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New Special Issue based Fourth International Symposium on Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics held at Leeds

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New open-access Special Issue is out of the International Journal of Chinese Language Teaching, based on the successful Fourth International Symposium on Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISOCTAL-4) conference held in June 2022 at the University of Leeds (https://www.isoctal.com/)  with speakers and attendees from around the world, joining in person and online.    Articles feature our colleagues...

Looking for a PGR Rep

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Would you like to co-lead the L@L PGR Group? Do you have a supervisee who would? The L@L PGR Group brings together PGRs working on language-related topics across the University and provides them with opportunities to discuss their needs and challenges and receive tailored support, e.g., specialised training, writing sessions, practice talks. As a L@L...

New project: Making democratic spaces more inclusive and accessible for all.

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Prof Serge Sharoff and Dr Carlo Eugeni have been awarded EU Horizon funding to take part in the project "iDEM: Innovative and Inclusive Democratic Spaces for Deliberation and Participation (2024-2026)". Project aims iDEM aims at addressing the barriers in deliberative and participatory democratic practices through a thorough intersectional analysis of conditions under which the existing...

BAAL Language Learning and Teaching SIG relaunched - call for members and committee elections!

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This is a call for expressions of interest from members of BAAL to join BAAL Language Learning and Teaching Special Interest Group (SIG), re-launched at BAAL Conference 2023 in York. See attached slides. The SIG’s key aims are: To facilitate networking between people who are interested in language teaching and learning To bring together colleagues...

Welcome to new and continuing Language@Leeds PGRs!

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The first Language@Leeds PGR event took place last Thursday 12 October 2023 and it was a huge success! Around 40 PGRs from 7 different Schools met over lunch to connect and discuss interests, challenges and opportunities. The L@L PGR Reps, Kelly and Nathalie, are already planning the next event: a writing retreat. Hope to see...

Call for submissions to the Language Scholar on ‘Developing Contexts of Scholarship’

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We're delighted to share with you a call for submissions to a special issue of The Language Scholar in 2024: ‘Developing Contexts of Scholarship’. We welcome submission under all journal categories; Narratives of Scholarship, Works in Progress, Scholarbits, Papers and Reviews. The descriptions of the different TLS submission categories can be found at https://languagescholar.leeds.ac.uk/categories/ We...

Success: British Council International Heritage Protection and Sustainable Development grant awarded to Janet Watson

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Janet Watson has been awarded a British Council International Heritage Protection and Sustainable Development grant, which will fund a Yemeni ECR scholar to come to Leeds for nine months and work on the rich traditional ecopoetics of the endangered Modern South Arabian language, Mehri, as spoken in al-Mahrah in Yemen. The fellow will be supervised...