by Professor Kira Hall, University of Colorado Boulder The QMUL Linguistics Department and the Centre for Language, Discourse and Communication at King’s are thrilled to welcome Professor Kira Hall (University of Colorado Boulder) for a special invited talk, entitled ‘Middle Class Timelines, Ethnic Humour, and Sexual Modernity in Delhi’, on Thursday 4th April at 17:00 … Continue reading Middle Class Timelines, Ethnic Humour, and Sexual Modernity in Delhi
Category: Seminars
Corpus Analysis or Close Reading? A Case Study on Press Representations of Obesity by Prof. Paul Baker
Doing an MA dissertation on motivation with FOLLM
The Forum On Language Learning Motivation are holding an event on how to successfully complete a masters dissertation in motivation for language learning and teaching. If you're interested, find out more here. To register, go to this page.
Bridging the Gap Between Past and Present: Narrative Nonfiction in the Primary History Classroom
Join us at the Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication for a seminar with Emma Browning, one of our PhD students, who will be discussing her research findings. The seminar is on at 2-3pm on Wednesday 6th February and is the first seminar this term in the Language, Mind and Society series.
The Development of Children’s Understanding of Death by Georgia Panagiotaki and Carys Seeley
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
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