Title: Bringing a Multimodal Lens to Medical Education Speaker: Dr. Christen Rachul (University of Manitoba) Discussant: Prof. Martin Engebretsen (University of Agder), Prof. Jeff Bezemer (UCL Institute of Education) Date, time, place: Friday 26 April 2024, 1pm-2:30pm (CEST)/12-1:30pm (BST) online via Zoom To attend the talk please register here: https://forms.office.com/e/myBk2NDzYs Abstract From the classroom to the clinic, communicative practices in medical education shape...
Talk 1: Mapping the sounds, images, voices, languages and cultures of the diver[city]; Dr Yecid Ortega, Queen’s University Belfast Talk 2: Digital Multimodal Composition in English Language Class: Inclusion and Assessment in Pakistani ESL Context; Mr Adeel Khalid, International Islamic University (IIU), Islamabad.
Speaker: Professor Ian Maddieson (University of New Mexico). Title: What accounts for the geographical distribution of tone languages? (with a discursus on the frequency of tones) Abstract: “Languages without tone occur widely distributed throughout the world with the notable exception of sub-Saharan Africa, whereas languages with tone are concentrated in regions relatively close to the equator where...
Speaker: Dr Laura Rupp (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Title: On the hunt for obsolescing grammatical dialect features Abstract: Britain (2008: 1) noted: “In studying language change, variationists are, naturally perhaps, more interested in the new innovative form than in the conservative one”. However, there has been a modest body of research that has studied old or...
