Pedagogical Linguistics

Our main aims currently are:

1. To promote a genuinely inclusive culture across the University through accessible language.  This will require:
   • Understanding better what makes academic language accessible to all students, whatever their background, and across all curricula;
   • Sharing that knowledge with academic and support staff across the institution.
2. To explore the usefulness of meta-linguistic awareness as an ‘enabler’ for language pedagogy.

This satellite is intended to complement scholarship activity (e.g, via CELT), and to provide networking opportunities within and between Schools. We hope to help enrich existing projects and enable the creation of new ones.  We are researchers and scholars from:

• the School of Education:  Loreto Aliaga-Salas, Mohammad Ahmadian
• Linguistics & Phonetics (LCS): Valentina Brunetto, Cecile De Cat, Gise Tome Lourido, Diane Nelson, Clare Wright
• the Language Centre (LCS): Jody Bradford, Alister Drury, Alexandra Holloway, Milena Marinkova, Deirdre McKenna, Rachel Robinson, Natasha Rust, Helen Sadig
• various other units within the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies: Bettina Hermoso-Gomez, Ruba Khamam

You can join this group via Teams.