Susan Dawson

Call for abstracts: 19th International Postgraduate Conference in Applied Linguistics, Warwick, June 2016

21/03/2016 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

Warwick Applied Linguistics is pleased to announce its 19th International Postgraduate Conference held from Tuesday, 28th to Thursday, 30th June 2016. Our Postgraduate Conference is widely attended by many students within and outside the UK. Being a ‘conference by students for students’, we aim to provide a platform for graduate students to showcase their paper or poster and get valuable […]

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Call for papers: Second International Conference on Bilingual Education, Cordoba, Spain, November 2016

14/03/2016 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

You can find precise information on the dates, venue, fees for attendants and speakers, and modalities of participation on their website.

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PhDs, Creative Arts and Researching Multilingually

10/03/2016 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

Linked to Kelly and Min’s LLT about using creative arts in research, here is another example from Gameli Tordzro of the AHRC Researching Multilingually at Borders project. He is using film to look at how music crosses barriers in a migration context, and the focus here is on Ghanaian and Danish musicians.

Researching multilingually

Job opportunity: Lecturer in Applied Languages, University of Sheffield

10/03/2016 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

Closing Date 6th April 2016 The School of Languages and Cultures wishes to recruit a Lecturer in Applied Languages from 1 September 2016 or as soon as possible thereafter. The Applied Languages Section of the School of Languages and Cultures has an excellent reputation for the quality and innovation of its teaching. Staff have a range of research interests in […]

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LANTERN Lunchtime Talk no. 4 – They thought they heard somebody who had risen from their grave”: stories of multilingual, collaborative narrative research into Ladino and intercultural identity

07/03/2016 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

Here is last Friday’s LTT by Leah and Richard. Also available in the Links tab

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LANTERN Lunchtime talk No. 3: Using visual-creative-arts to explore intercultural personhood and maths identities

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You can now listen to Kelly and Min’s talk online. Access it here Also available via the Links tab.

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Call for papers: Languages and Cultures in 21st Century Transnationality CFP, Sheffield Hallam, September 2016

29/02/2016 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

A broadly defined conference for those looking for something more interdisciplinary. The concept of transnationality is increasingly common currency in the globalized world. Modern Languages, both implicitly or explicitly, deals with the transnational aspects of cultures and, as a discipline, it is hence ideally suited to have societal impact on the construction of transnational education. Intercultural citizenship, in particular, is […]

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Call for papers – Cutting Edges Research Conference: Crossing boundaries, Canterbury, June 206

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A free one-day conference for those researching in the fields of applied linguistics, TESOL, modern languages, intercultural communication and education Friday, 10th June, Canterbury Christ Church University, School of Language Studies & Applied Linguistics We invite papers which deal with crossing or critiquing established boundaries regarding English in the world – standards, circles, ownership, definition, usage So-called ‘native speakers’ and ‘non-native speakers’ […]

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Creative Writing for Academics workshop

22/02/2016 Susan Dawson 6 comments

Volha and I have just returned from a workshop led by Kip Jones of Bournemouth University entitled ‘Creative writing for academics’. It was a two day workshop, and to be honest, I was not really sure what to expect. We had been asked to take an article we had written that included interview data, and to note down any dreams we had. […]

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Call for papers: INTERCULTURAL LANGUAGE EDUCATION AND GLOBALISATION: CURRENT PRACTICE AND TRENDS, Budapest, June 2016

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The Language Department of the Faculty of Commerce, Catering and Tourism at Budapest Business School (BBS) is organizing an international specialist seminar in Budapest on 16-17th June 2016 titled INTERCULTURAL LANGUAGE EDUCATION AND GLOBALISATION: CURRENT PRACTICE AND TRENDS. As a multiplier event of the ICCAGE project (Intercultural Communicative Competence – A Competitive Advantage for Global Employability), this event will bring […]

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Call for papers: ESRC seminar series – The Multilingual University final conference, 8-9 July 2016

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ESRC Seminar series: The Multilingual University: The Impact of Linguistic Diversity on Higher Education in English-dominant and English Medium Instructional Contexts Seminar 6: The linguistic landscape in higher education in English-dominant and EMI settings: Future directions UCL Institute of Education 8th-9th July 2016 Despite an established body of knowledge on linguistic diversity and bi/multilingual learners in compulsory and complementary schooling, there is […]

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Congratulations to Renia Kidonia (MA alumnus) on her first published paper

16/02/2016 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

Renia’s paper is entitled Experiential learning of English in Greek All-Day Primary Schools: investigating curriculum implementation, and has been published in Research Papers in Language Teaching and Learning. Brilliant news Renia and thanks for sharing with us.

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New issue of Research Papers in Language Teaching and learning now available

15/02/2016 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

You can access Vol 7 no 1 of RPLTL here under Current Issue This issue has two main foci: one focusing on teachers (their attitudes, development, perceptions about their learners and the curriculum), and another one focusing on learners. Of all the papers, six have an interest in the former, ten on the latter. Of the papers the focus on learners, nine (the vast majority, in […]

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Upcoming LANTERN Lunchtime Talks

11/02/2016 Susan Dawson One comment

LANTERN Lunchtime Talks Ellen Wilkinson C3.30 Using visual-creative-arts to explore intercultural personhood and maths identities Zhuomin Huang and Kelly Pickard-Smith Friday 26th February 12.00-13.00 Zhuomin and Kelly share some of the visual-creative-arts methods they are using in their doctoral research projects, focussing on the kinds of insights these methods might enable and how they allow them to explore the key concepts […]

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Summer school on Intercultural Relations, Turku, Finland, August 2016

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Introducing and Exploring Intercultural Relations in Everyday Life August 9-19, 2016 in Turku, Finland http://www.tuas.fi/en/study-tuas/exchange-students/international-summer-school/ We keep hearing that we are living in an intercultural world and that we need to prepare for it. What does this really mean? How do we meet ‘other’ people? What are intercultural relations made of? This introductory course will tell you everything about the […]

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