Language teaching events (47)

The Sixth Corpus Linguistics Conference will take place from 19-22 July 2011. It will be organised and hosted by the Centre for Corpus Research, University of Birmingham. The theme of the conference is Discourse and Corpus Linguistics. The purpose of the Centre for Corpus Research is to further the use of text and corpus analysis in research, teaching and learning. The Centre provides...

Grammar for SFL prepares you for ... After completing the course there will be treated as teaching strategies and learning of Spanish as a foreign language needed to develop an educational activity in this area successfully. It is aimed at final year students or graduates of the branch of Humanities (Philology, Philosophy, History, Art, Library, Translation, Journalism ...) who...

Cutting Edges: English and language Studies Annual Conference is a conference for those researching and working in the fields of TESOL, modern languages, culture and education. The theme this year is on 'Creativity in language teaching and teacher training', and will include the following topics: Innovation and creativity in classroom practice and course...

The Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and English language is organized by postgraduate students under the auspices of the Department of Linguistic and English language, Lancaster University. The postgraduate conference aims to offer the opportunity for postgraduate students from various areas in linguistics and language teaching/assessment to...

The conference aims to show-case new training provision, techniques, technologies, methodologies and research in language teaching, with an emphasis on the advanced or research-focussed learner. Particular emphasis will be on the languages of the Wider World: Africa, East and South Asia, Russia, Central Europe, and the Arab World....

Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is an increasingly popular framework for understanding and analysing language in use. At the very foundation of SFL is the view of language as a social function. As Halliday states, “the internal organization of language is not arbitrary but embodies a positive reflection of the functions that language has evolved to serve in...

The development of the area of teaching Spanish as second and foreign language in recent years in our region and in Argentina, in particular, made by universities is considered essential to address and analyze the problems generated around it. One point of concern has been how to teach Spanish, what dialect, what cultural content, how to level students for organizing the class. In a...

The Seventh Congress of the Official Schools of languages of Spain will be held in Madrid on the occasion of the commemoration of 100 years of existence of this public institution. Central language School opened in 1911 and in its first year had 431 students who studied French, English and German. Nearly a hundred years later, the official language schools are a network of...

The International Federation of Associations of Teachers of Spanish with the help of the International Courses of the University of Santiago de Compostela held during the dates 17, 18, 19 and April 20, 2011, in buildings of the Faculty of Philology of the above University of Santiago, the IV International Congress on the theme: teaching Spanish in an intercultural world. Pedagogical days....

The meeting is designed to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of current and innovative research on language acquisition and processing, neuroscience of language, acquired and developmental disorders, computational linguistics and natural language processing, in all areas of system-phonology ingüístico , morphology, syntax, semantics, and its links with other...