Language Education Research in Eritrea

Events and Conferences

Forthcoming events

A two day seminar, Integration and Achievement in a Multilingual Europe: Languages for Learning and Life, will be hosted by the University of Leeds on 18 and 19 June 2008. 

The seminar aims to provide a forum where researchers, policymakers and practitioners can come together to discuss how discourses of integration interact with linguistic and cultural practices in multilingual communities and schools in different European countries.

As well as several invited presentations, the programme will include a number of workshop and working group sessions. Further information about the seminar, together with the booking form, can be found below. Please send all bookings and queries to Catherine Haworth.

Integration and Achievement in a Multilingual Europe seminar information (MS Word, 119K)

Integration and Achievement in a Multilingual Europe booking form (MS Word, 43K)

Previous events

  • The University of Leeds hosted a two day conference with the theme Discourse and Disciplinarity in Educational Research on 20-21 June 2007. The conference contributed to the debate on the nature of educational research and the grounds for its production by examining the significance of disciplinarity and linguistically informed approaches in educational research, from both an epistemological and discursive perspective.
  • Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) hosted a two-day seminar on 17-18 November 2006. The theme for the seminar was Languages in Contact: Contexts in Africa and the Diaspora.
  • The Centre for Language Education Research hosted the BAAL/Cambridge University Press Applied Linguistics Seminar Language, Migration and the Re-Theorization of Sociolinguistic Space: towards a research agenda for Applied Linguisticson 15 and 16 June 2006. You can download abstracts of all the papers featured in the seminar here: BAAL/CUP seminar abstracts (MS Word, 110K)
  • The University of Leeds hosted the sixth Researching and Applying Metaphor conference from 10-12 April 2006. Professor Lynne Cameron co-chaired this conference on the theme of Metaphor in the Real World, which also celebrated ten years of Researching and Applying Metaphor. Further details, including a full list of speakers, can be found on the conference website.
  • On 4 and 5 November 2005 the BAAL Language in Africa SIG held an inaugural event on the theme of Languages in the Community: Oral and Written Literacies. Further information about this event is available to download here: Language in Africa event programme and abstracts of papers.