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...
Language@Leeds Webinar Language@Leeds invites you to join our webinar in November 2025 titled "Maximising the benefit of early years education for children’s language development", delivered by Prof Cat Davies Presentation summary: The Covid-19 pandemic adversely affected early childhood development across multiple domains, including physical, cognitive, socioemotional, and language skills. UK data indicates that a greater...
We are delighted to welcome you to the first Multimodality Talks seminar of the 2025/26 academic year. The details of the talk are below, and we look forward to seeing you there. Title: From Learner to Professional: Transpositioning, Multimodality, and Critical Interactional Competence Presenter: Dr David Wei Dai and Dr Simin Ren, UCL Institute of Education Date and...
