emagazine Conference for A Level Language: Wednesday 6th December 2023, Friends House, London
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Date - 06 Dec 2023
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Availability -
Bookings closed
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Price - £22 per student
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Location - Friends House, London
Programme & Speakers
The conference will begin at 10.20am and finish by 3.30pm.
10.20am | DAN CLAYTON Dan Clayton welcomes you to the Conference. |
10.30-11.10am | PROFESSOR TAMAR KEREN-PORTNOY, UNIVERSITY OF YORK
What does moving your jaw muscles have to do with memory, mind and language? A look at child language development. I will describe past research which shows that actions and gestures that we think of as ‘just’ physical, unrelated to ideas and abstract meanings, affect how babies listen to language, what they pay attention to, and how they learn words. I will discuss these findings in the context of the debate between the usage-based and the nativist approach to language development. I will then describe how the insights from this research led us to design a new intervention to support speech and language in babies with Down syndrome and show results from the first study to pilot this intervention. |
11.15-11.55am |
DR LUCY JONES, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
Doing gender, queering language: An overview of language, gender and sexuality This lecture will introduce the field of language, gender and sexuality. From the origins of feminist linguistics to current scholarship on trans and nonbinary identities, it will explain key concepts including performativity and indexicality. It will also explore critical approaches including queer theory and intersectionality as they have been applied to research in this area. |
11.55-12.25pm |
Break |
12.30-1.10pm | PROFESSOR ROB DRUMMOND, MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
Why we are what we speak: what everyone should really know about spoken language The relationship between spoken language and identity, or how we speak and who we are, is a fundamental one. Our voice provides all sorts of insights into who we are, how we might be perceived, and how we in turn perceive others. In this talk I’ll explore some of the features of this relationship, and discuss some of the reasons why we would all be better off if people had just a little bit more sociolinguistic understanding and awareness. |
1.10-2pm |
Lunch |
2-2.40pm | PROFESSOR DEBORAH CAMERON, WORCESTER COLLEGE, OXFORD
Misogyny in language: extremism or mainstream? What links the supposed harmlessness of jokes, adverts and greeting cards with examples of so-called 'extreme' misogynist discourse, like Andrew Tate's videos and incel forum chat? In this talk I will focus on the language of mostly banal everyday misogyny in popular discourse and what it shares with the 'new' language of misogyny. |
2.45-3.25pm | DR SONIA MORAN PANERO, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON
The hidden meanings of English as a Lingua Franca: re-shaping and re-signifying English from the Spanish-speaking world In this talk I explore how English as a Lingua franca research has radically transformed our understanding of who is a ‘good’ non-native speaker of English nowadays, and how we judge what counts as legitimate variation or errors. Moving away from approaches that have historically treated multilingual learners as passive or failed ‘imitators’, ELF studies reposition speakers like myself as agents capable of reshaping English to suit our own social, symbolic and communicative needs. I draw from my work with students from Spanish-speaking contexts to investigate how they assign social meanings to ‘non-native-like’ uses of English, and the implications that such indexical associations have for their identity presentation and their own linguistic behaviour. |
3.30pm | DAN CLAYTON Dan brings the Conference to an end. |
Getting to the Conference
Train
The closest train stations are Euston and Kings Cross.
Tube (underground)
Tube stations within a 5 to 15-minute walk include: Euston, Euston Square, Kings Cross, Goodge Street, Russell Square, Tottenham Court Road and Warren Street. The closest tubes are Euston and Euston Square.
Bus
Numbers 10, 18, 30, 73, 205 and 390 pass the door whilst 59, 68, 91, 168, and 253 stop nearby.
Travelling by Minibus or Car?
Friends House is within a meter parking zone. Charges must be paid Monday to Friday 08:30 -18:30. Please note that Friends House is within the congestion charge zone. For details of how to pay here.
Coaches
Coaches may stop outside Friends House to drop students off.
Parking
There is no on-site parking available at Friends House. The local roads have metered parking bays and fall within TfL charging zones. TFL driving information is available on the TFL website. There are three disabled blue badge parking bays located in Endsleigh Gardens.Information about Camden Council parking is available on the Council's website.
Getting to the Conference
Train
The closest train stations are Euston and Kings Cross.
Tube (underground)
Tube stations within a 5 to 15-minute walk include: Euston, Euston Square, Kings Cross, Goodge Street, Russell Square, Tottenham Court Road and Warren Street. The closest tubes are Euston and Euston Square.
Bus
Numbers 10, 18, 30, 73, 205 and 390 pass the door whilst 59, 68, 91, 168, and 253 stop nearby.
Travelling by Minibus or Car?
Friends House is within a meter parking zone. Charges must be paid Monday to Friday 08:30 -18:30. Please note that Friends House is within the congestion charge zone. For details of how to pay here.
Coaches
Coaches may stop outside Friends House to drop students off.
Parking
There is no on-site parking available at Friends House. The local roads have metered parking bays and fall within TfL charging zones. TFL driving information is available on the TFL website: tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/. There are three disabled blue badge parking bays located in Endsleigh Gardens. Information about Camden Council parking is available on the Council's website: www.camden.gov.uk/where-to-park.
