Research Seminar Series (ILC, CGE, CLLEAR, TNS) Wednesdays Avenue Campus All Welcome Date Centre Time Room Speaker Title 01-Oct ILC 5pm-7pm 1177 Dr Jane Lavery, Dr Mark Dinneen, Dr Claire Eldridge, Professor Ulrike Meinhof University of Southampton Research Leave presentations 15-Oct CGE 5pm-7pm LTC Prof Anna Mauranen Helsinki University ‘English as a Lingua Franca – […]

Join us on Wednesday, 1st October 2014 from 5.00pm-7.00pm in 65/ 1177 for the first ILC seminar of 2014-15. Research Leave presentations Dr Jane Lavery: ‘The Art of Ana Clavel: Ghosts, Urinals, Dolls, Shadows and Outlaw Desires’     Dr Mark Dinneen: ‘Brazilian Popular Culture: from Community Tradition to the Hybrid’       Dr […]

A video recording and Powerpoint slides from Professor Ute Smit’s lecture on English-medium education in multilingual university settings: A sociolinguistic examination of interactive explaining in the classroom are now available on the ILC website in the visiting scholars section.

Please join us for the next Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) seminar on Wednesday, 14 May at 5.00pm (Avenue Campus Lecture Theatre C). Dr. Jennifer Smith, University of Glasgow  The loci of inherent variability: what young children reveal Abstract: Inherent variability is pervasive in speech, but where – and how – […]

The next Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) seminar is today (Wednesday 30 April) at 5.00pm (Avenue Campus Lecture Theatre C). Dr. Andrea Revesz , Institute of Education, University of London  Researching task-based language teaching: A focus on task-based processes   Abstract: In the past twenty years, the field of instructed second […]

Please join us for the next TNS seminar on Wednesday 26th March 5.00pm (Avenue Campus Lecture Theatre A). Working with Popular Culture: The Case of Brazil Cesar Paes, film director, Paris  Dr Mark Dinneen,  Southampton   Please join us for the screening of the film Saudade do Futuro (2001), in the presence of its Brazilian-born […]

Please join us for the next CLLEAR seminar on Wednesday (19 March) 5.00pm (Avenue Campus Lecture Theatre C). Dr. Cecile De Cat from University of Leeds. Title: Representational deficit or processing effect? An RT study of noun-noun compound processing by very advanced L2 speakers of English Abstract: Noun-noun compounds (NNCs) are syntactic structures that vary […]

Please join us for a TNS workshop today, Wednesday 12 March, 4.20pm-7.00pm in 65a/2251. A network of ties, or tied to a network? Led by: Jenny Cuffe & Heather Meyer PhD students Heather Meyer and Jenny Cuffe lead a workshop on transnational social ties, using examples from their current research to illustrate what it means […]

Please join us for the next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar on Wednesday 5 March at 5:00 PM (Avenue Campus, Lecture Theatre C). The invited speaker is David Deterding, University of Brunei Darussalam. The topic of his talk is ‘Intelligibility and Misunderstanding in ELF’ Abstract After a brief consideration of norms in English as a […]

Professor Ute Smit from the University of Vienna will be visiting the University of Southampton through the Institute for Language and Culture from 19 – 25 February. While she is here Professor Smit will be giving a seminar in the CLLEAR and CGE seminar series on Wednesday 19 February (5:00, 65/Lecture Theatre A) entitled English-medium […]