Second Language Education Group

Constructing identities in multilingual classrooms: the experiences of immigrant-background children in primary schools in France and England

Dr. Oakleigh Welply, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

Monday 17 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

The corner house with Aesop over the door: William Godwin's 'Juvenile Library'

Professor Matthew Grenby, Newcastle University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

Wednesday 22 January 2014, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

‘Intercultural citizenship’ – a purpose for foreign language education?

Professor Mike Byram, University of Durham .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

Monday 25 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Literacy Instruction and the Bilingual Learner

Professor Catherine Wallace, Institute of Education, University of London .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

Monday 18 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Schools as Places of Unselving: an educational pathology?

Dr. Michael Bonnett.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

Wednesday 06 November 2013, 16:30-18:30

Second Language Education Group

How can you help your students become autonomous learners? One-on-one counselling-based teaching through an autonomous learning model

Professor Akiko Kochiyama, Meisei University .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

Tuesday 05 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

How the European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages (EPOSTL) works in different European contexts

Barry Jones, Head of Modern Languages, Homerton College, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

Monday 28 January 2013, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Beyond multilingualism: Heteroglossia and social diversity

All welcome!

Professor Adrian Blackledge, MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism, University of Birmingham.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

Monday 22 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Second Language Education Group

The European Survey on Language Competences: Aims, Outcomes and Conclusions

All welcome!

Dr Neil Jones, ESOL Cambridge Assessment .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

Monday 15 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

‘Possible Dreams: Paulo Freire and Utopian Education’

Please contact Ewa Illakowicz (ei219@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

Professor Peter Roberts, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

Thursday 17 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

‘The Gentle Art of Teaching: Camus, Taoism and Education’

Please contact Ewa Illakowicz (ei219@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

Professor Peter Roberts, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

Thursday 10 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Positive psychology and positive education: Old wine in new bottles?

Please contact Ewa Illakowicz (ei219@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

Professor Kristjan Kristjansson, School of Education, University of Iceland.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

Monday 12 March 2012, 17:15-18:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

'Environmental concern, moral education and our place in nature'

Please contact Ewa Illakowicz (ei219@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

Dr Michael Bonnett, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

忌廉湯 [gei lim tong], 奶油浓汤 (nai you nong tang) and ‘cream soup’: the collection, representation and analysis of multidialectal data for a study of language attitudes in Guangzhou, China

All welcome!

Sihua Liang, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

Monday 20 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Medium of instruction policy and multilingual pupils’ experience of learning to read and write in primary school in Cameroon

All welcome!

Dr Genevoix Nana, Open University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

Monday 23 January 2012, 17:00-18:30