Second Language Education Group

The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Learning and Teaching

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

Professor Ulrike Jessner-Schmid, University of Innsbruck.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 17 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Plurilingualism and Assessment (with reference to the new Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Companion Volume)

Dr. Nick Saville, Cambridge English Assessment.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Cambridge Annual Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching 2019 Specificity, Academic Writing and EAP

Professor Ken Hyland, University of East Anglia.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 11 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Multilingual Classrooms: From Conceptualisation to Implementation to Professional Development

Professor Rick de Graaff, University of Utrecht, Dr.Dieuwerke Rutgers, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 04 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Paradoxes of multilingualism in public policy in conjunction with the launching of Cambridge Masterclass Series on Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy

Please book with Ann Waterman on aw244@cam.ac.uk if you would like to attend

Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 10:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education?

in conjunction of the launching Cambridge Annual Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching

Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 13 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

The Listening Zones of NGOs: Languages and cultural knowledge in development programmes

There will be a drinks reception after the seminar

Professor Hilary Footitt, University of Reading.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 11 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Creativity in the languages classroom: Learners' responses to literary text

Dr.Linda Fisher, University of Cambridge , Professor Suzanne Graham, Reading University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 28 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

EMI in Francophone Cameroon: What can we learn from victims of English?

There will be a drinks reception after the seminar

Dr. Harry Kuchah Kuchah, University of Leeds.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 19 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Pardon my French! Exploring the myths and realities of Second Language Education in Canada

Dr Shawn Bullock, University of Cambridge, Dr Cecile Sabatier, Simon Fraser University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 05 November 2018, 17:30-19:00

Second Language Education Group

The role of medium of instruction for multilingual children: a study of primary school children in India".

Professor Ianthi Tsimpli, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 22 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Multilingual Identities and Heterogeneous Language Ideologies in the New Latino Diaspora

Professor Stanton Wortham, Boston College.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Tuesday 06 March 2018, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Changing languages in European Higher Education: from official policies to unofficial classroom practices

Dr. Emma Dafouz, Complutense University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Multilingual practices and attitudes among university students in Europe and the US: implications for the teaching of languages

Professor Anne Pauwels, School of Asian and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 29 January 2018, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Vocabulary: Principles and Practice

Professor Norbert Schmitt, University of Nottingham.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 30 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

The Influence of Multilingual Identity on Foreign Language Learning

AHRC MEITS Project Team, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Cross-linguistic Transfer of Learning Strategies between First and Foreign Language Classroom Contexts: Making a Case for a Multilingual Approach to Writing Pedagogy

Dr Karen Forbes, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 27 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

On the Margins: Slovak Roma Children Negotiating Language and Education in Sheffield

Dr Mark Payne, University of Sheffield.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 30 January 2017, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Cognitive Discourse Functions as joint concern in language and content pedagogy

Professor Christiane Dalton-Puffer, University of Vienna.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Language Development and School Achievement of EAL Students: EALead Project II

EALead Project Team, University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 21 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Lexical Patterns of Austerity in UK Broadsheet Text 2007-15

Dr Mike Scott, Aston University and Lexical Analysis Software Ltd..

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 07 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

The Value of Languages: Towards a UK Strategy for Languages

Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 24 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

The ‘Multilingual Turn’ in Languages Education - a future for EAL?

Dr Jean Conteh, School of Education, University of Leeds.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 16 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Task-based Language Teaching with Technology: The EU-Funded CAMELOT Project

Dr Michael Thomas, University of Central Lancashire.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

The 'social' in English language teaching: Situated accomplishments

Professor Constant Leung, King's College London.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 27 October 2014, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Styling in a Language Learned Later in Life

All Welcome!

Professor Ben Rampton, Professor of Applied and Socio-linguistics, King’s College London.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Second language listening comprehension in England: strategy instruction and teacher understanding.

Professor Suzanne Graham from Reading University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 14 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

‘Second language listening comprehension in England: strategy instruction and teacher understanding’

All Welcome!

Professor Suzanne Graham, Reading University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 14 November 2011, 17:00-18:30