33.1026, Confs: English; General Linguistics/United Kingdom

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-1026. Fri Mar 18 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.1026, Confs: English; General Linguistics/United Kingdom

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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 23:05:56
From: Bas Aarts [b.aarts at ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: English Grammar Day 2022

 
English Grammar Day 2022 
Short Title: EGD22 

Date: 08-Jul-2022 - 08-Jul-2022 
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact: Bas Aarts 
Contact Email: b.aarts at ucl.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/events/egd22.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description: 

A day of talks and discussion on aspects of English grammar

Are you sat down or sitting down while reading this? Have you got or do you
have a preference for one form over the other? English has a number of ways of
expressing the same concept, and with approximately 400 million mother-tongue
speakers and an estimated 1400 million non-native speakers it has become a
diverse, flexible language that continues to adapt, evolve – and provoke
strong reactions. You only need to search for #grammar on Twitter to see what
we mean!

Recent developments in the National Curriculum for England have placed grammar
in schools at centre stage once more, and divided opinion among politicians,
teachers, linguists and journalists, as well as the wider public, on how and
whether it should be taught. How have teachers implemented changes to their
teaching and learning programmes to adapt to the new syllabuses, assessment
criteria and tests? What resources are available for students, teachers and
the general public to learn more about English grammar, and how reliable are
they? What is or should be the role of English grammar teaching in schools
today and why is this so controversial? What do teachers, professionals,
academics and the general public feel is the cultural and educational
significance of knowledge about the language?

Join us at UCL for a day of talks and discussion, and feel free to ask our
panel of experts to explore any aspect of English grammar from ain’t to innit.

Presented by University College London, the British Library and the University
of Oxford.
 






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