Being able to speak more than one language is an advantage in its own right. The capability to communicate in another language can boost one’s career prospects, it makes it…Read More >
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Trouble in Headlines
Our headlines are currently riddled with selective uses of the passive voice. Passive voice means that it isn’t clear who is doing the deeds mentioned. “Headlines are… riddled” rather than…Read More >
Fairbrother Lecture: Living with More than One Language – The Effects of Bilingualism on Mind and Brain
Dr Toms Voits, UiT The Arctic University of Norway Language is frequently in the headlines, from worries about people speaking too many languages or too few, to questions of whether…Read More >
International Migrants’ Day 2020
To celebrate International Migrants’ Day 2020, on its website the United Nations claims that ‘throughout human history, migration has been a courageous expression of the individual’s will to overcome adversity…Read More >
Talk of war in COVID-19 coverage may be hiding testing failings
Everyday we are bombarded with metaphors of war from the media reporting on COVID-19. Dr Sylvia Jaworska from the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, asks whether the differences…Read More >
Cross-talk between language and executive control in neurodegenerative diseases
CeLM Seminar Cross-talk between language and executive control in neurodegenerative diseases by Marco Calabria (Center for Brain and Cognition, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain, Barcelona) Date Tues…Read More >
People with depression use language differently – here’s how to spot it
The ‘language of depression’ can be spotted using computer analysis which looks for patterns of words used by those who are suffering from the disorder, explains PhD researcher Mohammed Al-Mosaiwi in…Read More >
“People who learn German like shouting because that’s what Germans do”
CeLM Seminar “People who learn German like shouting because that’s what Germans do” by Heike Krüsemann (University of Reading) Date Tues 9th January 2018…Read More >
CeLM Seminar – ‘ Speaking foreign languages from the heart ‘
by Jon Andoni Duñabeitia (BCBL) http://www.bcbl.eu/people/staff/jon-andoni-dunabeitia/ Date Tues 14th November 2017 Time 16h15 – 17h15 Venue Edith Morley 127 Native languages are typically acquired in emotionally neutral academic environments….Read More >
Workshop: Language impairment in bilingual children
This free event organised by the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) will bring together researchers and practitioners from France, the UK, and the USA who work with bilingual children…Read More >
