LIL Hub events

Inclusive language: Investigating sociolinguistic agency through critical digital ethnography 

Date: 27 Feb 2025

Speaker: Dr Michele Saraiva Carilo, University of Edinburgh

The Political Economic Ideology of Language Planning in China

Date: 4 Mar 2025

Speaker: Dr Lin Pan, Beijing Normal University

Neural Correlates of Reading Performance in Bilingual and Monolingual Dyslexic Individuals: Insights from fMRI and fNIRS

Date: 27 Mar 2025

Speaker: Professor Aline Fay de Azevedo and Bernardo Avila, Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul

Stewart Alan Robertson Lecture Series: Translanguaging: What does it really mean?

Date: 29 May 2025

Speaker: Professor Jeanine Treffers-Daller

Developing a Comprehensive Emotion Word List and Validating a Productive Emotion Vocabulary Test for English L2 Speakers

Date: 5 Jun 2025

Speaker: Dr Csaba Szabo, University of Edinburgh

Motivation and attitude variation in Chilean primary English language learners from state-run schools in Concepción, Chile

Date: 25 Jan 2024

Dr Matthew Prior: The Critical Work of Emotion Labor in Language Education Research

Speaker:  Dr Matthew Prior, Associate Professor and Director of Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, and TESOL Programs in the Department of English at Arizona State University

Discrimination on online language tutoring platforms: Challenges and responses

Date: 7 Mar 2024

Speaker: Dr Nate Ming Curran, Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Communication at Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Researching Language Teachers' Assessment Literacy: A Synthesis of Research Studies in Colombia

Language Policy and Activism beyond Academia

Date: 2 May 2024

Presentation 1: The European Language Equality Network: the campaign for Europe's minoritised and endangered languages.

Speaker: Dr Davyth Hicks, Secretary-General, European Language Equality Network (ELEN)

Presentation 2: Challenging monolingual perspectives in a South American multilingual border region

Speaker: Dr. Isis Ribeiro Berger, Associate Professor at UNIOESTE (Western Paraná State University, Brazil)

Presentation 3: Language Policy Confidential: Seen and Unseen Work in the Service of Multilingualism

Speaker: Professor Francis M. Hult, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Radical Social Transformation, Translanguaging and Decolonial Language Education in Fast Changing Times: Voices from the Global South

Date: 21 Nov 2024

Speaker: Professor Claudia Hilsdorf Rocha, Unicamp, Brazil

Book Launch of Interculturality and the Munchausen Effect

Date: 5 Dec 2024

Speaker: Dr Ashley Simpson, University of Edinburgh, MHSES

A Cartography of Language Teacher Educator Motivation

Date: 3 March 2023

Speaker: Dario Luis Banegas, Lecturer in Education at Moray House School of Education and Sport

Respondents:

• Richard Chinn (Kings College London, UK)
• Takuya Kawamura (Hokuriku University, Japan) 

LIL Hub Seminar Series: Fiona Copland on English as a school subject

Speaker: Fiona Copland, Professor of TESOL at the University of Warwick

Promoting inclusive multilingual classrooms through an ELF perspective (on campus event)

Speaker: Lili Cavalheiro

Chair: Madeleine Campbell

The experience of trauma in domestic migrant workers’ storytelling: Sociolinguistic and psychological perspectives

Speaker: Professor Hans Ladegaard, Professor of the Department of English and Communication at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Chair: Dr Ashley Simpson

English for academic purposes (EAP) language teacher wellbeing

Date: 2 Nov 2023

Speaker: Christine Muir, Assistant Professor in Second Language Acquisition at the School of English, University of Nottingham

First Online TILTED Conference 2023: Towards intersectionality in language teacher education: First steps

Seminar: Rethinking culture through translation and translanguaging

• Zhu Hua, Professor of Language Learning and Intercultural Communication at The Institute of Education, UCL
• Dr Ashley Simpson, Lecturer in Language Education at The University of Edinburgh

Watch a recording of the Rethinking Culture seminar

Seminar: From the African Storybook to Global Storybooks: A Decolonial Identity Project?

Speaker: Dr. Bonny Norton (FRSC), University Killam Professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Canada

Key resources (open access):

• African Storybook
• Global Storybooks

Watch a video recording of the Storybooks seminar (on Zoom)

Seminar: Word and Image

Speakers:

• Susie Leiper, painter and calligrapher
• Richard Andrews, writer and academic 

Seminar: Ethical complexities when researching motivation in language education

Speaker: Ema Ushioda, Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick

Sexual and Gender Diversity in EFL Education: Common grounds, new pathways, critical encounters

Speaker: Thorsten Merse, Professor of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Education at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Co-operative Learning in the Foreign Language Classroom

Speaker: Andreas Bonnet, Professor of TEFL at the University of Hamburg, Germany

EMI Research: A chronological overview

Speaker: Joyce Kling, PhD, associate professor at the University of Copenhagen

Seminar: Bridging the researcher–practitioner divide

Speaker: Peter I. De Costa, Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Languages and Cultures and the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University

View a recording of the Bridging the Divide seminar (on Zoom)

Seminar: Student-Teachers’ Decolonizing Praxicum in COVID Times

Speaker: Mario López-Gopar (Ph.D., OISE/University of Toronto), professor at the Facultad de Idiomas of Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, Mexico

View the recording of the Decolonizing Praxicum talk

'We are not superheroines': exploring preservice EFL teachers' conceptions of professional responsibility

Speaker: Malba Barahona, Associate Professor at Facultad de Educación at Universidad Católica de Chile

Incorporating critical reflection in intercultural language teaching and learning

Prof Fred Dervin in conversation with Dr Ashley Simpson