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: Huahui Zhao, Gabriela Valenzuela Farias, Thomas Hammond
• Linguistics & Phonetics (LCS): Cecile De Cat, Clare Wright
• the Language Centre (LCS): Jody Bradford, Alister Drury, Milena Marinkova, Rachel Robinson, Natasha Rust, Helen Sadig, Milada Walkova, Deak Kirkham, Laetitia Monbec
• various other units within the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies: Bettina Hermoso-Gomez, James Wilson, Maria Garcia-Florenciano, Sascha Stollhans, Sofia Martinho, Ying Peng
• Leeds University Library: Suzy Beck
• Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence: Gabriel Cavalli

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