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Diversity in the arts: why languages need to be part of the conversation |
Many languages and dialects spoken in British homes rarely make it onto the stage. In this episode of LinguaMania, we explore why linguistic diversity in the arts matters. |
Rajinder Dudrah, Mojisola Adebayo, Philip Bullock, Ashlee Elizabeth-Lolo |
29 May 2020 |
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The Multilingual Performance Project: celebrating languages through drama |
The Multilingual Performance Project (MPP) showcases and celebrates the multilingual nature of schools and demonstrates how multilingualism can interact creatively with teaching in the classroom, promoting both taught languages and community languages. |
Daniel Tyler-McTighe, Holly Bateman, Ann Poole, Eneida Garcia Villanueva |
15 May 2020 |
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How do metaphors shape our world? |
We tend to think of metaphors as poetic language, but we actually use them all the time in our everyday speech. But how do metaphors in different languages work? And can the metaphors we use affect our thinking? |
Katrin Kohl, Jeannette Littlemore, Lera Boroditsky, Zoltán Kövecses |
03 Apr 2020 |
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Why should we read translated texts? |
This episode explores what we lose or gain when we read a translated book. Are we missing something by reading the English translation and not the original language version? And what can the translation process tell us about how languages work? |
Jane Hiddleston, Laura Lonsdale |
16 Mar 2020 |
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Understanding our natural world: why languages matter |
What role do languages play in helping us understand and protect our natural world? Do the words we use when talking about our local flora and fauna matter? In this episode of LinguaMania, we explore the links between language and nature. |
Felice Wyndham, Karen Park, Andrew Gosler |
09 Mar 2020 |
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Representing the Dead |
Book at Lunchtime event |
Helen Swift, jessica Goodman, Philip Bullock, Neil Kenny |
26 Oct 2017 |
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“Forgotten Europe”: Translating Marginalised Languages |
Looking specifically at Modern Greek, Polish, Dutch, and Swedish, this event interrogates what it means to translate and publish marginalised and minor European languages into English. |
Peter Mackridge, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Paul Vincent, Sarah Death |
10 Feb 2017 |
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Pronoun Interpretation in the Second Language |
A talk from the Department of Education Public Seminar series given by Prof. Roumyana Slabakova (Universities of Southampton and Iowa) and Prof. Lydia White (McGill University). |
Roumyana Slabakova, Lydia White |
15 May 2014 |
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Studying Medieval and Modern Languages at St Hilda's College |
Helen Swift talks to Lucia Nixon, Tutor for Admissions, about why to study Medieval and Modern Languages at St Hilda's College. |
Helen Swift, Lucia Nixon |
04 Apr 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
Multi-Word Vocabulary and literacy development in children with English as an Additional Language |
Dr Vicky Murphy talks on research examining figurative vocabulary knowledge in primary school children with EAL, examining collocations (multiword phrases) and idioms and the relative contribution this type of word knowledge makes to literacy development. |
Vicki Murphy |
24 Mar 2014 |
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English as an Additional Language: Talking to Learn? |
Prof. Leung (King's College London) has worked for many years in the field of second/additional language education. His academic and research interests include classroom pedagogy, content and language-integrated curriculum development, language assessment |
Constant Leung |
03 Dec 2013 |
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Creative Commons |
Task as Workspace for Language Learning and Teaching |
Public Seminar delivered by Prof. Martin Bygate, University of Lancaster on 28/01/2013. A focus for Task Based Language Teaching research which might help the development of TBLT. |
Martin Bygate |
07 Feb 2013 |
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Tolkien and Languages: Ancient and Invented |
Interview with Dr Elizabeth Solopova from the Bodlian Library on the influence of medieval language on Tolkien's fiction. |
Stuart Lee, Elizabeth Solopova |
01 Dec 2008 |
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Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary: 'The Ring of Words' |
A discussion with the authors of 'The Ring of Words', an exploration into Tolkien's work as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary. |
Stuart Lee, Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, Edmund Weiner |
23 Oct 2008 |
