EMC CPD Online: Next Steps in A Level English Language (2) – Baby Steps and New Directions
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Availability -
Places available
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Price - £45 per place
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Location - Online
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Duration - 2-4.30pm
This webinar is included in the EMC Webinar Package Spring 2025. Click here for details of the package and to order for your department. See 'Further Details' for how to join this webinar if your department has bought the package.
This afternoon webinar is aimed at new and relatively new teachers of A Level English Language. The focus will be on child language development and language variation with two linguists and two teachers offering ideas for how to move your teaching on from the basics. The webinar is ideal for those who have attended one of Dan’s Starting to Teach A Level Language courses or the previous ‘Next Steps’ webinar but is also suitable for anyone looking to enhance their subject knowledge.
In this session you will:
- Get an introduction to recent thinking in the field of child language development
- Look at how to approach child language data with students
- Explore new research into language diversity and variation, linking it to older more established work.
- Consider different activities and forms of assessment for students.
This course will be recorded but attendees will not be audible or visible.
Online, via Zoom. Details of how to join will be sent before the session.
- If relevant, course materials will be sent the day before the course in the email with your joining instructions. Please either print these out or have them available on screen during the session.
- After the session you will receive the PowerPoint presentation, any resources used on the course and a £10 voucher* to use against any purchase on www.englishandmedia.co.uk
- Vouchers can only be redeemed online.
- Only one voucher can be used per purchase.
- Vouchers expire after 6 weeks.
- After the session you will receive a link to register to watch a recording of this session on-demand until 30th April 2025.
* £10 voucher is not available to those joining the session as part of a webinar package.
How to join this course if your department has bought the webinar package
- To join the live session, register using the registration link sent to the departmental key contact. You can register to join the live session right up to the start of the webinar. Use the unique link sent by [email protected] to join the webinar on the day.
- To watch the recording on-demand, register using the on-demand registration link sent to the departmental key contact the day after the live session. This email will also include the PowerPoint presentation and any additional resources.
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 peopale 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.
Rachel Rudman
Rebecca Woods
Dr Rebecca Woods is a Senior Lecturer in Language and Cognition at Newcastle University. She researches child acquisition of syntax and pragmatics, and how users of different languages ask questions. She’s also interested in co-speech gesture, wordplay, and how children learn to tell jokes.
This webinar is included in the EMC Webinar Package Spring 2025. Click here for details of the package and to order for your department. See 'Further Details' for how to join this webinar if your department has bought the package.
Booking this course as a 'one-off' purchase.
- Bookings for this course will close at 8am (London, UK) on Monday 10th March, or when capacity is reached, whichever is the sooner.
- This course is part of our 2 for 1 offer
- Book a place on this course and you’ll be sent a voucher code entitling you to book a further place on the same course for a colleague at your school. Your code will be emailed to you as soon as we have received your booking.
- Please note: bookings for this course close at 8am on Monday 10th March. The 2nd free place must be booked before the closing date, so please make sure you give yourself enough time!
- Your voucher can only be redeemed online and is only eligible against this course.
(Any issues please email Lucy.)
- This course must be booked and paid for online. Payment by invoice is not available for this session. Please note: your fee is non-refundable.
- To book this course you must be signed into one of the following accounts (registering an account first if you need to):
- 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’.
- Click 'Book now’ (right-hand column).
- Add the number of places you need.
- 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.
- Click submit and then Go to basket.
- Checkout. (Payment by invoice is not available for this session.)
- IF TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OUR 2 FOR 1 OFFER, PLEASE WAIT TO BE SENT YOUR CODE BEFORE BOOKING YOUR 2ND PLACE.
- 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 receive an automatic acknowledgement of your booking.
- Instructions on how to join the course (including Zoom login details) will be sent from [email protected] for the first time on the day bookings close. Reminders, including any course handouts, will be sent the day before and one-hour before the course. Please check your junk or promotions folder. Still no luck? Email us before 1pm on the course day [email protected].
Cancellation and amendments
- Afternoon and twilight webinars must be paid for by card at the time of booking.
- The fee is non-refundable.
- However, the webinars are recorded. Anyone who books a place on the course will be sent a link to register to access the recording of the webinar until 30th April 2025, regardless of whether they attended live.