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EMC CPD Face-to-Face: Child Language Acquisition

Availability
Places available
Price
£265 per place
Location
EMC, SE1 8QW
Duration
10-3.30pm

This full day in-person course, aimed at teachers of all specifications of the English Language A Level, is designed to help you support your students with work on spoken child language development. We will focus on both working with data and recent thinking and research, looking at ways that students can approach both exam-related and language investigation tasks.

In this session you will:

  • Look at an overview of research and thinking on spoken child language development
  • Develop approaches to child language data that can inform more detailed and thoughtful analysis
  • Explore potential language investigation projects based on child language data
  • Discover a range of resources to help you build up your own knowledge.

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


Photo of Dan Clayton

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.

 

Rachel Rudman

  • Bookings for this course will close at 8am (London, UK) on Friday 24th January 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:
    • UK Trust/Academy – Head Office (purchasing) 
    • UK Educator Admin (purchasing)
    • UK Teacher – Home Address Only
    • UK Private Individual
    • Overseas
  • If you have a UK Educator Standard account you will not be able to book the course. Sign in to your account and add it to your Wishlist. See the list of people able to book courses at your organisation by clicking ‘My Account’, then ‘Our Admin Users’.
  1. Click 'Book now’ (right-hand column).
  2. Add the number of places you need. 
  3. Fill in the names and email addresses of the people attending. To secure your place, please make sure you add the attendee details immediately and checkout within 24 minutes. Otherwise the booking will expire and you will have to begin the process again. The joining information and post-course email will be emailed to both the person booking the course and the attendee.
  4. Click submit and then Go to basket.
  5. Checkout. 
  6. Please pay by card if you can. If you need to pay by invoice, you must be signed into a ‘UK Educator Admin User' account. You will not be able to request an invoice if you have one of the short courses in your basket at the same time. These must be paid for in advance.
  7. Once you have booked your place, you will see a screen indicating your order has been successful. You may want to make a note of your order number. The person making the booking and the attendee will also receive an automatic acknowledgement of your booking.
  8. 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.