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CGE Research Seminar today: Launching the Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca

The next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar will take place today, Wednesday 11th October 2017 from 5:00pm in Lecture Theatre C, Building 65, Avenue Campus. The seminar celebrates the launch of the Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca by Will Baker, Martin Dewey and Jennifer Jenkins. All welcome! Here is the abstract for this seminar: Last month, Routledge published the first ever Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca. Continue reading →

CGE Seminar Wednesday 9th November 2016: Dr Nicola Galloway

Please join us for the next Centre for Global Englishes seminar. When: Wednesday 9th November, 5-6.30pm Where: Avenue Campus, Lecture Theatre C Who: Dr Nicola Galloway, University of Edinburgh Research to classroom practice: Global Englishes and ELT textbooks “the prevailing orientation in…..ELT materials still remains undoubtedly towards ENL” (Jenkins, 2012: 487). Continue reading →

Modern Languages students to participate in Global Englishes PhD conference

A number of Modern Languages PhD students will be participating in the Global Englishes PhD conference, organised by the Centre for Global Englishes, on Friday 24th June 2016 at St Mary’s Stadium, Southampton. This one-day conference aims to enable PhD students from different institutions and countries who are researching different aspects of Global Englishes to network and present their research. Continue reading →

CGE Seminar Wed 4th May 2016: Dr Jo Angouri

Please join us for the next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar. When: Wednesday 4th May, 5-6.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Jo Angouri, University of Warwick ‘The politics of language in the global workplace’ Abstract TBA.   The post CGE Seminar Wed 4th May 2016: Dr Jo Angouri appeared first on The Institute for Language and Culture. Continue reading →

Global Englishes PhD conference, Centre for Global Englishes, University of Southampton, Friday 24th June 2016

On Friday 24th June 2016 from 10am to 5.30pm we are holding a one-day conference for up to 50 PhD students who are researching any aspect of Global Englishes. The event will begin with a keynote from Professor Anna Mauranen and then the rest of the day will consist of presentations and discussions from PhD students and recent postdocs.  We are offering free participation to both speakers and audience, and will include early and mid-morning and mid-afternoon refreshments, and lunch. Continue reading →

CGE Seminar Wed 24th February 2016: Prof Anna Mauranen

Please join us for the next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar. When: Wednesday 24th February 2016, 5-6.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Prof Anna Mauranen, Vice-Rector and Professor of English, University of Helsinki How do we write in English as a Lingua Franca? As ELF research has shown, communicating in English as a Lingua Franca is highly successful despite manifesting certain non-standard features, much along the lines of dialects and other non-standard varieties. Continue reading →

CGE Seminar Wed 2nd December 2015: Prof Jennifer Jenkins

Please join us for the next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar. When: Wednesday 2nd December 2015, 5-6.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Prof Jennifer Jenkins, University of Southampton International English-language university entry tests: are they fit for purpose? My talk will begin by exploring some empirical data in which international students discuss their views of the international English language university entry tests. Continue reading →

CGE seminar Wed 14th October: Dr Ying Wang

When: Wed 14th October, 5-7pm Where: Avenue Campus, 65/LTC Who: Dr Ying Wang, University of Southampton Chinese university students’ ELF awareness: Impacts of language education in China A wealth of research into the global phenomenon of English as a lingua franca (ELF) has motivated the call for the development of ELF awareness in language pedagogies. Continue reading →

CGE Seminar 29 April: Christopher J Hall, York St John University

Centre for Global Englishes seminar Wednesday 29th April, 5-6.30pm, Lecture Theatre C (Avenue Campus) Reconceptualising grammar for a pedagogy of Global Englishes Christopher J Hall, York St John University In this talk I address the need to reconceptualise grammar for learning, teaching, and assessment in the light of new understandings of the nature of Global Englishes and of language as a cognitive phenomenon. Continue reading →