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Symposium: Questioning Language Teaching Orthodoxy in Higher Education

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This one-day symposium is an opportunity to discuss and critically reflect on existing beliefs and norms in language pedagogy in higher education and how normativity and biases that underpin language (in) education may be challenged. We are delighted Dr Martin Dewey, Kings College London, will deliver the keynote presentation.   This symposium, held in person at the University...

Symposium – Language education in the (post-)digital era – lessons learnt from the pandemic

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What did we learn during the enforced move to online teaching and learning during the pandemic? What skills did we develop? What worked well and what didn’t work so well? What might the future of digital/hybrid language education look like? This one-day symposium will bring together staff working in HE language departments to reflect on...

Linguistic/Cultural Diversity in Teaching and Learning: Why it matters

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Linguistic/Cultural Diversity in Teaching and Learning: Why it matters This is the first in a series of events discussing the role of linguistic and cultural diversity in teaching and learning. In this event, we are delighted to welcome five speakers from diverse disciplinary areas whose work intersects with this topic:     Standardised English and linguistic diversity in teaching: Challenging myths,...

WORKSHOP: Gender-inclusive language in language teaching: opportunities for the classroom

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What is gender-inclusive and gender-neutral language? Why is it important? How does it work in different languages, particularly in languages with grammatical gender? How might we include gender-inclusive and gender-neutral language in language teaching? In this workshop, we will discuss the above questions and try to find realistic and workable answers together. The workshop will...

Evaluating co-production as a guiding philosophy for EAP teacher training course development

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Diana Mazgutova and Kamola Muradkasimova: Evaluating co-production as a guiding philosophy for EAP teacher training course development  CLER Conversation: Collaborative Relationships in Language Education Research with contributions from Dr Peter Hart and Dr Huahui Zhao This is will be chaired by School of Education postgraduate research Xiaowen Liu.  This paper is based on outcomes of an...

Embracing linguistic diversity

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Linguistic diversity can be the source of implicit bias: often without realising it, we judge others based on how we interpret their accent, their use of regional language traits, their choice of vocabulary.  On Friday 23rd of April (11:00-13:30), CELT and Language@Leeds are hosting an event to shed light on linguistic diversity from multiple points...

EAL CONFERENCE: Enhancing EAL Support: Opportunities and Best Practice

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This conference brings together practitioners and researchers to explore ways of enhancing the support of EAL children.  The main themes are: The Home Language as a source of transferable language competence The use of drama and poetry to enhance language and confidence in EAL pupils Barriers and opportunities to share and enhance best practice  Ample...

WORKSHOP: Language Analysis to enhance Language Teaching

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Language@Leeds, the Centre for Excellence in Language Teaching and the Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence are organising a Pedagogical Linguistics workshop on Language Analysis to inform Language Teaching. The aim is to bring together linguists and language teachers  (i) to demonstrate the pedagogical benefits of language analysis (in the context of language teaching), (ii) to provide guidance for...