Author Archives: Erin Forward

CANCELLED – CLLEAR Seminar Wed 3rd February 2016: Prof Steve Walsh

Please join us for the next Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) seminar. When: Wednesday 3rd February 2016, 4-5.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Prof Steve Walsh, Newcastle University L2 Classroom Interactional Competence and Teacher Development In this talk, I offer an initial conceptualisation of Classroom Interactional Competence (CIC), defined […]

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Workshop on Impact in research, education and enterprise Wed 27th January

When: Wednesday 27th January 2016, 5-6.30pm Where: Building 65, Room 1177, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Steve Dorney The University is strongly committed to ensuring that all of our activities – in research, education and enterprise (broadly understood) – are of benefit to the wider society outside the institution. In Humanities, there is now a committee dedicated […]

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Presentations from TNS Debate 25th November 2015: Prof Jon Adams, Prof Neil Wrigley and Prof Ulrike Meinhof

The TNS Debate The Impact of Research What do we understand by it and what counts as evidence in the Humanities and the Social Sciences Please see below the presentations from the seminar: Wrigley – TNS Debate Adams – Impact REF2014 Meinhof – Impact study cultural diasporas

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Joint TNS and Archaeology Seminar Wed 9th December 2015: Dr Rodney Harrison

Please join us for the next Centre for Transnational Studies (TNS) seminar, in collaboration with Archaeology. When: Wednesday 9th December 2015, 5-6.30pm Where: Room 1173, Building 65, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Rodney Harrison Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage How does heritage make the future? From nuclear waste in Sweden to global endangered languages, from a […]

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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 […]

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TNS Seminar Wed 25th Nov 2015: Prof Neil Wrigley, Prof Jon Adams and Prof Ulrike Meinhof

Please join us for the next Centre for Transnational Studies (TNS) seminar. When: Wednesday 25th November 2015, 5-6.30pm Where: Room 1173, Building 65, Avenue Campus Who: Prof Neil Wrigley, Prof Jon Adams and Prof Ulrike Meinhof The Impact of Research: What do we understand by it and what counts as evidence in the Humanities and […]

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CLLEAR seminar Wed 18th November 2015: Prof Jeannette Littlemore

Please join us for the next Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) seminar. When: Wednesday 18th November 2015, 4-6pm Where: Avenue Campus, Lecture Theatre C Who:  Prof Jeannette Littlemore, University of Birmingham The Creative Use of Metaphor and Metonymy in Language Learning and Intercultural Communication Studies of figurative language (particularly metaphor) have […]

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CGE Seminar Wed 11th November 2015: Prof Marion Demossier, Dr Will Baker and Dr Karin Zotzmann

Please join us for the next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) open seminar. When: Wednesday 11th November 2015, 5-6.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Prof Marion Demossier, Dr Will Baker and Dr Karin Zotzmann Perspectives on intercultural communication and intercultural communicative competence In our age of superdiversity and unprecedented mobility (both actual and […]

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CLLEAR seminar Wed 21st October: Prof Theo Marinis

Please join us for the next Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) seminar. When: Wed 21st October 2015, 4-6pm Where: Avenue Campus, 65/LTC Who: Prof Theo Marinis, University of Reading Acquiring definite and indefinite articles across populations: L2 children, children with SLI and children with Autism Spectrum Disorders In this talk I […]

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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. […]

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