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Cross-centre seminar Wednesday 8th March 2017

Cross-centre seminar, led by the Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) and chaired by Professor Jennifer Jenkins. When: Wednesday 8th March 2017, 5-6.30pm Where: Building 65, Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Prof Clare Mar-Molinero, Prof Roumyana Slabakova, Dr Dick Vigers and Prof Jennifer Jenkins. Perspectives on multilingualism Over the past ten years or so, multilingualism has become a hot topic in linguistics research. Continue reading →

TNS Seminar Wednesday 22nd February: Prof Patrick Stevenson

Please join us for the next Centre for Transnational Studies (TNS) seminar. When: Wednesday 22nd February, 5-6.30pm Where: Building 65, Room 1177, Avenue Campus Who: Prof Patrick Stevenson, University of Southampton The Language of Others: Writing Berlin Lives Berlin is a multicultural and multilingual city in the heart of Europe. Continue reading →

The Center for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) to host the 14th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference (GASLA 14) 6-9 April 2017

The Center for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) is pleased to announce the 14th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference (GASLA 14) to be held at the University of Southampton, the United Kingdom on 6-9 April 2017. The conference provides a forum for discussion of recent, high quality research on second language acquisition, bilingual and multilingual acquisition, psycholinguistics and neurocognition. Continue reading →

Register for your place at ‘Frameworks for collaboration and multilingualism’ conference

Don’t forget to register for your place at the LLAS/UCML/AULC ‘Languages in Higher Education’ conference, on the theme of ‘Frameworks for Collaboration and Multilingualism’, before the registration deadline of Thursday 30th June 2016! The conference will take place at the University of Warwick on 6-7 July 2016, and aims to bring together language practitioners from Secondary, Higher and Further Education to celebrate language collaborations and innovations across... Continue reading →

CGE Seminar Wed 9th March 2016: Prof Li Wei

Please join us for the next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar. When: Wednesday 9th March 2016, 5-6.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Professor Li Wei, UCL-IoE Post Multilingualism, Translanguaging and Linguistic Creativity This talk looks at examples of translanguaging practices in complementary schools for minority ethnic children in the UK, multi-modality linguistic practices by multilingual speakers, and New Chinglish from a Post-Multilingualism perspective. Continue reading →

Call for papers for LLAS/UCML/AULC ‘Languages in Higher Education’ conference now open

The call for papers for the 8th biennial joint LLAS, UCML and AULC conference is now open. The event, entitled ‘Frameworks for Collaboration and Multilingualism’ will take place at the University of Warwick on 6-7 July 2016. The conference aims to bring together language practitioners from Secondary, Higher, and Further Education to celebrate language collaborations and innovations across the sector. Continue reading →

New research story: Berlin Lives by Patrick Stevenson

Berlin Lives: Multilingual Metropolis Patrick Stevenson We know a great deal about multilingualism – but not as much as we might think. It’s certainly true, for example, that great efforts have been devoted to identifying and counting the world’s languages: global language research organisations tell us that over 700 languages are spoken by indigenous peoples in Indonesia alone. Continue reading →