EMC CPD Face-to-Face: A Level English Language – New Directions
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Availability -
Places available
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Price - £265 per place
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Location - EMC, SE1 8QW
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Duration - 10-3.30pm
This course focuses on the AQA English Language A Level and aspects of language diversity, change and discourses on Paper 2 (but will also be relevant for anyone teaching language variation, accents and dialects or aspects of language & identity for any A Level English Language specification). Drawing on work featured in the EMC New Directions download, and offering some new and updated studies, this course will give you a comprehensive overview of some of the most exciting work going on in sociolinguistics at the moment and a range of practical, classroom-based activities to help you link this work to the course.
We will cover:
- Up-to-date research on accent attitudes, changing dialects and emerging varieties
- Links to previous work in the field to help you embed these recent studies in a broader framework
- Ideas to help students organise ideas and answer questions
- Practical classroom activities for analysing media texts and language discourses
- The chance to quiz the authors of the New Directions pack.
All attendees will receive a printed copy of the New Directions pack and an Even New(er)Directions update with 5 new studies and Q&As, as soon as it comes out.
How to get to the English and Media Centre, 44 Webber Street, London, SE1 8QW
Once you are on Webber Street, look out for the big gates and a sign saying CLPE. You’ll see EMC’s sign to the right of the entrance.
National Rail:
- Waterloo and Waterloo East are within 10 minutes walk
- London Blackfriars is a 10-15 minutes walk
Underground:
- Southwark on the Jubilee Line
- Waterloo on the Jubilee, Bakerloo, Waterloo & City and Northern Lines
Buses:
- The following bus routes go close to Webber Street: 1, 139, 168, 171, 172, 344
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 Bluesky 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.
Amanda Cole
Dr Amanda Cole is a lecturer of sociolinguistics in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. Being born into a family of East Londoners in Essex, she has always been fascinated by Essex and London accents. Her research has focussed on the way people speak in Southeast England and how these different accents are judged. In particular, she has looked at the influence of the Cockney accent in Essex and accent prejudice towards these accents. She researches both language variation and accentism in relation to ethnicity, gender and class.
- Bookings for this course will close at 8am (London, UK) on Friday 20th June 2025 or when capacity is reached, whichever is the sooner.
- This course must be booked online.
- To book this course you must be signed into one of the following accounts:
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- Overseas
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- When the course has reached viable numbers, this will be indicated on the course page on the website and you may wish to book your transport.
Cancellations and amendments
- We require at least five working days’ notice of cancellation, otherwise your school will be invoiced for the full amount. However, if you are not able to attend and a colleague would like to take your place, this can be arranged at any time. (Please email [email protected] with the name and email address of the teacher.)
- We will indicate on the website when the course has reached viable numbers and will definitely run unless there are circumstances beyond our reasonable control. If you have booked your place before this threshold has been reached, we will email you to let you know. Before booking travel you may wish to wait until it has been confirmed on the website or by email that the course has reached viable numbers.
- If a course does have to be cancelled you will not be charged for the course and will receive a refund if you paid in advance. However, personal arrangements including travel, accommodation or hospitality relating to the course which have been arranged by you or your institution are at your own risk and not refundable by us.
- Our face-to-face courses are very interactive and cannot be live-streamed.