Research and Policy Events for Academic Impact
Language Policy Forum 2020
Second Language Education Group (SLEG) Seminar Series
Cambridge Distinguished Lectures on Second Language Learning and Teaching
(4) Language teacher wellbeing: Dispelling myths, complexifying constructs, and setting an agenda
Professor Sarah Mercer, University of Graz
Monday, 1 March 2021, 17:00-18:30
(3) Specificity, academic writing and EAP
Professor Ken Hyland, University of East Anglia
Monday, 11 Nov 2019, 17:00-18:30
(2) How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education?
Professor Lourdes Oretga, Georgetown University
Monday, 13 May 2019, 17:00-18:30
Professor Bonny Norton, British Columbia University
Friday, 13 September 2019, 14:00-15:00
Cambridge Masterclasses on Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy
(4) Emeritus Professor Jim Cummins, University of Toronto
Monday, 18 Jan 2021, 15:00-17:00
(3) Micro-level language policy and planning: Levels, agency and structure
Professor Tony Liddicoat, University of Warwick
Thursday, 30 Jan 2020, 14:00-16:00
(2) Paradoxes of multilingualism in public policy
Professor Lourdes Oretga, Georgetown University
Tuesday, 14 May 2019, 10:00-12:00
Professor Patricia Duff, University of British Columbia
Monday, 27 Nov 2014, 17:00-18:30
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 and Linguistics (MMLL)
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
CRiCLE works in partnership with Cambridge Bilingual Groups, a local support organisation for community language schools in Cambridge and surrounding areas, to deliever professional development workshops.
Workshop 9: Working with bilingual children in the family, 6 March 2020
Workshop 8: Understanding literacy progression in primary schools, 1 March 2020
Workshop 7: Safeguarding training for community language teachers, 25 January 2020
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