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...
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...
Guest Co-editors Daoxiong Guan, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Clare Wright, University of Leeds, UK Ying Peng, University of Leeds, UK We invite submissions for original papers for a special issue for International Journal of Chinese Language Teaching (IJCLT) (www.clt-international.org) on the topic of Chinese for Specific Purposes, to appear in early 2022 Aims...
The Language Scholar is an open access and peer-reviewed journal hosted by the Centre for Excellence in Language Teaching within the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds. Its main objective is to provide a platform to promote the scholarship of learning and teaching languages. In the first government-backed assessment of higher education teaching quality...
Helen Sadig (Language Centre) and Cecile De Cat (Linguistics & Phonetics) have been awarded an Excellence and Innovation Fellowship by the Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence for 2018/19 for the project “Building a civic curriculum: Helping local schools better support EAL children through enhanced student impact and teacher CPD”. Helen will design a language training...
On 13 March 2018, teachers, students and researchers from across the L@L network met with many of the 400 visitors who braved the snow and storms to attend Leeds University’s Be Curious day, and find out more about what we do in the largest school of languages in the UK. At the "How and why...
The 50th Anniversary Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics will be hosted by the Centre for Language Education Research, University of Leeds, on 31 August - 2 September 2017. The theme of the conference focuses on the notion of diversity within the field of Applied Linguistics in a diversifying world. Keynote Speakers will be:...