Future Seminars

Michaelmas Term 2009

November 12th Symposium
4.00-6.30
Seminar Room H

20 minute presentations by doctoral students:

Alaster Douglas CHAT concepts in my doctoral research: capturing the object by studying tools-in-use
Hannah Grainger-Clemson ‘To Be or Not To Be’: a discussion of drama as a pedagogical tool
Sheena Wagstaff Relational agency within dyadic doctoral supervisory relationships

Followed by a discussion of the issues arising from the papers.
Discussant: Dr Suzy Edwards, Visiting Research Fellow


Friday 11th December
11.00am -12.30pm
Seminar Room G

Speakers: Professor Min Zhan Lu and Professor Bruce Horner, University of Louisville

Convened by Viv Ellis

The seminar will focus on the emergence of ‘China English’, read as a response to the global spread of Standard(ized) Written English, in order to delineate the ways in which listening to the logic of emergent forms of English draws on - and contributes to - trans-cultural approaches to the teaching and study of language. The presenters will call for broadening the tradition within English studies (Labov, Shaughnessy, Smitherman, Bartholomae, Ohmann, Kachru) to include learning to grasp the logic in the discursive practices of marginalized users of English worldwide.