Research and Policy Events for Academic Impact
Second Language Education Group (SLEG) Seminar Series
Cambridge Annual Lectures on Second Language Learning and Teaching
(1) How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education?
Professor Lourdes Oretga, Georgetown University
Launch event, Monday 13 May 2019, 17:00-18:30
(2) Specificity, academic writing and EAP
Professor Ken Hyland, University of East Anglia
Monday 11 Nov 2019, 17:00-18:30
Cambridge Masterclasses on Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy
(1) Paradoxes of multilingualism in public policy
Professor Lourdes Oretga, Georgetown University
Launch event, Tuesday 14 May 2019, 10:00-12:00
(2) Micro-level language policy and planning: Levels, agency and structure
Professor Tony Liddicoat, University of Warwick
Thursday 30 Jan 2020, 14:00-16:00
Interdisciplinary Workshops for Knowledge Transfer
Workshop 10: Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) for Schools and Communities
17:15 Tuesday 5 November 2019
International Workshop based on the British Council Project on CLIL (Cambridge and Utrecht)
Workshop 9: Identity approaches to language learning
17:15 Tuesday 6 November 2018 DMB 1S3 (16:50 for social gathering)
Interactive workshop based on the AHRC OWRI Project on Multilingualism
Workshop 8: Story-telling and integrated communities: Local government perspectives
14:00 - 16:00 Thursday 24 May 2018 Newnham College (13:30 for social gathering)
Workshop in collaboration with Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages
Workshop 7: Assessing bilingual learners
17:15 Tuesday 7 November 2017 DMB 1S3 (16:50 for social gathering)
Cho, G., Shin, F., & Krashen, S. (2004). What do we know about heritage languages? What do we need to know about them. Multilingual Education, summer, 23-26.
Workshop 6: Language education policy and public exams
17:15 Tuesday 8 November 2016 DMB 1S3 (16:50 for social gathering)
Handeley, S. (2011). Promoting community language learning in the United Kingdom. Language Learning Journal, 39(2), 149-162.
Workshop 5: Provision of heritage language education
17:15 Tuesday 10 November 2015 DMB 1S3 (16:50 for social gathering)
The results of the National Heritage Language Survey: Implications for teaching, curriculum design, and professional development. Foreign Language Annals, 44(1), 40-64.
Workshop 4: Language maintenance in trilingual families
17:15 Tuesday 12 May 2015 DMB 1S3 (16:50 for social gathering)
Braun, A., & Cline, T. (2010). Trilingual families in mainly monolingual societies: Working towards a typology. International Journal of Multilingualism, 7(2), 110-127.
Workshop 3: Multilingualism, transnationalism and identity
17:15 Tuesday 11 November 2014 DMB 1S3 (16:50 for social gathering)
Duff, P. (2015). Multilingualism, transnationalism and identity. International Review of Applied Linguistics, 35, 57-80.
Workshop 2: Heritage language learner characteristics
17:15 Tuesday 13 May 2014 DMB 2S7 (16:50 for social gathering)
Lee, J. S. (2005). Through the learners’ eyes: Reconceptualizing the heritage and non-heritage learner of the less commonly taught languages. Foreign Language Annals, 38(4), 554-565.
Workshop 1: Pedagogy and translanguaging
17:15 Tuesday 12 Nov 2013 DMB 2S5 (16:50 for social gathering)
Creese, A. & Blackledge, A. (2012). Translanguaging in the bilingual classroom: A pedagogy for learning and teaching? Modern Language Journal, 94(i), 103-115.
Professional Development Workshops for Community Impact
In partnership with Cambridge Bilingual Groups, a local support organisation for community language schools in Cambridge and surrounding areas.
Workshop 6: Working with bilingual children with autisum, October 2019
Workshop 5: Safeguarding for community language schools, May 2019
Workshop 4: Special education needs of bilingual children, April 2019
Workshop 3: Arts-based language teaching, 3 June 2018
Workshop 2: Lesson planning, 18 April 2018
Workshop 1: Teaching writing skills, 2 July 2017