Archive for September, 2011

Investigating Primary School Children’s Multilingual Identities

Posted by on September 3, 2011 * Comments(0)

Chaired by Fiona Copland, the UKLEF SIG papers session took place during the BAAL 2011 conference. I presented a paper on children’s multilingual and multi-ethnic identity in a primary school context. The audience was warmly participative and it was great to hear their comments and suggestions. Hania Salter-Dvorak raised the question about the conversations teachers have regarding [...]

category: Classroom, Multilingualism    

BAAL 2011

Posted by on September 3, 2011 * Comments(0)

The impact round table was led by Ros Mitchell and Guy Cook, Diane Larsen-Freeman and Jeanine Treffers-Daller as discussants. Diane Larsen-Freeman talked about how complexity theory should be applied when researching/talking/disseminating/investigating the different areas in applied linguistics. According to her, problems are not solved in a linear way but rather in a multifaceted manner; issues [...]

category: Linguistics