CONVENTION CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19. READ THE ANNOUNCEMENT HERE. TESOL 2020 International Convention, 31 March to 3 April 2020 in Denver, Colorado, USA. The TESOL Convention offers professional development opportunities to English language educators at all levels from around the world. With more than 6,000 attendees and 1,000 sessions, the […]
VUW Linguistics Seminar: Learning formulaic sequences
From the School of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington Learning of pragmatic formulaic sequences through multimodal input: The role of genre and highlighting Seminar presented by Natasha Moskvina PhD student, University of Barcelona Can you learn pragmatic formulas by watching subtitled videos? What are the best conditions […]
CANTESOL: Tech tools unpacked
CANTESOL (Canterbury) Public Meeting: Tech Tools Unpacked The presentations at this public meeting will introduce technological learning tools that can be used to enhance learning in the classroom at the early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary levels. When: Thursday, March 19th, 2020, 4.30 –6.00 pm Where: Ara Institute of Canterbury, […]
VUW Linguistics Seminar: Children’s vocabulary
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From the School of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington Children’s productive use of academic vocabulary Seminar presented by Professor Richard Anderson Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois Can children acquire academic vocabulary words from participating in classroom discussion? If they can, how does the process work? A study […]
Prof. Alison Mackey public lecture
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Could more creative people be better second language learners? How do you define, measure and test creativity? Dr. Mackey (Georgetown University) will first introduce cognitive creativity, and discuss how the construct of cognitive creativity can be measured then briefly describe two empirical studies, one with 20 English L1 learners of […]
Prof. Alison Phipps public lecture
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The Well in Welcome Public lecture by Professor Alison Phipps, University of Glasgow. Presented jointly by the Centre for Global Migrations, University of Otago, and Victoria University of Wellington. This lecture examines the worldwide Refugees Welcome movement in the context of creating a flourishing, inclusive society founded on principles of […]