And another free event in Edinburgh – The Unit of Analysis in Multilingual Interactions: Where Do We Draw the Line? Professor Suresh Canagarajah

17th June 2016 at 3pm Edinburgh Napier University, Craiglockhart Campus Professor Suresh Canagarajah (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor, Departments of Applied Linguistics and English and Director of the Migration Studies Project, Pennsylvania State University) The Unit of Analysis in Multilingual Interactions: Where Do We Draw the Line? Organised by: Edinburgh Napier Languages Group in collaboration with SAS University of London Followed […]

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

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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Course in qualitative data analysis at Kings College, London, July 2016

Is ‘qualitative data analysis’ too vague for you?  Are you wondering how to do justice to your data? ‘Key concepts and methods in ethnography, language & communication’ 4 – 8 July 2016   If you are researching social processes, institutions, culture or identity, but are unsure about how to analyse the discourse data from your fieldwork, then consider joining this […]

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2nd call for papers: 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND ELT Language in Focus: From Theory to Practice: New Directions in ELT and Applied Linguistics, Istanbul, Turkey, March 2016

This is a conference organised by ELT Department of Faculty of Education, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey and being held in Istanbul from March 10-12, 2016. Please note that the deadline for proposals is November 1st Check out the conference website: www.languageinfocus.org for more details. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by November 30th, 2015. From their website: The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for researchers, teachers and […]

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Discourse analysis anyone?

Greetings to you all!  Now that the summer is here most of us, I suspect, are either: a) buried under the pile of reading for a dissertation/abstract/research b)  teaching / working crazy hours during the summer to make ends meet for the fall c) procrastinating by doing anything (i.e. online shopping, lurking on Facebook, blogging here) other than researching d) […]

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