On June 26 Paul Baker will be kicking off the Public Lecture series that we Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni are organising to celebrate the department turning 50. If you're around Lancaster, come hear all about Polari: All welcome! Register: trybooking.com/uk/events/land… More info: lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/50…

Are you a UK teacher of A-level Lang/Lit? Whether you are starting out, or looking for new ideas, come to the free CPD training day and launch of our online resource The Nottingham Stylistics Toolkit! Together with the English & Media Ctr Tues 25 June tinyurl.com/NottsToolkit

I'm in this! You should listen to it (on or after the 13th June). We talk about dogs and toilets.

Interested in how Shakespeare would have pronounced the words of his plays? And how we can know about this? There's still time to register for this year's Babel lecture, hosted at Northumbria Uni on the 13th of June: northumbriaenglish.org/2024/05/31/the… #language #literature #Shakespeare

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How would Shakespeare's plays have sounded when they were first performed? Find out by attending (online or in person) this year's Babel lecture next Thursday (13th June) northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-… #shakespeare #English #language #literature

Join us for the next York English Language Toolkit Workshop! Details below:

Hey if you like listening to me, especially when I talk about linguistics, you can do it tomorrow bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

There's still time to register for our free (and fully hybrid) CPD workshop on 15th July: englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/workshops One of the case studies you'll hear about will be Sam Hellmuth's work on how we use prosody to structure our talk (looking specifically at the late Queen👑)

Don't forget about our free CPD workshop taking place on 15th July! There's still time to register 👉 englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/workshops One of our four linguistic case studies will be Eytan Zweig's research on changes in the syntax and semantics of 'be like' quotatives

Our 2024 CPD workshop for A-Level EngLang teachers is taking place this time next week! 🗓️ Registration is free and still open: englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/workshops One of the case studies you'll hear about on the day will be Joe Pearce's work on voice quality/pitch and gender ⚧️

Not long now till this year's CPD workshop on Monday 🥳 Fully hybrid so you can still sign up and attend online - lots of interesting talks and classroom materials 🧑‍🏫 tiny.cc/yelt2024 The final talk of the day will be James Tompkinson on transcription in police interviews

For those attending our Toolkit workshop on Monday online, joining instructions have just landed in your inboxes (waited for half time) 📨

Alas, football's not coming home after all ⚽️😭 - but the York English Language Toolkit is! We're all excited to welcome teachers to Language & Linguistics @ UoY today (and online!) for our annual CPD workshop. Check out our exciting programme of talks here: englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/workshops/cpd2…

York English Language Toolkit 💙🎓 excited to be here for the 11th year, listening to 4 research talks #EnglishLanguageAlevel 🤩

#YorkCPD2024 covering all the (AQA) bases! With thanks to EngLangBlog for reflecting on how to put the toolkit case studies to work in practice

Very excited to have worked with Beatrice Szczepek Reed on this chapter for the New Perspectives in Interactional Linguistic Research volume: Turn continuation in yeah/no responding turns Glottalization and vowel linking as contrastive sound patterns jbe-platform.com/content/books/…

Lovely teachers! Will your new class be multilingual, and would you like ideas on how to make everybody feel welcome from the start? Here's a 🧵w/ activity ideas, w/ links to lesson plans from the Lost Wor(l)ds project, facilitating children to thrive using all their languages ❤️