28.2528, Confs: Applied Ling/United Kingdom

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Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 12:01:35
From: Magdalena Sztencel [m.sztencel at yorksj.ac.uk]
Subject: Accessible Linguistics for Visually Impaired Students

 
Accessible Linguistics for Visually Impaired Students 
Short Title: ALVIS workshop 

Date: 30-Jun-2017 - 30-Jun-2017 
Location: York, United Kingdom 
Contact: Magdalena Sztencel 
Contact Email: m.sztencel at yorksj.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://store.yorksj.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/conferences-events/conferences/alvis-workshop 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Other Specialty: Modern Foreign Languages 

Meeting Description: 

The LIdIA Research Unit in the School of Languages and Linguistics at York St
John University invites you to the ALVIS Workshop: Accessible Linguistics for
Visually Impaired Students
30 June 2017, York St John University

The workshop offers a series of talks and discussions on topics ranging from
teaching phonetics, integrating visually impaired students in mainstream group
teaching, supporting learners of modern foreign languages, literacy practices
and forms of multimodal communication, sharing accessible materials and
production of accessible formats to accessible technology. These talks will be
complemented by two keynote presentations on Before a blind child becomes a
linguist and Tactile graphics in linguistics and beyond by Prof. Boguslaw
(Bob) Marek from the Catholic University of Lublin (Poland). Prof. Marek is an
international authority on teaching English to visually impaired students,
member of the editorial board of the British Journal of Visual Impairment and
holder of the Order of the British Empire for his work with blind children.
 
Keynote speaker: Prof. Boguslaw (Bob) Marek, Catholic University of Lublin
(Poland)
 
Cost: £40.00 (includes refreshments and lunch)
 
To register and for the draft programme and more information, see:
http://store.yorksj.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/conferences-events/conference
s/alvis-workshop
 
Please book now: places are limited!
 

Programme:

Venue: DG/019

 

8:30-9:00 Coffee and registration

9:00-9:15
Workshop opening

Keynote

9:15-10:00
Boguslaw Marek (Catholic University of Lublin)
Before a blind child becomes a linguist

Linguistics

10:00-10:30         
Anita Buczek-Zawila (Pedagogical University of Krakow)
Making do with what you have to make categories and classifications accessible
to visually impaired and sighted students

10:30-11:00
Sarah Martin, Alice Pennington, Nikki Swift, Magdalena Sztencel, Kate
Whisker-Taylor (York St John University, LIdIA)
Teaching phonetics to visually impaired students

Resources and Accessibility

11:00-11:30 
Katy Brickley (A2i Transcription Services)
Producing accessible linguistics – a transcription service perspective

11:30-12:00
Nic Streatfield & David Grey (York St John University)
>From Incision to Inclusion. How York St John University responded to DSA cuts
to establish inclusive practice.

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-1:30
Speaker TBC

Talk on accessible technology in Higher Education

Languages

1:30-2:00
Alison Hayes (York St John University, LIdIA)
Supporting a visually impaired learner of Spanish

2:00- 2.30
Beatriz Furtado Alencar Lima (Federal University of Ceara)
Literacies and discourses among visually impaired people in a city in the
North East of Brazil

2:30-3:00
Monika Szczech (University of Birmingham, TYFLO Research Group, VICTAR) &
Graeme Douglas (University of Birmingham,  VICTAR)
Let's touch the sound - some reflections on teaching foreign language
pronunciation to visually impaired learners of English

3:00-3:30 Coffee break

3:30-4:00
Malgorzata Jedynak (Wroclaw University, TYFLO Research Group) & Monika Szczech
(University of Birmingham, TYFLO Research Group, VICTAR)
Teaching foreign language pronunciation to visually impaired learners and what
can be done to improve the current practice

Keynote

4:00-4:45
Boguslaw Marek (Catholic University of Lublin)
Tactile graphics in linguistics and beyond

4:45-5:00
Workshop closure

6:30
Dinner (please note this is not included in the delegate fee and is an
optional extra)





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