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Discover how connecting classrooms across countries can energise language education. Join Lingua Connect students and teachers to explore and celebrate collaborative authentic learning. What happens when students learn each other’s languages while creating something together? Join students and teachers from Leeds and partner universities in Brazil and Mexico to explore how Collaborative Online International Learning...
The purpose of the Thinking Strategically series is to bring researchers in the subject area together to discuss issues of major concern and to ensure that, as a disciplinary community, we can ensure effective, joined-up action at all levels for the future development of the study of languages and cultures. In this session, Cathy Hampton...
This online workshop explores how Plain Language and Easy Language can make public administration communication more accessible, transparent, and inclusive for people with diverse characteristics, from the lay citizen not necessarily knowing technical jargon to citizens with reading difficulties. These include, among others, people with intellectual disabilities, dyslexia, low literacy skills, little command of the...
From slang and texting to gender-neutral pronouns, why do linguistic innovations provoke such strong reactions? Discover why language change sparks controversy and what linguists really think. From new pronouns and texting abbreviations to slang, borrowed words, and changing grammar, language is constantly evolving. Yet every new development seems to provoke complaints that language is being...
Public talk on the history of the German housewives’ movement, drawing links to the 21st century social media phenomenon of tradwives.
Join Ukrainian children's author, poet and translator Kateryna Mikhalitsyna for an interactive workshop exploring the world of picture books. Aimed at pupils aged 7-14, this engaging session will introduce pupils to storytelling, illustration and reading for pleasure through a selection of picture books, including Kateryna's latest work, Summertime on the Island. Pupils will also take...
This talk for schools introduces Exchange2Change, a programme developed by the Goethe Institut UK, enabling creative collaboration between the UK and Germany for pupils aged 14–17 with no prior German knowledge. Exchange2Change is the Goethe Institut’s vibrant youth mobility and exchange programme, connecting young people from the UK and Germany. Whether exploring creative projects, developing...
Webinar: Knowing which bilingual children to refer: using a parental questionnaire to screen for language difficulties by Professor Cecile de Cat Which bilingual pupils should you refer for language support, and which just need more time? This online session explains how a free parental questionnaire, Q-BEx, helps educators screen fairly and decide. Bilingual and multilingual...
Help your students discover the opportunities that language learning can unlock. In this inspiring webinar for secondary pupils, guest speakers share their personal language-learning journeys and explain how languages have helped shape their studies, travel experiences and careers. Ideal for students considering their GCSE options, the session highlights the real-world value of languages and the...
What impact can AI have on our languages, as vehicles for communication and repositories of knowledge? Explore the challenges and proposals for sustaining languages as living, community-led, cultural treasures in the age of AI. Our languages hold generations of human experience. Through them, communities create, interpret and share knowledge, giving meaning to the worlds we...