Arrangements on the Day
Registration
Registration will open at 9.30am and we ask you to be in your seats for 10.10am so we can begin promptly at 10.20am.
Entrance is via the Euston Road entrance to Friends House.
Teachers Accompanying Students
We expect all students to be accompanied by a teacher. There should be a minimum of 1 teacher per 10 students.
We request that teachers meet their students in advance, register as a group and sit with their groups of students. Teachers are responsible for ensuring that their own students maintain acceptable standards of behaviour in the auditorium and in the Friends House building.
Lunch and Refreshments
The cafe at Friends House is open from 8am.
You and your students will be responsible for providing your own lunches. There are sandwich shops in the area immediately behind Friends House and plenty of food outlets across the road at Euston Station.
There are spaces outside for students to eat their packed lunch but no indoor spaces.
Dan Clayton
Dan Clayton is an education consultant at the EMC and specialises in English Language work at A Level and language education across the secondary curriculum. He has been a teacher of A Level English for over 20 years, senior examiner and moderator for different awarding bodies and is author/editor of many books for A Level English Language, including ones for Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press & Routledge, as well as publications for the EMC and NATE. Dan has worked closely with many universities to help develop links between A level and HE, worked as a research fellow at UCL and runs the EngLangBlog site and @EngLangBlog twitter account, as well as being part of the Lexis Podcast team. He has also taught Media and Film Studies and is Associate Editor of emagazine and MediaMagazine.
Lucy Jones
Lucy Jones is an Associate Professor in Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham. Her research focuses on LGBTQ+ identities as they are produced through language, with particular focus on young people, as well as how sexism, homophobia and transphobia are produced through media discourse.
Sonia Moran Panero
Dr Sonia Morán Panero is a Lecturer at the University of Southampton and a member of the Centre for Global Englishes research. Her work focuses on sociolinguistic aspects of the spread of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and the implications of critical approaches in English language education.
Deborah Cameron
Deborah Cameron is Professor of Language and Communication at Oxford University, UK. Her publications include The Myth of Mars and Venus, Verbal Hygiene, The Feminist Critique of Language and her forthcoming book, Language, Sexism and Misogyny is published by Routledge in December 2023. She regularly contributes to broadcasts and podcasts on language and gender, and blogs at Language: a feminist guide.
Rob Drummond
Rob Drummond is Professor of Sociolinguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University. His latest book, You’re All Talk: Why we are what we speak, was published in October this year.
Tamar Keren-Portnoy
Professor Tamar Keren-Portnoy is a Lecturer in Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York. She is primarily interested in studying syntactic and phonological development in infants and the contribution of sound production (babble or speech) to the way infants and toddlers listen to language, perceive and remember new words, and to early word production.
Prices, Booking and Cancellations
Prices
- The fee is £22 per student, with one free teacher place as follows: 1-9 students = 1 free teacher place; 10-19 students = 2 free teacher places and so on.
- You will be automatically be allocated the correct number of teacher places and will need to provide details for each teacher attending. (These details can be amended, if necessary, when you tell us final numbers on 7 November.)
- For additional teachers, or teachers attending without students, for their own interest or CPD, the charge is £50 each.
Booking
- Book online and choose to pay by invoice.
- Conference places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
- Please note: we are unable to take provisional bookings.
- Please do not make final travel arrangements until your final booking has been confirmed and we have contacted you to let you know that you have definitely been allocated places.
- To book this conference you must be signed into one of the following accounts (registering an account first if you need to):
- UK Educator Admin (purchasing)
- UK Teacher – Home Address Only
- UK Private Individual
- Overseas
- If you have a UK Educator Standard (non-purchasing) account you will not be able to book the conference. Sign in to your account and add it to your Wishlist. See the list of people able to book conferences at your organisation by clicking ‘My Account’, then ‘Our Admin Users’.
Cancellations
- Cancellations or amendments can be made without charge until 5pm on Wednesday 8th November 2023.
- All subsequent cancellations will be dealt with in the following way:
- Cancellations after 5pm on Wednesday 8th November 2023 and up to 5pm on Wednesday 22nd November 2023: 50% charge
- Cancellations after 5pm on Wednesday 22nd November 2023: 100% charge.
Please note: We will be unable to make refunds in the case of weather, transport difficulties or circumstances beyond our control. Should EMC need to cancel the conference, a full refund will be on offer. (However, personal arrangements including travel, accommodation or hospitality relating to the conference which have been arranged by you or your institution are at your own risk and not refundable by us.)
Changes to bookings and waiting list
If you have already secured places for this conference and need to make changes to your booking, please send final confirmation of the number of tickets you require on 8 November only. We will send an automatic reminder to submit this information the day before it is due. We cannot process any information which is sent before 8 November.
The waiting list will be updated on 9 November and if you've registered interest in additional places you will be notified that week if any have become available then.
Bookings closed
At a glance
- Date
- 06 Dec 2023
- Bookings Close
- 04.00PM on 01 Dec 2023
- Location
- Friends House, London