Call for papers – EDUCATION AND MIGRATION: LANGUAGE FOREGROUNDED, October 2016, Durham

The purpose of this international conference is to bring together researchers and educators who are researching and working in educational contexts where human beings, and their language(s), are under pain and pressure. Ongoing and forced migration—resulting from protracted civil war, unremitting poverty and economic hardship, and political unrest and ecological instability—often results in the termination of education for some, or […]

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Seminar Series: Research Methods in Intercultural Communication, 2nd March, Edinburgh Napier

This is the first talk in the seminar series Research Methods in Intercultural Communication, hosted by the Languages Group at Edinburgh Napier. ‘Rethinking Concepts and Goals in Intercultural Communication: Insights from Global Englishes Research’ Will Baker (Centre for Global Englishes, University of Southampton) http://www.southampton.ac.uk/ml/about/staff/wmlb.page Date: Wednesday 2nd March, 3pm (Coffee and refreshments will be served at 2.45pm) Venue: Room 2/05, Edinburgh Napier Business School, Craiglockhart Campus, 219 Colinton Rd, Edinburgh EH14 1DJ – […]

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Seminar at Goldsmiths, University College, London with Prof Andy Kirkpatrick on ‘English as a Lingua Franca in Asia – implications for pedagogy’

Speaker: Prof Andy Kirkpatrick  (Griffith University, Australia) Thursday 29 October, at 17:00 in room RHB 137 (Richard Hoggart building) Location: Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/ Abstract In this presentation I shall consider the implications of the development of English as a lingua franca in East and Southeast Asia with a focus on two specific issues: first, what are […]

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