29.1532, Confs: English, Applied Linguistics/UK

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-1532. Mon Apr 09 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.1532, Confs: English, Applied Linguistics/UK

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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 18:36:44
From: Urszula Clark [u.clark at aston.ac.uk]
Subject: Teaching grammar: from theory to policy and practice

 
Teaching grammar: from theory to policy and practice 

Date: 27-Apr-2018 - 28-Apr-2018 
Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom 
Contact: Urszula Clark 
Contact Email: u.clark at aston.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: https://baallkale.wordpress.com/cfp-aston-2018/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description: 

The two-day conference will bring together researchers, teachers and other
interested parties. Speakers include a member of the UK Houses of Parliament
Universities outreach team; secondary school teachers from Birmingham, London
and Reading and  EAL practitioners as well as academics.
 

BAAL LKALE SIG Programme:

27-28 April 2018, Aston University
Rooms MB404c and MB404d

Friday 27 April 2018

9:00-10:15:
Registration

10:15-10:30:
Welcome

10:30-11:15:
Kamil Trzebiatowski (KTLangspec EAL Training)
“What do secondary teachers know about grammar?”

11:15-12:00:
“Teaching grammar in the context of developing language and literacy across
the curriculum (LLAC) initiatives in secondary school settings: two case
studies”. 
Teachers from Birmingham and Reading. 

12:00-12:15: Coffee break

12:15-13:15:
Academic paper 1: Helen Norris
''Children’s learning of grammar at KS2: the roles of explicit and incidental
exposure”

Academic paper 2: Agneta Svalberg
“A visual, cognitive-functional approach to the mastery of tense and aspect in
English.”
 
13:15-14:00: Lunch

14:00-14:45:
Caitriona Fleming (UK Houses of Parliament) 
Engaging UK Parliamentarians with your research

14:45-15:45:
Ian Cushing and Rebecca Kellaway 
“Text world theory in the secondary school classroom” 

15:45-16:00: Coffee Break

16:00 -17:00: 
Academic paper 3: Michelle Stanley
“Using LiLAC to take SFL into the classroom.”

Academic paper 4: Dan Clayton
“Revitalising language study in the secondary English curriculum”. 

17:00: AGM

Saturday 28 April 2018:

10:00-10:45:
Gee Macrory (Manchester Metropolitan University)
“What do MFL students and teachers need to know about language?”

10:45-11:30:
Kerstin Mehler (MAZEM) 
“Outreach in linguistics: Working with educators”

11:30-11:45: Coffee break

11:45-12:45:
Academic paper 5: Kit Lawson
“What do you mean, a verb is not a doing word? “

Academic paper 6: Huw Bell & Steph Ainsworth
“What we know about when we know about grammar: problems of assessing
knowledge of grammatical terminology.” 

12:45-13:30: Lunch

13:30-13:45:
Academic paper 7: Nick Moore & Judy Axelby
“Playing Catch-Up: Linguistic Knowledge about Language in Tertiary Education.”

Academic paper 8: Phil Durant, Mark Brenchley & Victorina Gonzalez-Diaz
“The Noun Phrase in Children's Narrative Writing: Then and Now.”

14:30-14:45: Coffee break

14:45-15:30:
Claire Acevedo (The Open University)
“Scaffolding curriculum learning: a pedagogy for teaching knowledge about
language (KAL)”

15:30-16:15:
Lindsey Thomas (Buckinghamshire Learning Trust)
“The Buckinghamshire WRITE project”

16:45:
Wrap-up





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