Aston English Research Seminar

All seminars will take place in Room MB 565 (unless stated otherwise) from 4:00pm – 5:30pm. All welcome.

October 5

Roger Barnard, University of Waikato

October 26

CLERA Launch
Donald Freeman, University of Michigan

Rethinking how language ‘goes to school’: Social capital in teaching and learning new languages.
Room G8
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November 2

Joe Fagan and Liz Tanguay, Aston University

Modality and Learner Writing and Stance in Academic Seminars

November 16

Evelyn Ziegler, University of Duisburg-Essen - Jointly hosted with LTS

Linguistic Landscapes

November 30

Richard Pemberton, University of Nottingham

Autonomy in language learning

December 14

Annamaria Pinter and Harry Kuchar, University of Warwick

Ethics and working with children

January 18	Paul Baker, Lancaster University Muslim women and veiling: a corpus based investigation
February 1	Joe Bennett, University of Birmingham ‘Chavspeak’: the role of sociolinguistic stylisations in making the ‘chav’
February 15	TBC
March 7	Chris Heffer, Cardiff University
March 21	Caroline Tagg, University of Birmingham Investigating multilingual interactions on an online social network site
April 25	Garry Plappert, Aston University
May 9	Michelle Aldridge, Cardiff University
June 6	TBC