Georgia Pangiotaki, a Senior Lecturer at Norwich Medical School and Carys Seeley from the School of Psychology at the University of East Anglia will speak about their work investigating children's understanding of death. The research explores the development a child's understanding of death between 7 to 12 years and how this is affected by background … Continue reading The Development of Children’s Understanding of Death by Georgia Panagiotaki and Carys Seeley
Category: Seminars
Language educators in the context of constant change: a talk by Dr Diane Potts
Dr Diane Potts will be speaking at Queen Mary, University of London on Thursday 29th November from 4.30pm - 5.30pm. Her talk is titled 'Reflecting on the profession: language educators in the context of constant change'. "If everyone teaches language, who is the language educator? This decades-old question is worth asking anew with the rise … Continue reading Language educators in the context of constant change: a talk by Dr Diane Potts
Cross-London Sociolinguistics Seminar at KCL
The Centre for Language, Discourse and Communication at King's College London will be holding a Cross-London Sociolinguistics seminar on Tuesday 27th November 2018, from 5-7pm. This sessions will explore issues around these areas: Are questions about political engagement becoming more salient for sociolinguists, and if so, why? What, if anything, can we learn from the … Continue reading Cross-London Sociolinguistics Seminar at KCL
Impact! Ways of Managing the Ouch Factor with Prof Celia Roberts
Celia Roberts will be joining us at ECS on Tuesday 27th November for a presentation and discussion on impact. More details below: Lessons learnt from two long-term applied research projects are used to illustrate how we can engage with and influence the values and practices of institutions, and some of the frustrations we may encounter … Continue reading Impact! Ways of Managing the Ouch Factor with Prof Celia Roberts
IATEFL Annual Web Conference 2018
This year's web conference is entitled: Finding yourself as a teacher and will focus on the needs and challenges of the beginner teacher. While remaining open to all language teaching professionals, the conference is focusing on the early career teacher area. Over three days it will provide different sessions on topics relevant to that area including a look at the different types of language teaching both contextually and thematically, … Continue reading IATEFL Annual Web Conference 2018
Maria Charalambous speaks at the Centre of Language, Culture & Learning
Maria Charalambous will be speaking at the Centre for Language, Culture & Learning at Goldsmiths University on "Investing in a reflective multiliteracies pedagogy for heritage language learners". The talk is organised in collaboration with the Cyprus Educational Mission, UK. Details are provided below and more information can be found here. Wednesday October 31 12-1.30pm Rm 220 Margaret Macmillan … Continue reading Maria Charalambous speaks at the Centre of Language, Culture & Learning
Teaching EAL students across the disciplines in higher education Seminar
This invitation was originally sent to us by the British Association of Applied Linguistics. UCL IoE Centre for Applied Linguistics Research Seminar Series Teaching EAL students across the disciplines in higher education: challenges, dilemmas, and plurilingual pedagogy Dr. Steve Marshall, Simon Fraser University Wednesday 17 October, 5:30-6:30 pm, Jeffery Hall, 20 Bedford Way Traditionally, the … Continue reading Teaching EAL students across the disciplines in higher education Seminar
