Speaker: Dr Xingcheng Ma Moderator: Prof. Binhua Wang Abstract: It has been decades since eye-tracking was first applied to cognitive studies of interpreting. Eye-tracking allows for a nature and unintrusive recording of interpreters’ eye movements, shedding light on their cognitive effort, strategic behaviors, and attention allocation during interpreting process. Traditionally, eye-tracking research in interpreting has...
Speaker: Becky Muradás-Taylor, Professor of Languages and Linguistics Title: "Cold spots in language degree provision in England: findings and action". The talk, hosted by the Leeds Centre for Excellence in Language Teaching (CELT), will take place on Teams, and is open to all. You can find out more about the talk and register on the CELT website.
Celebrated American and Italian soprano, author, and educator, Juliet Petrus, is a trusted Western interpreter of Chinese art song. Her book Singing in Mandarin: A Guide to Chinese Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2020 is the first guide to look at Mandarin for classical singing.
Speaker: Dr Gerald Roche is a senior lecturer in politics at La Trobe University, on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people. Abstract: In this presentation I will introduce the concept of the necropolitics of language, which seeks to examine the connections between linguistic discrimination and physical, bodily death. The empirical impetus for thinking about...
Speaker: Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden Abstract: Universal Dependencies (UD) is a project developing cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages, with the goal of facilitating multilingual parser development, cross-lingual learning, and parsing research from a language typology perspective. Since UD was launched almost ten years ago, it has grown...
Title: Enhancing teaching practices: towards a more inclusive spoken and written language teaching in Merseyside schools and beyond. Speaker: Dr Sofia Lampropoulou – University of Liverpool Abstract: The English language curriculum is heavily oriented towards the teaching of standard and prestigious forms of English language. These include standardised ways of speaking and writing. In the...
Centre of Endangered Languages, Cultures and Ecosystems (CELCE) Research talk To join on Teams, please email Prof Janet Watson. Title: Convivencia across linguistic and disciplinary borders: the case of Al-Andalus and the contemporary Maghreb Speakers: Dr Sarali Gintsburg, University of Navarra & Prof Mike Baynham, University of Leeds Abstract: We start our presentation by reviewing...
Speakers: Wei Zhou, Janet Watson, Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds) Title: Preserving Linguistic Heritage: ChatGPT cannot resist the temptation of speaking 'proper' language Abstract: Modern language technologies, such as GPT, have demonstrated their usefulness in a number of areas, yet they exhibit biases and limitations. This study explores one of the biases concerning the focus...
The event is open to anyone with an interest in German language education and/or cultural and linguistic diversity in language teaching and learning. The event will be held in German and English.
