Dear all

 

Further tickets are released for the following event on next Friday. If you are interested, please sign up as as soon as possible.

 

On 12 June 2015, Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication, Birkbeck College, University of London will be hosting a one day conference as a finale to our year-long series of events to celebrate 50 years of Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck. The conference will consist of talks by former and current colleagues and a Roundtable discussion where eminent scholars will share their views and debate on the future of Applied Linguistics.   Please see below a provisional programme along with booking information.

 

Celebrating 50 years of Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck

 

Host: Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication, Birkbeck College, University of London

Date: 12 June, 2015

Venue: tbc after your registration

Booking: the event is free, but booking is required. Please visit eventbrite at  http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/50th-anniversary-conference-tickets-16020846784

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Programme

The full programme is availble at http://www.bbk.ac.uk/linguistics/about-us/events/bbk-local?uid=d4c4259e41e3285f51f15b652f6328b5

10:00am-10:30am
Arrival and registration (tea & coffee)

10:30am- 10:45am
Welcome speech 
Prof Miriam Zukas (Executive Dean, School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy)
Prof Greg Myers (BAAL Chair)

10:45am -11:10am
Mapping Applied Linguistics
Dr. Paul Meara (Swansea University)

11:10am-11:35am
Translanguaging Business
Prof. Zhu Hua, Dr. Agnieszka Lyons and Prof. Li Wei (Birkbeck and UCL IOE)

11:35am-12:00pm
What a difference the Channel makes! Language change in London and Paris.
Prof. Penelope Gardner-Chloros, Prof. Jenny Cheshire and Dr. Maria Secova (Birkbeck, Queen Mary and University of Bath)

12:00pm-12:25pm
Psychotherapy across Languages
Prof. Jean-Marc Dewaele and Dr. Beverley Costa (Birkbeck and Mothertongue)

12:25-1:30pm
Lunch and Poster Presentations

1:30pm-1:55pm
Foreign language teaching and learning in the 19th century
Prof. Marjorie Lorch (Birkbeck)

1:55pm-2:20pm
Language Policy and the United Nations: Diplomatic Baggage or Passport to Success?
Dr. Lisa McEntee-Atalianis (Birkbeck)

2:20pm-2:45pm 
Authorship and audience construction in three genres of knowledge dissemination
Dr. Bojana Petrić (Birkbeck)

2:45pm-3:10pm
Corpus Pragmatics: The effect of data collection methods on the production of requests in English
Prof. Ronald Geluykens (University of Oldenburg)

3:10-3:30pm
Break

3:30pm-4:30pm
Roundtable discussion on The Future of Applied Linguistics (Chaired by Professor Li Wei)
Panel: Prof. Claire Kramsch, Prof. Mike Baynham, Prof. Ben Rampton, Prof. Adam Jaworski, Prof. Tim McNamara, Prof. Greg Myers (UC Berkeley, University of Leeds, Kings College, University of Hong Kong, The University of Melbourne and Lancaster University)

4:30pm
Closing speech
AILA President Prof. Claire Kramsch

The recordings of previous events /blogs can be found by visiting http://www.bbk.ac.uk/linguistics/

 

Best wishes

Zhu Hua

 

Professor Zhù Huá (祝华), PhD

Professor of Applied Linguistics and Communication

Head, Department of Applied Linguistics & Communication

Assistant Dean, School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy

Birkbeck College, University of London

26 Russell Square, Bloomsbury

London WC1B 5DT, UK

 

 

 

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