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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...
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...
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...
Findings from the DART project have demonstrated the potential of computerised dynamic tasks of decoding and vocabulary learning to improve screening for reading difficulties especially in children with English as an Additional Language. https://dart.leeds.ac.uk/findings/
The recording of this invited talk by Dr Charlotte Taylor (University of Sussex) is available through this link.
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...
MULTIMODALITY TALKS Series is a joint initiative for researchers across the world who are interested in multimodality. It aims to provide a platform for dialogue for advancing multimodal research across disciplines. Multimodality draws attention to how meaning is made through the combined use of semiotic resources such as gesture, speech, face expression, body movement and proxemics,...
To what extent does children’s spoken dialect influence their writing? Does correcting pupils’ speech improve their writing? What consequences might overt correction have for pupil participation and learning? Research by Julia Snell (School of English) and her colleague Ian Cushing (Edgehill University) set out to addresses these questions through investigation of primary school children’s writing,...
The presentations from the Language@Leeds triennial showcase can now be accessed from the programme page.
On 31st March 2022, TES reported on research by Julia Snell (School of English) and her colleague Ian Cushing (Edgehill University) which exposes the role of the school’s inspectorate, Ofsted, as institutional language police. Julia and Ian systematically searched inspection reports of primary and secondary schools and found a huge number of reports where the inspectorate criticise teachers...