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SUMMARY:The 'social' in English language teaching: Situated accomplishment
 s - Professor Constant Leung\, King's College London
DTSTART:20141027T170000Z
DTEND:20141027T183000Z
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:The worldwide enterprise of English Language Teaching (ELT) ha
 s consciously attended to social conventions of use in its modelling of co
 mmunicative language. In this talk I will first examine the theoretical ba
 sis of the 'social' as it has been conceptualised in influential curriculu
 m frameworks and internationally marketed textbooks. It will be shown that
  social conventions of language use are often presented in terms of abstra
 cted and generalisable native speaker norms.  Drawing on data collected in
  ethnolinguistically diverse school and university classrooms in London\, 
 I will suggest that socially acceptable language use is fluidly negotiated
  by participants reflecting locally engendered sentiments.  My observation
 s and arguments will resonate with some of the analytic sensibilities show
 n in recent research in the fields of English as a Lingua Franca and Socio
 linguistics. The discussion will conclude with some remarks on the implica
 tions for curriculum content and assessment.\n \nBio\nConstant Leung is Pr
 ofessor of Educational Linguistics in the Centre for Language Discourse an
 d Communication\, Department of Education and Professional Studies at King
 's College London. He also serves as Deputy Head of Department. His resear
 ch interests include additional/second language education in ethnically an
 d linguistically diverse societies\, language assessment\, language policy
 \, and teacher professional development.  He is Associate Editor for Langu
 age Assessment Quarterly and Editor of Research Issues for TESOL Quarterly
 .
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, Ro
 om 1S3
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