Middle Class Timelines, Ethnic Humour, and Sexual Modernity in Delhi

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

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

English Language Teaching in the Changing Glocalised World: Research and Praxis

This will be the focus of the 16th Asia TEFL International Conference to be held at the end of June at the University of Macau in China. The conference 'provides a forum to address the issues that ELT practitioners face in the changing glocalized world. Research into applied linguistics and ELT highlights a tension between two trends,' which will be discussed … Continue reading English Language Teaching in the Changing Glocalised World: Research and Praxis

International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca to be held at King’s

ELF 11 is the 11th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca, which will be held at King’s College London from 4th – 7th July, 2018. This is an annual event that attracts academics, researchers and practitioners from all over the world. The themes of this year’s conference are Migration and Multilingualism. The plenary … Continue reading International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca to be held at King’s

L2 Pragmatics Conference

For all those interested in second language learning, an L2 Pragmatics Conference will be held in late June. Teaching and learning L2 pragmatics: Second language pragmatic development in the home and study abroad contexts International Conference 28-29 June 2018 – Preston, United Kingdom Confirmed Speakers Professor Naoko Taguchi (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) Professor Guofang … Continue reading L2 Pragmatics Conference

Our Languages Seminar

Our Languages: Sociolinguistics in multilingual participatory ESOL classes with Melanie Cooke (King's College, London & English for Action), Becky Winstanley (Tower Hamlets College, EFA & KCL) & Dermot Bryers (EFA & KCL) Date: Monday 21st May 2018 Time: 17.45 Place: Room 1.13, Franklin Wilkins Building, Stamford Street, King's College, London. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/campus/waterloo.aspx (the entrance is marked 'A' on the … Continue reading Our Languages Seminar