Brazil (Dal Pizzol et al., 2025), based on 1,181 adults interviewed face to face across five...
You are warmly invited to a talk by Manar Hazzaa, award-winning Arabic children's author and postgraduate researcher in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies: Bridging Stories: Writing Arabic Picture Books with Diglossia and Shared Reading in Mind Drawing on both her experience as an author and her doctoral research, Manar will explore the challenges...
Language@Leeds Webinar Presentation summary: Children from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds often start school with lower language skills than their more advantaged peers. This has significant impacts on their later learning and life outcomes. Evidence suggests that high quality early years provision can mitigate those impacts. The national expansion of childcare entitlements has the potential to increase...
This event will be hybrid. If you cannot attend in person, please register here to receive a Teams link to attend online. Abstract Emerging from my larger Articulating Rubbish project, this presentation considers the mediatized ways in which waste is made meaningful and governable. Specifically, I examine children’s toys as key sites of public pedagogy...
An exploration of the language attitudes of lecturers at a widening participation institution in the West Midlands Dr Judith Hamilton, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and TESOL (University of Wolverhampton) This talk is organised by the Embracing Linguistic Diversity satellite of Language@Leeds Please register here. Abstract Research on language attitudes in Higher Education (HE) has predominantly...