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EMC CPD Face-to-Face: New Approaches to Non-fiction for A Level Lang Lit

Availability
Places available
Price
£245 per place
Location
EMC, SE1 8QW
Duration
10-3.30pm

Looking for new approaches to teaching non-fiction? Whether you’re new to teaching the combined English Language and Literature A Level or an experienced stylistician, this full day, in-person course will enrich your teaching of non-fiction texts, including spoken discourse. We’ll introduce you to a range of tools and adaptable resources for teaching English Language and Literature, developed in line with the most recent advances in linguistic scholarship. This is a cross-specification course.

  • An introduction to what’s special, different and exciting about Language & Literature.
  • Activities and resources to refresh and enrich your teaching of non-fiction, and including ways of exploring and teaching spoken discourse.
  • Ideas and activities for approaching non-fiction, with examples and activities tailored to popular A Level text types such as political speeches, letters, interviews, blogs, diaries, and reviews, drawing on the Awarding Body anthologies.

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 Jess Norledge

Jess Norledge

Jess is Assistant Professor in Stylistics at the University of Nottingham and the author of The Language of Dystopia. Jess’ research sits at the interface between English literature and English language, and she has particular expertise in the cognitive poetics of emotion, and worlds theories in dystopian fiction.

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Peter Stockwell

Peter Stockwell is Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Nottingham, and a Fellow of the English Association. He has written and edited over 20 books and over 100 articles and chapters, across the fields of language and literature, stylistics, applied linguistics, educational linguistics, science fiction, and surrealism.

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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.

 

  • Bookings for this course will close at 8am (London, UK) on Thursday 12th December 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, then Go to basket. 
  5. Complete the 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. We know people who are travelling to in-person courses by train like to book their tickets as soon as possible to take advantage of cheaper fares. This course has now reached viable numbers so we can confirm it will run (barring unforeseen circumstances, see below). (For details of timing, centre address and map, see right.)
  9. Please note, if a course has to be cancelled for reasons beyond our reasonable control, 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.

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.)
  • You will receive a notification when the course has reached viable numbers and will definitely run unless there are circumstances beyond our reasonable control. 
  • 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. You may wish to wait until you hear that the course has reached viable numbers before booking these.
  • Our face-to-face courses are very interactive and cannot be live-streamed.