‘Death: the end of our stories, or only the beginning?’ When: Wednesday 14th December, 5-6.30pm Where: Room 1177, Building 65, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Eleanor Jones –  ‘Death stories: encountering the corpse in narratives of Lusophone Africa’ From the earliest days of European maritime expansionism in the fifteenth century, when the unknowability of the territory […]

Please join us for the next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar. When: Wednesday 7th December, 5-6.30pm Where: LTC, Building 65, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Caroline Tagg, The Open University Communicating across online and offline spaces: a mobile-supported business model for migrant micro-entrepreneurs In this talk, I draw on data from a large ethnographic project to […]

A symposium in honour of Professor Michael Kelly will be held Friday 20th January 2017 at Europe House, London. Mike has recently retired after a long and distinguished career as Professor of French at the University of Southampton. He has published widely in the area of French Studies and more recently in the field of languages […]

We shall dedicate the forthcoming series of TNS seminars to the theme of moving stories. This involves stories which move literally across borders and contexts, as well as stories which move us emotionally. As students of societies, histories and cultures we often engage stories in order to understand and analyse our subject. Stories come in […]

Please join us for the next Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) seminar. When: Wednesday 16th November, 16:30-18:30 Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Sophie Holmes-Elliott, University of Southampton That’s what she said – a sociophonetic investigation of class and gender in southeast England Previous work on /s/ variation in […]

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). Theoretical and empirical work […]

Please join us for the next Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) seminar. When: Wednesday 19th October 2016, 4-6pm Where: B65/LTC, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Linnaea Stockall, Queen Mary University of London Humpty-Dumpty’s Problem: how do we put morphologically complex words back together again? Over the past 15 years, considerable evidence from a […]

We have two free events for all staff, including PGR students, in September: Working Interculturally Seminar,  Monday 19 September, 10 am – 1 pm in 85/2207. Here we will be presenting results of the Staff Survey, International and Intercultural Aspects of Working at the University, undertaken in April/May.  The presentation will be followed by discussion of […]

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 […]

On 24 June 2016, the University of Southampton’s Centre for Global Englishes held a one-day international PhD conference on Global Englishes in the Marcus Liebherr Lounge of Southampton Football Club. This conference was designed for doctoral and early postdoc students working in the research field of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), or more broadly, […]