Events
CELT runs seminars, CPD events, and conferences throughout the academic year.
Symposium – Language education in the (post-)digital era – lessons learnt from the pandemic
What did we learn during the enforced move to online teaching and learning during the pandemic? What skills did we develop? What worked well and what didn’t work so well? What might the future of digital/hybrid language education look like? This one-day symposium will bring together staff working in HE language departments to reflect…
Symposium: Questioning Language Teaching Orthodoxy in Higher Education
This one-day symposium is an opportunity to discuss and critically reflect on existing beliefs and norms in language pedagogy in higher education and how normativity and biases that underpin language (in) education may be challenged. We are delighted Dr Martin Dewey, Kings College London, will deliver the keynote presentation. Call for Papers This symposium,…
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CELT Scholarship Lunch – March 2023
Are you aware of the work of the Committee for Foreign Language Assistants in Yorkshire (FLAC)? Do you know that LC/S have been supporting this excellent initiative since the 1920s? Come to our next scholarship meeting to learn more about FLAC and how our School and the Language Centre have been involved in their work….
WORKSHOP: Gender-inclusive language in language teaching: opportunities for the classroom
The recording of this talk is now available here. What is gender-inclusive and gender-neutral language? Why is it important? How does it work in different languages, particularly in languages with grammatical gender? How might we include gender-inclusive and gender-neutral language in language teaching? In this workshop, we will discuss the above questions and try…
CELT Scholarship Lunch – January 2023
Happy New Year, everyone! This is our first CELT Scholarship meeting for 2023, and the third for this academic year. In this meeting, colleagues in the Language Centre will be sharing reflections and insights into their scholarship projects and publications. Dr Milada Walková, or Millie – Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes – will talk…
CELT Scholarship Lunch – December 2022
In our second CELT Scholarship meeting, colleagues in the Language Centre and the School of Languages, Societies and Cultures will be sharing reflections and insights into their scholarship projects. Dr Becky Muradás-Taylor – Associate Professor of Languages and Linguistics – will tell us about her journey working on the OurLOTE Project promoting languages other than…
CELT Scholarship Lunch – November 2022
In our first CELT Scholarship meeting, colleagues in the Language Centre and the School of Languages, Societies and Cultures will be sharing insights into their journeys with publications. Dr Terry Bradford – Senior Lecturer (in French/Translation) – will tell us about his recent publication (by Wakefield Press) of his translation of Boris Vian’s Vercoquin et…
Language Centre Summer Conference 2022: Transformation and Transitions in Language Education
We are delighted to now be able to share with you an updated programme with the abstracts for our two plenary speakers for 2022. Language Centre Summer Conference 2022: Plenary speeches Opening plenary: Jeff Grabill First, Jeff Grabill, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Student Education, will speak on Design for Transformation in Higher Education, a topic which is undoubtedly relevant to…
WORKSHOP: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion scenarios for the language teacher in Higher Education
The University of Leeds 10-year strategy is committed to the principles of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), stating that “we should all be part of a learning and working environment that is free from barriers, regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disabilities, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity status, race, religion or belief,…
Film and drama in language teaching: Being creative to support language acquisition
In this short presentation, Leah Wang – Lecturer in Chinese – talks about using film and drama as a creative practice in language teaching and learning. The idea is through the performance of film plots or drama, students can actively engage in second language learning. Drawing from examples from teaching Chinese and English, the presentation…
Pedagogies of the Colloquial Register in Language Teaching and Learning in HE
The recordings of this event are now available: Part 1 and Part 2 Building on the ‘Embracing Linguistic Diversity’ event in April 2021, the Centre for Excellence in Language Teaching invites you to join us on Wednesday 9th February 14:00 – 16:00 for an online event on the theme of ‘Pedagogies of the Colloquial…
The Language Centre Summer Conference 2021: Curriculum Conversations: Agency, Collaboration and Leadership
The Language Centre Summer Conference will be hosted by the University of Leeds Language Centre on July 30th, 2021. The conference will have a dedicated day for live sessions, accompanied by pre-recorded presentations with space to comment and exchange ideas asynchronously. Online pedagogy at Leeds has transformed over the past year, foregrounding communication and collaboration…